What Happens When the Party Ends? - Drs. A. V. Bendebury & M. S. DeLay - DemystifyPod #255

Anastasia has been reading Vaclav Smil's Energy and Civilization,
so we decided to sit down for a meta conversation about
petroleum, prime movers, and geopolitics. This solo chat ties
together a bunch of the conversations we've had on the show in
the last year about climate, technology and the energy
transition. Historically, we've been pretty skeptical when people
start banging on about the need to transition to a completely
electric grid, but Smil makes a really compelling point - all
human endeavors depend on motive power. We go further to consider
the downstream consequences of the prime movers we rely on, the
risk of this being the last civilization for the next 20 million
years, and the strange software called "progress" that was
installed in humans when we departed from our primate roots. Sign
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supplies do run out: assumption#1 00:09:38 Oil production going
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The actual electric universe 00:29:00 Lucius Appeleus 00:39:14
Population & growth fears 00:43:48 Who or what are the
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Why are we racing toward the future? 00:57:57 Relief of
sufferring at the cost of all else 01:03:07 Calhoun & density
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