Maiden Voyage of SaVANnah
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 25, 2017
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This is Part 3 of a 4 Part series on the sustainability of Alaska in a post-Collapse World, and how to make it happen.
Read Part 1 HERE. Read Part 2 HERE.
In our last episode of the Alaska Sustainability & Resilience series, we shifted the focus of the location of the first SUN☼stead from South Carolina to either Alaska or the Pacific Northwest of OR, WA, ID and MT. This due mainly to the MONEY problem of raising enough FRNs to pull off a project like SUN☼ in the relatively expensive neighborhood of the East Coast of the FSoA. Besides the expense were the problems of the presence of Nuke Puke reactors in the neighborhood, plus the fact this area has already been developed for the most part around the unsustainable Suburban Car dependent model. So, Plan B has been implemented to look for cheaper land in a less populated area with NO NUKES!
Since I LIVE in Alaska and am currently twiddling my thumbs waiting for my SSA Hearing to resolve the dispute between […] Continue Reading…
Summer Solstice 2017 in my Crippled Life at the End of Industrial Civilization
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 21, 2017
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Back home in the digs after a hellishly long, exhausting and frustrating day. I'm was going to just write a couple of posts Inside the Diner on this, one in the Stealth Van thread on the Trailer Purchase issues and then another one for the RE is Dying thread (Diners Only!), but after writing the first couple of paragraphs I realized this was Blog Length material and should be up for the Blog Lurkers to read as well. So, ater a nap on the return home, I knocked this one out in one night. It covers one horrific day in the life of a cripple at the end of the Age of Oil and Industrial Civilization
The issues began early with the trip in. I woke up around 5AM with the itches, even though I set my alarm for 6:30. I killed some time on the net and scratched and rubbed, then changed into more respectable clothing for meeting doctors and trailer sellers. Then around 6:30 I felt drowsy again and went to […] Continue Reading…
Seeking a SUN☼stead
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 18, 2017
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This is Part 2 of a 4 Part series on the sustainability of Alaska in a post-Collapse World, and how to make it happen.
Read Part 1 HERE.
I'm taking off for a shakedown cruise of the new Stealth Van tomorrow, and will be keeping a diary of the trip, and will publish the whole thing after I get back. Meanwhile, I've given the trip a whole additional purpose besides just checking the gas mileage and reliability of the SV, I am going to do some Land Shopping for the first SUN☼stead!
Our project in South Carolina has stalled, it's generally speaking out of budget for where we are right now financially. Without some investors from Inman, it's just not going to happen there. So far, although SUN☼ got a very positive response from the Movers & Shakers in Inman, to date nobody has ponied up one thin dime to make the project happen there. So it's time to move to Plan B.
If we can't get the money together for a demonstration property in SC, I'm […] Continue Reading…
Greenie Techno-Cornucopianism
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 14, 2017
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I regularly cross-post the work of Albert Bates here on the Diner. He's a true Hero of the Revolution, going back to the 1970s when The Farm was founded as part of the Back to the Land Movement of the era. The Farm has gone through its ups and downs over the intervening decades, but unlike many other experiments from the era it does still exist, and AB is still there. Well, at least he is when he's not Jet Setting around the world to attend Climate Conferences or give Permaculture courses. Albert takes a decent amount of criticism for this, since flying around in Jet Planes is one of the most unsustainable aspects of our industrial civilization, and on a per capita basis is arguably the MOST unsustainable.
AB defends his Global Jet Setting by planting trees, with the assumption that over the lifetime of the tree, it will soak up more carbon than he is burning in a trip to London on British Airways. Of course, this calculation doesn't work if the […] Continue Reading…
Alaska: Is it Sustainable after TSHTF?
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 11, 2017
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This is Part 1 of a 4 Part Series which will air on the Diner for the next 3 weeks of Sunday Brunches
Last week, a friend of mine now living down in the Lower 48 in WA came up for one of his more or less bi-annual visits. We used to work together up here. He has a rental Real Estate property here still, plus a part time job gig as well doing the books for a small biz up here.
It was fortuitous timing for me, I've been in the market for a Stealth Van to go traveling with and bringing the message of Collapse to the masses, but without a 2nd driver along it's hard to make the kind of on-the-spot CASH deals you want to make for Used Cars. If you flash the Greenbacks at a Seller and say you will buy it right here, right now, you instantly shave at least 10% off the asking price.
