The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

China's independent oil companies are ramping up operations in Iraq, investing billions of dollars in OPEC's number two producer even as some global majors have scaled back from the market https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/04/markets/china-oil-firms-iraq/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #china #iraq #oil #fossilfuels

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Logical Map
@logical_map@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

For those that are interested in the math behind our situation with energy and #fossilfuels, #Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet may help. #TomMurphy can work with large numbers. He led a project testing relativity by bouncing lasers off the moon. He is a professor emeritus of the departments of Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics at UCSD. I recently followed his series on #Ishmael by #DanielQuinn after reading the book.

@lizzard
@gerrymcgovern
@504DR

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m

Where is humanity going? How realistic is a future of fusion and space colonies? What constraints are imposed by physics, by resource availability, and by human psychology? Are default expectations grounded in reality? This textbook, written for a general-education audience, aims to address these questions without either the hype or the indifference typical of many books. The message throughout is that humanity faces a broad sweep of foundational problems as we inevitably transition away from fossil fuels and confront planetary limits in a host of unprecedented ways—a shift whose scale and probable rapidity offers little historical guidance. Salvaging a decent future requires keen awareness, quantitative assessment, deliberate preventive action, and—above all—recognition that prevailing assumptions about human identity and destiny have been cruelly misshapen by the profoundly unsustainable trajectory of the last 150 years. The goal is to shake off unfounded and unexamined expectations, while elucidating the relevant physics and encouraging greater facility in quantitative reasoning. After addressing limits to growth, population dynamics, uncooperative space environments, and the current fossil underpinnings of modern civilization, various sources of alternative energy are considered in detail— assessing how they stack up against each other, and which show the grea Copyright: © 2022 T. W. Murphy, Jr. Creative Commons Attribution– NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Where is humanity going? How realistic is a future of fusion and space colonies? What constraints are imposed by physics, by resource availability, and by human psychology? Are default expectations grounded in reality? This textbook, written for a general-education audience, aims to address these questions without either the hype or the indifference typical of many books. The message throughout is that humanity faces a broad sweep of foundational problems as we inevitably transition away from fossil fuels and confront planetary limits in a host of unprecedented ways—a shift whose scale and probable rapidity offers little historical guidance. Salvaging a decent future requires keen awareness, quantitative assessment, deliberate preventive action, and—above all—recognition that prevailing assumptions about human identity and destiny have been cruelly misshapen by the profoundly unsustainable trajectory of the last 150 years. The goal is to shake off unfounded and unexamined expectations, while elucidating the relevant physics and encouraging greater facility in quantitative reasoning. After addressing limits to growth, population dynamics, uncooperative space environments, and the current fossil underpinnings of modern civilization, various sources of alternative energy are considered in detail— assessing how they stack up against each other, and which show the grea Copyright: © 2022 T. W. Murphy, Jr. Creative Commons Attribution– NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Where is humanity going? How realistic is a future of fusion and space colonies? What constraints are imposed by physics, by resource availability, and by human psychology? Are default expectations grounded in reality? This textbook, written for a general-education audience, aims to address these questions without either the hype or the indifference typical of many books. The message throughout is that humanity faces a broad sweep of foundational problems as we inevitably transition away from fossil fuels and confront planetary limits in a host of unprecedented ways—a shift whose scale and probable rapidity offers little historical guidance. Salvaging a decent future requires keen awareness, quantitative assessment, deliberate preventive action, and—above all—recognition that prevailing assumptions about human identity and destiny have been cruelly misshapen by the profoundly unsustainable trajectory of the last 150 years. The goal is to shake off unfounded and unexamined expectations, while elucidating the relevant physics and encouraging greater facility in quantitative reasoning. After addressing limits to growth, population dynamics, uncooperative space environments, and the current fossil underpinnings of modern civilization, various sources of alternative energy are considered in detail— assessing how they stack up against each other, and which show the grea Copyright: © 2022 T. W. Murphy, Jr. Creative Commons Attribution– NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Logical Map
@logical_map@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

For those that are interested in the math behind our situation with energy and #fossilfuels, #Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet may help. #TomMurphy can work with large numbers. He led a project testing relativity by bouncing lasers off the moon. He is a professor emeritus of the departments of Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics at UCSD. I recently followed his series on #Ishmael by #DanielQuinn after reading the book.

