…a $200 trillion economy, annual gas use could peak at 30 x 1012 m3, an order of magnitude above oil’s peak use. Absolute gas use should peak about the year 2060….
…Great Reversal, I explore the areas in human use for cities, logging, and farming and search the centuries for principles and trends to forecast land use in the latter part…
…the economic limit. Moreover, because of its limited storage, electricity is not good for dispersed uses, such as cars. Nevertheless, the share of primary energy used to make electricity has grown…
…maturity, heat and drought tolerance, input needs, and end uses; innovation in planting and spacing; collecting and recycling irrigation run-off; soil moisture conservation; better moisture-use efficiency and improved use of…
…variable cost combine with base-loads plants with high capital cost and low variable cost to determine the current usage level. Although the utilization factor surely has a logical upper limit…
…this time, I want to make another point about predictability of technological evolution. Industries such as the chemical and airframe industries use learning curves giving the cost evolution of a…
…use of indirect indicators. In the case of monitoring behavior, most agreements to control atmospheric emissions make extensive use of indirect indicators because the technology for measuring gaseous emissions accurately…
…fresh water from one basin in another benefits from both markets aimed to encourage high valued uses and regulation to assure protection of poor consumers. Adaptation makes sense because, even…
…process where female fertility is inhibited because octogenarians overcrowd the area. Certainly fertility in terms of population is diminished because of the dilution by infertile people. But, in terms of…
…cities with land prices of Tokyo, Singapore, Frankfurt, or Paris. Sales of wood in cities today are, of course, limited to an occasional decorative log providing more emotional than physical…