So, after he attended a weekend wedding of the guy he does the books for, he […] Continue Reading…
What’s In A Flag?
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Originally published on Daily Kos June 9, 2017
“In the 1950s and 1960s, civil rights activism and new federal laws inspired the same resistance to racial progress and once again led to a spike in the use of Confederate imagery. In fact, it was in the 1950s, after segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education, that many Southern states erected Confederate flags atop their state government buildings.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Earlier this year, one Corey Stewart, an overcooked potato currently running for Virginia governor against Republican fixer and bagman Ed Gillespie, campaigned at a Confederate-flag-bedecked gedunk on Virginia's Eastern Shore (a home for retrograde politics ever since Governor Berkeley fled Bacon's Rebellion for safety in 1676.)
A few words about Corey Stewart: He is Chair of the Board of Supervisors of Prince William County, Virginia, and drew national media attention for spearheading Prince William County's 2007 crackdown on illegal immigrants. He was hired as the Virginia chairman of the Trump for President campaign in December 2015, and fired in October 2016. He also drew attention for his use of the word "cuckservative" in a Reddit […] Continue Reading…
60: Life & Times of a Boomer Doomer 3
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 8, 2017
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The Public School Teaching Years
This was the shortest era of my life, around 3 years. Teaching science and math seemed like a good choice in changing careers, teachers of these subjects were in notoriously short supply since anyone really knowledgeable went into private industry where the salaries were higher. It also matched up well with my Hobby-Job of coaching gymnastics, since Skule finished the day in theory at 3PM, and coaching usually got underway around 4PM. Except I often had detentions to do after school, so I was often late for practice.
The problems I faced during this period were endless. First off, because I was being sent to two different schools (a Junior High and a High School), I didn't have my own clasroom. Instead, what I got were two rolling lecterns (one in each school) in which I was supposed to keep all my student records, my lesson plans and graded tests and homework assignements, and roll the lectern around from classroom to classroom that happenned to be empty while the main […] Continue Reading…
Dimming Bulb 3: Collapse has ARRIVED!
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 4, 2017
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Read also: The Dimming Bulb, The Dimming Bulb 2
Due to my High & Mighty position as a Global Collapse Pundit, I am often asked the question of when precisely will Collapse arrive? The people who ask me this question all come from 1st World countries. They are also all reasonably well off with a computer, an internet connection, running water and enough food to eat. While a few of us are relatively poor retirees, even none of us wants for the basics as of yet. The Diner doesn't get many readers from the underclass even here in Amerika, much less from the Global Underclass in places like Nigeria, Somalia,Sudan and Yemen.
The fact is, that for more than half the world population, Collapse is in full swing and well underway. Two key bellweathers of where collapse is now are the areas of Electricity and Food.
In his seminal 1996 paper The Olduvai Theory: Sliding Towards a Post-Industrial Stone Age, Richard Duncan mapped out the trajectory of where we would be as the years passed and […] Continue Reading…
How I Survived Collapse: Chapter 24
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Published on The Doomstead Diner May 31, 2017
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Kenny drove carefully through his narrow private driveway as he always did to avoid scratching up the paint job on the van or putting any dents in it. Keeping it in good shape and respectable looking was helpful in getting the more well to do clients for his landscaping bizness. Similarly, once out on the logging road he travelled slowly so as not to put too much stress on the shock absorbers from all the ruts in the road, which wasn't being maintained much if at all anymore by Weyerhauser. Only once reaching paved road did he crank up the accelerator and do the speed limit for the road of 50 mph. Then back on another logging road to get to Karl's place at around 25 mph or so, since although it was a dirt road was still being graded every year and was fairly smooth.
He pulled into Karl's place and parked the Van next to Karen's Ford Escort in one of the empty spots in the carport, and getting out he could […] Continue Reading…
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Published on Peak Surfer on June 4, 2017
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"Patterns of regenerative thinking augur regenerative patterns of living and the reverse is also true."
Ten years ago, Brian Eno suggested a word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or “scenes” can occasionally generate. The word he came up with is “scenius.” Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes.