@lizzard
@gerrymcgovern
@504DR

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m

Where is humanity going? How realistic is a future of fusion and space colonies? What constraints are imposed by physics, by resource availability, and by human psychology? Are default expectations grounded in reality? This textbook, written for a general-education audience, aims to address these questions without either the hype or the indifference typical of many books. The message throughout is that humanity faces a broad sweep of foundational problems as we inevitably transition away from fossil fuels and confront planetary limits in a host of unprecedented ways—a shift whose scale and probable rapidity offers little historical guidance. Salvaging a decent future requires keen awareness, quantitative assessment, deliberate preventive action, and—above all—recognition that prevailing assumptions about human identity and destiny have been cruelly misshapen by the profoundly unsustainable trajectory of the last 150 years. The goal is to shake off unfounded and unexamined expectations, while elucidating the relevant physics and encouraging greater facility in quantitative reasoning. After addressing limits to growth, population dynamics, uncooperative space environments, and the current fossil underpinnings of modern civilization, various sources of alternative energy are considered in detail— assessing how they stack up against each other, and which show the grea Copyright: © 2022 T. W. Murphy, Jr. Creative Commons Attribution– NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Where is humanity going? How realistic is a future of fusion and space colonies? What constraints are imposed by physics, by resource availability, and by human psychology? Are default expectations grounded in reality? This textbook, written for a general-education audience, aims to address these questions without either the hype or the indifference typical of many books. The message throughout is that humanity faces a broad sweep of foundational problems as we inevitably transition away from fossil fuels and confront planetary limits in a host of unprecedented ways—a shift whose scale and probable rapidity offers little historical guidance. Salvaging a decent future requires keen awareness, quantitative assessment, deliberate preventive action, and—above all—recognition that prevailing assumptions about human identity and destiny have been cruelly misshapen by the profoundly unsustainable trajectory of the last 150 years. The goal is to shake off unfounded and unexamined expectations, while elucidating the relevant physics and encouraging greater facility in quantitative reasoning. After addressing limits to growth, population dynamics, uncooperative space environments, and the current fossil underpinnings of modern civilization, various sources of alternative energy are considered in detail— assessing how they stack up against each other, and which show the grea Copyright: © 2022 T. W. Murphy, Jr. Creative Commons Attribution– NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Where is humanity going? How realistic is a future of fusion and space colonies? What constraints are imposed by physics, by resource availability, and by human psychology? Are default expectations grounded in reality? This textbook, written for a general-education audience, aims to address these questions without either the hype or the indifference typical of many books. The message throughout is that humanity faces a broad sweep of foundational problems as we inevitably transition away from fossil fuels and confront planetary limits in a host of unprecedented ways—a shift whose scale and probable rapidity offers little historical guidance. Salvaging a decent future requires keen awareness, quantitative assessment, deliberate preventive action, and—above all—recognition that prevailing assumptions about human identity and destiny have been cruelly misshapen by the profoundly unsustainable trajectory of the last 150 years. The goal is to shake off unfounded and unexamined expectations, while elucidating the relevant physics and encouraging greater facility in quantitative reasoning. After addressing limits to growth, population dynamics, uncooperative space environments, and the current fossil underpinnings of modern civilization, various sources of alternative energy are considered in detail— assessing how they stack up against each other, and which show the grea Copyright: © 2022 T. W. Murphy, Jr. Creative Commons Attribution– NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Climate Camp Scotland
@climatecampscotland@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp last week

After a week of learning and living together, taking action against fascism, and preparing our movement for the struggle against the new fossil fascists, Climate Camp Scotland 2025 comes to an end.

Climate Camp Scotland will return to take the fight to fossil fuels and their fascist allies. Stay tuned and join the fight.

Music by the amazing Zoe Bestel who played at our camp

#scotland #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateaction #activism #fascism #climate #fossilfuels
Climate Camp Scotland
@climatecampscotland@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp last week

After a week of learning and living together, taking action against fascism, and preparing our movement for the struggle against the new fossil fascists, Climate Camp Scotland 2025 comes to an end.

Climate Camp Scotland will return to take the fight to fossil fuels and their fascist allies. Stay tuned and join the fight.

Music by the amazing Zoe Bestel who played at our camp

#scotland #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateaction #activism #fascism #climate #fossilfuels
Jon S. von Tetzchner
@jon@social.vivaldi.net  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Nice article about growth in solar power. It is good to see the progress.

I am a big fan of both solar and EVs, both 4 wheel ones and two wheel ones. We need to get off fossil fuels, and the sooner, the better.

#EV#Solar#GlobalWarming#GoodNews#FossilFuels#Politics

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment
Jon S. von Tetzchner
@jon@social.vivaldi.net  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Nice article about growth in solar power. It is good to see the progress.

I am a big fan of both solar and EVs, both 4 wheel ones and two wheel ones. We need to get off fossil fuels, and the sooner, the better.

#EV#Solar#GlobalWarming#GoodNews#FossilFuels#Politics

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment
bignose
@bignose@theblower.au  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

An Electric Arc Furnace (#EAF) in #Algoma, #Canada, begins producing steel without #CO2 emissions from #FossilFuels.

“Algoma's $880-million transition to electric arc furnace steelmaking has been the most costly building project in the city since building permits were issued.

“It will replace the blast furnace technology and coke ovens used to produce Sault steel for the past 124 years.

“The company expects its new Volta steel will reduce its #CarbonFootprint by up to 70 percent and help fuel growth of a low-carbon #economy.”

https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/algoma-steel-announces-historic-first-arc-at-new-electric-furnace-10924461

#WeHaveTheTechnology#ClimateAction#ShareGoodNewsToo
bignose
@bignose@theblower.au  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

An Electric Arc Furnace (#EAF) in #Algoma, #Canada, begins producing steel without #CO2 emissions from #FossilFuels.

“Algoma's $880-million transition to electric arc furnace steelmaking has been the most costly building project in the city since building permits were issued.

