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Early Warning
Personal blog · earlywarn.blogspot.comeconomicsscience
Early Warning is a personal blog at earlywarn.blogspot.com about economics and science. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Early Warning, a blog on energy, oil, and economic trends that uses charts and statistics. Posts are cited in discussions of peak oil, biofuels, energy storage, and GDP.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Rational Analysis of Global Civilizational Risk
What Hacker News says?
I 'm with you on the hardware angle. Seriously, where's the SDK and the apps for my programmable home cleaning/general purpose robot? It's not like it costs much nowadays to stack a robot arm on top of a roomba. What about cars, where is my inspector-gadget car that parks itself and doesn't let accidents happen? Embedded software should not be limited to flashing leds with arduinos. Edit: Somewhat related: http://ea…
Comment linking /2012/04/global-robot-population.html
on “Time To Get Past Facebook And Invent A New Future”Submitted Snowden and the Toxicity of the Internet (June 2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWind over a large area is far more constant than you might expect the problem is you need a vary large area (east - west coast) to see this. http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2010/04/averaging-us-east-coas... Still the major advantage to wind is it's the cheapest power out there. (Yes lower than coal, nuclear, hydro, etc.) PV Solar is also vary steady in the areas you would put it. (AKA not the South Pole.) Storage is u…
Comment linking /2010/04/averaging-us-east-coast-wind.html
on “Why Energy Storage Is About to Get Big – And Cheap”Submitted Number of US Wind Energy Installations Collapsed in 2010 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBuffet: "A century from now the 400 million acres of farmland will have produced staggering amounts of corn, wheat, cotton, and other crops -- and will continue to produce that valuable bounty, whatever the currency may be." Buffet implicitly rejects global warming here, specifically the latest projections on drought: http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2012/01/another-terrifying-dro... and others.
Comment linking /2012/01/another-terrifying-drought-paper.html
on “Warren Buffett: Why stocks beat gold and bonds”Submitted What we spend our economy on as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2013/03/us-vs-european-gdp.htm...
Comment linking /2013/03/us-vs-european-gdp.html
on “Advanced economies are so sick we need a new way to think about them”There's a much better article covering the topic of 'peak oil' here: http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2013/08/what-oil-drum-meant.ht... I don't think the more intelligent people who argued that peak oil was a reality ever thought it was about anything other than the economics of extracting oil. Most of the discussion on the oil drum focused on what happened when the cost of energy outpaced economic growth. While I thin…
Comment linking /2013/08/what-oil-drum-meant.html
on “Why Peak-Oil Predictions Haven't Come True”How are biofuels viable as a replacement for oil in the quantities our current lifestyle demands? They can't be produced in the same quantities that oil can be, and producing them requires farmland, so food prices go up. stats and graphs: http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2011/02/us-ethanol-production....
Comment linking /2011/02/us-ethanol-production.html
on “Out of Fuel: Why Hasn't Innovation Provided a Reliable Alternative to Oil? ”