In a Wired interview in 2011, Kevin Kelly described the idea this way:
Really, we should think of ideas as connections,in our brains and among people. Ideas aren’t self-contained things; they’re more like ecologies and networks. They travel in clusters.
Historical examples are the Yosemite rock climbers Camp 4 in the 1930s, Building 20 at MIT, the Algonquin Round Table, Silicon Valley, Soho, Burning Man, the North Beach of the Big Island in the 1950s, Greenwich Village, the Panhandle flats in the Haight in the 1960s, Glastonbury, Akwesasne, the affinity groups at Seabrook, the bioregional congresses, the World Social Fora, the UN climate summits, and the Amazonian Shamanism conferences.
We have been lucky to stumble into a number of those […] Continue Reading…
Blood on the tracks of the New Silk Roads
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Published on Asia Times on June 14, 2017
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China’s cardinal foreign policy imperative is to refrain from interfering abroad while advancing the proverbial good relations with key political actors – even when they may be at each other’s throats.
Still, it’s nothing but gut-wrenching for Beijing to watch the current, unpredictable, Saudi-Qatari standoff. There’s no endgame in sight, as plausible scenarios include even regime change and a seismic geopolitical shift in Southwest Asia – what a Western-centric view calls the Middle East.
And blood on the tracks in Southwest Asia cannot but translate into major trouble ahead for the New Silk Roads, now rebranded Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
When he said, on the record, “I decided … the time had come to call on Qatar to end its funding [of terrorism]”, President Trump essentially took credit for the Saudi/UAE-orchestrated excommunication of Doha, the aftermath of his now notorious sword dance in Riyadh.
US President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud attend the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 21, 2017. Photo: Reuters
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Using Energy to Extract Energy – the Dynamics of Depletion
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Published on FEASTA on June 21, 2017
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The “Limits to Growth Study” of 1972 was deeply controversial and criticised by many economists. Over 40 years later, it seems remarkably prophetic and on track in its predictions. The crucial concept of Energy Return on Energy Invested is explained and the flaws in neoclassical reasoning which EROI highlights.
The continued functioning of the energy system is a “hub interdependency” that has become essential to the management of the increasing complexity of our society. The energy input into the UK economy is about 50 to 70 times as great as what the labour force could generate if working full time only with the power of their muscles, fuelled up with food. It is fossil fuels, rfined to be used in vehicles and motors or converted into electricity that have created power inputs that makes possible the multiple round- about arrangements in a high complex economy. The other “hub interdependency” is a money and transactions systems for exchange which has to continue to function to make vast production and trade networks viable. Without payment systems nothing […] Continue Reading…
Lessons Learned from Death & Near Death Experiences 3
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on June 20, 2017
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LESSONS LEARNED FROM DEATH AND NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES
Part 3: Type A aortic dissection
By Geoffrey Chia, MBBS, MRCP, FRACP, June 2017
Chest pain is a very common symptom and most of the time is not dangerous – the most common causes are pain from the chest wall (ribs, muscles) or pain from the stomach and gullet due to acid reflux, so-called “heartburn”. Sometimes the exact cause of chest pain cannot be determined, but if we can rule out potentially dangerous causes, then we can strongly reassure the patient. On the other hand, the most lethal causes of chest pain are the unholy trinity of myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism and a very rare but fatal condition called type A aortic dissection1
The trickiest of all to diagnose is aortic dissection, which caused by a tear in the internal lining of the aorta (the main artery emerging from the heart), causing blood to enter and split (but not rupture through) the aortic wall. Blood entering the wall creates a cavity called a “false lumen” which […] Continue Reading…
The Future Monetary Ecosystem
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Published on FEASTA on June 8, 2017
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Over the next generation or two, there will be increasingly visible turf wars between money-suppliers with four very different motivations. It’s not really a fair fight, but it isn’t as one-sided as it used to be.
The spoils
The general term for the benefit associated with the issuance of a currency is seigniorage. Historically, the term has been associated with the profit made by a government from issuing currency, especially the difference between the face value of coins and their production costs. At the risk of outraging pedants we can use the term more broadly to include a wide range of benefits accruing to the issuer.
The spoils may be in the form of direct financial benefit (like the interest charged on credit-money created ex-nihilo). Or they may be indirect, in the form of influence that can in due course be traded or cashed-in (for example preferentially allocating credit to favoured partners).
