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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 26 November | 147 comments (147 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

I think you just mixed up "economy" with "energy".

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Nov 26th, 2009 at 08:40:08 AM EST
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Even then, since the Earth is an open system it is not true that the energy available to the economy cannot grow.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 26th, 2009 at 08:51:45 AM EST
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I meant as in "by and large ~~wealth~~ energy can be re-distributed but cannot be created or destroyed".

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Nov 26th, 2009 at 09:05:31 AM EST
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In a closed system.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 26th, 2009 at 09:07:52 AM EST
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The universe is a closed system, at least last time I checked. ;)

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Nov 26th, 2009 at 09:15:14 AM EST
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Is it?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Nov 26th, 2009 at 09:16:11 AM EST
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we live on Earth and will for the foreseeable future - that is finite, but an open system
the universe may not be finite - in fact, the most recent consensus is that it isn't, in which case again the space within out cosmological horizon may be bounded but the cosmological horizon would be the boundary of an open system

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 26th, 2009 at 09:18:28 AM EST
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