“It will replace the blast furnace technology and coke ovens used to produce Sault steel for the past 124 years.

“The company expects its new Volta steel will reduce its #CarbonFootprint by up to 70 percent and help fuel growth of a low-carbon #economy.”

https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/algoma-steel-announces-historic-first-arc-at-new-electric-furnace-10924461

#WeHaveTheTechnology#ClimateAction#ShareGoodNewsToo
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

"Todd Energy's permit may simply end up as an accounting fiction, used to boost the nominal value of the company while the gas stays in the ground."

@norightturnnz, 2025

Is there anything we can do to encourage this? Or even better, make keeping fossil fuels in the ground more financially valuable than extracting them? Other than the obvious, ie replacing then ASAP with renewables.

#FossilFuels#ClimateAction
Athena
@Climatehistories@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Brazil’s #COP30 chief André Corrêa do Lago insists that ramping up oil and gas production is perfectly compatible with fighting climate change, because, apparently, fossil fuels and global warming are best friends now.

Meanwhile, Brazil’s state oil giant Petrobras is planning one of the world’s biggest oil production surges.

How better to showcase climate leadership than by doubling down on oil drilling.

#climatechange#Brazil #fossilfuels

https://www.ft.com/content/4b8caca7-265d-4f34-ab6b-3a391520e6a2
Athena
@Climatehistories@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Brazil’s #COP30 chief André Corrêa do Lago insists that ramping up oil and gas production is perfectly compatible with fighting climate change, because, apparently, fossil fuels and global warming are best friends now.

Meanwhile, Brazil’s state oil giant Petrobras is planning one of the world’s biggest oil production surges.

How better to showcase climate leadership than by doubling down on oil drilling.

#climatechange#Brazil #fossilfuels

https://www.ft.com/content/4b8caca7-265d-4f34-ab6b-3a391520e6a2
Mongabay
@mongabay@mastodon.green  ·  activity timestamp last month

Bank financing for the fossil fuel sector rose by $162.5 billion in 2024, more than 20% compared to 2023, according to a Rainforest Action Network report.

Fossil fuel-related financing declined in 2022 and 2023, but in 2024 almost 70% of the 65 banks analyzed increased their funding for companies involved in fossil fuels.

By John Cannon
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/banks-bet-big-on-fossil-fuels-boosting-financing-in-2024-report-finds/

#News#Conservation#Environment#FossilFuels
Mongabay
@mongabay@mastodon.green  ·  activity timestamp last month

Bank financing for the fossil fuel sector rose by $162.5 billion in 2024, more than 20% compared to 2023, according to a Rainforest Action Network report.

Fossil fuel-related financing declined in 2022 and 2023, but in 2024 almost 70% of the 65 banks analyzed increased their funding for companies involved in fossil fuels.

By John Cannon
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/banks-bet-big-on-fossil-fuels-boosting-financing-in-2024-report-finds/

#News#Conservation#Environment#FossilFuels
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last month

A federal judge blocked the #Trump admin from freezing a $5 billion #Biden-era program to build a national network of #ElectricVehicle#ChargingStations. The ruling was a victory for a coalition of states that had sued over the order, arguing that federal agencies had unlawfully frozen the funds & halted approvals for new charging stations, depriving states of critical resources & damaging the growing #EV industry.

#law#Climate#FossilFuels
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/us/trump-news/2144bc8e-5e5f-5c81-852e-70c1cc33316a?smid=url-share
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last month

A federal judge blocked the #Trump admin from freezing a $5 billion #Biden-era program to build a national network of #ElectricVehicle#ChargingStations. The ruling was a victory for a coalition of states that had sued over the order, arguing that federal agencies had unlawfully frozen the funds & halted approvals for new charging stations, depriving states of critical resources & damaging the growing #EV industry.

#law#Climate#FossilFuels
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/us/trump-news/2144bc8e-5e5f-5c81-852e-70c1cc33316a?smid=url-share
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Thinking about the threads I posted about energy the other day. I knew that electric engines were far more efficient than even the latest combustion engines. But until I read Thorn's article on rewired.nz, I'd never joined the dots that this means we don't need the same number of calories of renewable energy to replace fossil fuel energy.

(1/?)

#energy#RenewableEnergy #fossilfuels#FacileFuels
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

“This raises serious questions for New Zealand’s long-term energy security, given the absence of realistic alternatives to natural gas to power industries, heat our homes and keep electricity prices down”.

John Carnegie, CEO, Petroleum Exploration and Production Association of NZ, 2021

Naked self-interest much? I bet John is laughing all the way to the bank under the current regime.

(1/?)

#energy#EnergySecurity#FossilFuels
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"So, if we want to transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy, it's going to require our manufacturing an enormous number of PV panels and wind turbines. We're going to have to make that transition something like 10 times the current rate at which we're introducing renewable energy infrastructure."

#RichardHeinberg, 2017

https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/podcasts/greening-the-apocalypse/episodes/2430-greening-the-apocalypse-6-june-2017

#podcasts #RRR#GreeningTheApocalypse#RenewableEnergy#PealOil#FossilFuels