There is, however, a further dimension. Money congeals as wealth. The location of wealth signals the ‘revealed preferences’ of the underlying money-system. Sure, there’s luck, inheritance […] Continue Reading…
Half A Loaf
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Originally published on Daily Kos on June 17, 2017
“Half a loaf is better than no bread.” —Thomas Jefferson
I wrote about this briefly last month in a Facebook status update, but recent events suggest that I revisit it. It was the episode wherein a so-called (and former) FB “friend” announced,
“I am unfriending any idiot who calls Trump a Putin puppet. You're hating for all the wrong reasons.”
Didn't know I required a full portfolio of reasons. I thought emolument clause violations, grifts of various sizes, and treason was quite enough.
This person is a Michigan resident who proudly announced her unswerving support for Jill Stein, along with her unwavering hatred for "the Hillbot." She was one of 10,000 Stein voters in a state where the margin for Trump was 10,000, so we can fairly argue that she and voters like her helped elect Trump in Michigan. Because math. And logic.
Finding this thread a target rich environment, I explained how dozens of intelligence agencies had found a reason to investigate Trump before the election, that subpoenas were tumbling out the Eastern Virginia district, and that Trump is in the process of handing over Russian real estate […] Continue Reading…
No Electricity & Hack My Tractor
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Published on The Daily Impact April 26 & 28, 2017
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No Electricity, No Russians, No Story
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San Francisco, noon, April 21, 2017. Traffic not moving, buildings dark. Similar things happening in New York and Los Angeles. Was it the Russians? No? Then forget about it.
Last Friday, the lights went out in New York. And San Francisco. And Los Angeles. Not all the lights, and not all day, but still. It’s only April, three months before the summer heat challenges the electric grid to within an inch of its life, as the summer does every year. Three serious outages in three major cities seems like grist for the cable news mill, wouldn’t you think, with talking heads wall to wall saying things like, “Well, I know nothing about it, and none of us will for days, but it could have been a Russian cyber attack.”
That happened, of course, but only on a handful of conspiracy-loving, fake-news-peddling, objectivity-challenged publications. Like the Washington Post and the New York Times. (Just kidding. They didn’t pay much attention to […] Continue Reading…
Echoes in Eternity
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Published on Cassandra's Legacy on June 7, 2017
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"What we do in life echoes in eternity" is a line from "Gladiator" (actually from Marcus Aurelius). What our politicians are doing now, and will be doing in the near future, for the climate will echo for a long time in the future of our planet.
President Trump's decision to exit the Paris agreement has been correctly vilified almost everywhere outside the US, but some commentators noted that Trump may have done the right thing, even though for the wrong reasons. It seems that for many politicians and industrialists, the Paris treaty was seen as the perfect tool to appear to be doing something while at the same time doing nothing. Personally, I tend to agree with this interpretation, especially from what I know about Italian politicians.
So, here is a link to a text where Trump's decision is discussed in these terms. I am impressed by Graham Readfearn's statement that the Paris treaty was seen by the coal industry as a way to get financed for "clean coal" and other useless technologies. Again, knowing […] Continue Reading…
Rollerblading the Halls of Power
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Published on Peak Surfer on May 28, 2017
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"This is what solutions look like. Some are very large. Some are very small. They are all important."
“It is important to understand that humans have never lived here on Earth at above 300 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere.” On May 18 this is how Paul Hawken began his talk at Marlborough House.
On one side of the 12–meter cherry mahogany bubinga table sat the Secretary General, Her Excellency The Right Honourable The Baroness Patricia Scotland of Asthal, QC PC, the 6th Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations. To her left were Mary Robinson, the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland (1990-97) and the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997- 2002); Anote Tong, President of Kiribati, a country of some hundred thousand citizens, which is disappearing under the sea; His Excellency High Commissioner Jitoko Tikolevu of Fiji, 2017 next chair of the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP-23); Johns Kharika of UNCDD, and their Excellencies, the representatives of the 52 member nations of the Commonwealth.
