Articles

The following links point to articles. Each article aims to let the reader see how energy effects our civilization today. A wise reader can thus use these articles to postulate how our civilization may look 50 years from now or 100 or 1000.

Technology Factor

Energy in a Pine Tree

Energy in Junk Mail

Energy Extraction

Knowledge and Energy

Dominoes and Energy

Limits to Energy

Dependence Upon Energy

Archaeology

Ecosystems

Planning for the Future

Energy au Naturel

Energy Comes and Goes

Out of House and Home

A Lifetime of Energy

Aztecs and Energy

The Energy Cost of War

Bounds to Energy

Awareness

Biomass

Zettajoules

Legacy

First Estimate

Remnants

Equality of Energy

Energy, the Environment and the Economy

Barrels and Atoms

Populations

Darfur

Photovoltaics

Just on Time Management

An Opportunity

Housing Starts

A Rich Man's World

Liberty

Borders

An Energetic Year

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Economists and Famine

A Sustainable Limit

Lawn Care

Reliance, Independence

Planning and Longevity

The Levant

Dirt

Natural Instincts

The Value of Knowledge

Beer

It's All in the Timing

Tourism

Ice Blocks

The Green Revolution

The Cost of Technology

Rice

Pottery

Caesar and the Rhine

It's Just the Wind

Apophis 99942

A Red Brick Schoolhouse

The Tree

What Would the Ents Say?

Visions

Cooling Down

Democracy

What's In It For Me?

Altruism

Death

Life

Predator and Prey

War, Plague and Pestilence

Go Forth and Multiply

Iron Swords

Spaceports

Switzerland

Forests and Trees

Niagara Falls

Common Heritage

Surplus Energy

Valuation

Save a Tree

Food to Fuel

Land Cover

Sharing

Earth Hour

Cities

Maple Syrup

Library of Alexandria

Robots

Land Cover (b)

Dandelion Power

Aluminium

Investment

Roadways

Saving Knowledge

Spacefarers

Egypt

City Power

Sustainability

From Here of There

Hi-ho Silver

Butterfly Tactics

Efficiency Ratios

Super Yachts

Rocketry

Economists

Let's Be Selfish

Kramer Junction

Biodiesel

Nothing for Something

Harvest Time

Ghost Towns

Mushrooms

Forestry

Pitcairn

Recession

Our Civilization's Energy Consumption

Lotteries

Moose

Prisoner's Dilemma

Turkeys

Education Investment

Recession and Limits

Cold Enough for You?

Calling Occupants

My Rules!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by Mark Foster Mortimer