To her right sat our team […] Continue Reading…
Lessons Learned from Death and Near Death Experiences 2
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on June 12, 2017
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LESSONS LEARNED FROM DEATH AND NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES
Part 2: Complete Heart Block and Ventricular Asystole, true and false “brown pants cases”
By Geoffrey Chia, MBBS, MRCP, FRACP, June 2017
Cardiac arrest refers to the sudden cessation of effective pumping action of the heart due to either an extremely rapid heart rate or, less commonly, due to complete ventricular standstill.
Malignant, extremely rapid ventricular arrhythmias, most commonly VF, are the main cause of sudden cardiac death. Rarely, supraventricular arrhythmias can mimic ventricular arrhythmias and cause sudden death (eg atrial flutter or atrial fibrillation conducting rapidly down an accessory pathway resulting in a ventricular rate of 300/min or more. The ECG of this particular supraventricular arrhythmia resembles a ventricular arrhythmia because of “aberrant conduction”).
At the opposite end of the spectrum, primary ventricular asystole or ventricular standstill is another cause of sudden cardiac death, although rather uncommon. The electrical, and hence mechanical, activities of the ventricles, the main pumping chambers, literally just stop. The patient flatlines. Contrary to Hollywood dramas, ventricular asystole does NOT respond to […] Continue Reading…
Trump’s Sword Dance Sets Off the War of the Wahhabis
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Published on Sputnik on June 7, 2017
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US President Donald Trump could not possibly have predicted the game-changing after-effects of his triumphal sword dance in Riyadh.
Or could he?
© AFP 2017/ KHALED AL-SAYYED
Next Step – Invasion? Why Saudi Arabia Moved to Cut Ties With Qatar
The fact is the House of Saud went amok, in a flash, going after Qatar and bombing from the inside that glorious Arab NATO project – call it NATOGCC — sworn with pomp over a glowing orb.
An excited Trump tweeted three times his approval for Riyadh going after Doha.
Trump and NATOGCC had equaled Daesh and Iran as “terrorists”. The House of Saud went one up — and denounced Qatar for top terror financing, which equals Don Corleone hurling Mafioso accusations against Tony Soprano.
But then, in an unexpected plot twist, Daesh, handily, graphically, underlined the cosmic stupidity of the whole charade – staging, or at least claiming to stage a terror attack against the Parliament and the Imam Khomeini shrine in Tehran.
© AP Photo/ Lukasz Szelemej, file
Qatari Conflict: 'Proxy Battle Between Iran and Saudis Going to the Next Level'
The current Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad al Thani, now “guilty” for not blaming Iran as the root of all evils in the Arab […] Continue Reading…
Climate: Limits and Opportunities for the New Economies
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Published on Cassandra's Legacy on June 2, 2017
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A post by Ilaria Perissi, from her blog "Systems". Ilaria is a researcher at the University of Florence, Italy, currently working at the EU "MEDEAS" project aimed at modeling material fluxes of the EU economy.
by Ilaria Perissi
In a previous post titled Information, Energy and Human development, I concluded saying that we don’t know what will happen to our society if the planet will be overheated. I don’t have the answer, and maybe I will never have it, but I have surely been gaining new insights on what has been the influence of the climate on the history of civilisation, and what could be its role, if there is any, into a more equitable future and a sustainable society.
I start exactly from this last point: how are we now imagining a future civilisation?
We need a new source of energy that should be renewable (in the way we do not risk total depletion of it, at least till the sun will shine), also thinking about a new economy not based on an intensive exploitation of fossil […] Continue Reading…
Atlantic Crossing
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Published on Peak Surfer on May 21, 2017
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"There are some black swans in aviation’s future that could tip its economic balance. The three biggies are peak oil, climate weirding and cyberwarfare."
We are in London this week and on our trip across the pond we could not help but think how much more we would much prefer to have gotten here by sail.
Sadly, there is a distinct competitive advantage that favors passenger jets. If following tradewinds for an ocean crossing means devoting days and weeks for such travel, clipper ships are not coming back any time soon. Still, given the past century’s advances in materials and computing power, there are great opportunities for innovation in Atlantic crossings.
There are also some black swans that could tip the balance against flying. The three biggies are peak oil, climate weirding and cyberwarfare.
Advantage Environment writes:
A foretaste of what the future sails may look like, we can go to companies like Kite Ships and SkySails, each of which develops various forms of large, free-flying sails without masts, which are anchored at the bow of the ship […] Continue Reading…
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