Meet The Guy Who Taught Mouth Gates Well-Nigh Energy

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From the magazine Science, March 21:

Meet Vaclav Smil, the human being who has quietly shaped how the the world thinks virtually energy

As a teenager inwards the 1950s, Vaclav Smil spent a lot of fourth dimension chopping wood. He lived amongst his identify unit of measurement inwards a remote town inwards what was in addition to then Czechoslovakia, nestled inwards the mountainous Bohemian Forest. On walks he could run into the Hohenbogen, a high ridge inwards neighboring West Germany; less visible was the minefield designed to forestall Czechs from escaping across the border. Then it was dorsum home, splitting logs every iv hours to stoke the 3 stoves inwards his home, 1 downstairs in addition to 2 up. Thunk. With each stroke his body, fueled yesteryear goulash in addition to grain, helped gratis the sun's energy, transiently captured inwards the logs. Thunk. It was repetitive in addition to tough work. Thunk. It was clear to Smil that this was hardly an efficient means to live.

Throughout his career, Smil, perchance the world's firstly thinker on unloose energy of all kinds, has sought clarity. From his domicile business office nigh the University of Manitoba (UM) inwards Winnipeg, Canada, the 74-year-old academic has churned out dozens of books over the yesteryear iv decades. They move through a host of topics, including China's environmental problems in addition to Japan's dietary transition from plants to meat. The prose is dry, in addition to they rarely sell to a greater extent than than a few one one thousand copies. But that has non prevented some of the books—particularly those exploring how societies conduct maintain transitioned from relying on 1 root of energy, such equally wood, to another, such equally coal—from profoundly influencing generations of scientists, policymakers, executives, in addition to philanthropists. One ardent fan, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates inwards Redmond, Washington, claims to conduct maintain read nearly all of Smil's work. "I await for novel Smil books," Gates wrote concluding December, "the means some people await for the side yesteryear side Star Wars movie."

Now, equally the the world faces the daunting challenge of trying to curb climate modify yesteryear weaning itself from fossil fuels, Smil's move on unloose energy transitions is getting to a greater extent than attending than ever. But his message is non necessarily 1 of hope. Smil has forced climate advocates to reckon amongst the vast inertia sustaining the modern world's dependence on fossil fuels, in addition to to inquiry many of the rosy assumptions underlying scenarios for a rapid shift to alternatives. "He's a slayer of bullshit," says David Keith, an unloose energy in addition to climate scientist at Harvard University.
Give Smil v minutes in addition to he'll alternative apart 1 cherished scenario subsequently another. Germany's solar revolution equally an instance for the the world to follow? An extraordinarily inefficient approach, given how petty sunlight the solid set down receives, that hasn't reduced that nation's reliance on fossil fuels. Electric semitrailers? Good for petty to a greater extent than than hauling the weight of their ain batteries. Wind turbines equally the embodiment of a low-carbon future? Heavy equipment powered yesteryear stone oil had to dig their foundations, Smil notes, in addition to kilns fired amongst natural gas baked the concrete. And their steel towers, gleaming inwards the sun? Forged amongst coal.

"There's a lot of hopey-feely going on inwards the unloose energy policy community," says David Victor, an skillful on international climate policy at the University of California, San Diego. And Smil "revels inwards the capability to present those falsehoods."

But Smil is non but a naysayer. He accepts the sobering reality of climate change—though he is dubious of much climate modeling—and believes nosotros demand to cut down our reliance on fossil fuels. He has tried to cut down his ain carbon footprint, edifice an energy-efficient domicile in addition to adopting a by in addition to large vegetarian diet. He sees his academic move equally offering a cleareyed, realistic assessment of the challenges ahead—not equally a justification for inaction. And he says he has no ax to grind. "I conduct maintain never been incorrect on these major unloose energy in addition to environmental issues," he says, "because I conduct maintain cipher to sell."

Despite Smil's reach—some of the world's most powerful banks in addition to bureaucrats routinely enquire for his advice—he has remained intensely private. Other experts tap trip the lite fantastic for attending in addition to pursue TED talks. But Smil is a throwback, largely letting his books speak for themselves. He loathes speaking to the press (and opened upwards to Science exclusively out of a sense of duty to The MIT Press, his longtime publisher). "I actually don't intend I conduct maintain anything special to say," he says. "It's out at that spot if you lot desire to know it."...Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a whole 'nother story.
If nosotros are going to run out of anything inwards the foreseeable hereafter it is likely helium in addition to because of that, inwards the spirit of conservation, I no longer say "That's equally funny equally 3 helium atoms, HeHeHe"

The fert create practise starred inwards a twain posts including "Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Vaclav Smil Takes on Jeremy Grantham Over Peak Fertilizer" inwards which our hero came out swinging from the opening bell:

We Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a posted the whole of Mr. Grantham's Nov. xv Nature piece for fearfulness it would become behind Nature's paywall.
To engagement it hasn't. Also to engagement I haven't come upwards through on my assurance inwards Nov. 24ths "Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Jeremy Grantham "On the Road to Zero Growth" equally His Co-head of Asset Allocation Does the Full Monty". I hope I'll larn to it.

We conduct maintain almost equally many posts on Professor Smil equally nosotros practise on Mr. Grantham. This is the outset fourth dimension they've been together. I experience really uncomfortable beingness on the contrary side of Mr. G on precisely virtually anything but inwards this instance Smil is right.

From The American:

Jeremy Grantham, Starving for Facts
 A column yesteryear legendary property director Jeremy Grantham is to a greater extent than suitable for the tabloids than for 1 of the world’s oldest in addition to most prestigious scientific weekly magazines....Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a MORE.

Some of our posts on Mr. Smil:
Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Vaclav Smil: Planet of the Cows

Our readers may know Mr. Smil equally a large bargain inwards the Thinking-about-Energy biz. Here he is thinking virtually bovines....

...Previous Smil at Spectrum:
Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Vaclav Smil: "Advanced Economies Must Still Make Things"
Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Vaclav Smil: "Cellphones equally a fifth-order elaboration of Maxwell’s theory"
Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Calories In, Kilowatts Out: Apparently Sweating Is Important
Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a "Happy Birthday to Moore’s Law" (plus political party pooper Vaclav Smil)

And non-Spectrum Smil:
Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Vaclav Smil On Energy: "Revolution? More similar a crawl"
Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Bill Gates on The Most Astounding Statistic In Vaclav Smil's New Book

Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Bill Gates Summer Reading List (Vaclav Smil has 2 entries)
Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Energy--'Vaclav Smil is Correct: Never Forecast'
Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Energy: "The human being who’s tutoring Bill Gates … "
Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Vaclav Smil: "In unloose energy matters, what goes around, comes around—but perchance should become away"
Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Vaclav Smil: "The Manufacturing of Decline"
Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Serious Thinking on Energy: An Interview With physician Vaclav Smil
Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a A Major Piece: "Why the tech revolution isn’t a template for an unloose energy revolution"
Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Bill Gates Reviews Vaclav Smil's "Prime Movers of Globalization: The History in addition to Impact of Diesel Engines in addition to Gas Turbines"

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Further Reading post, March 22

Back inwards 2012 GMO's Jeremy Grantham was alert virtually the impending civilization-destroying shortage of fertilizers, specifically phosphorus in addition to potash. His declaration was published inwards the magazine Nature, precisely virtually equally prestigious a platform equally 1 is probable to mount, salve maybe Proceedings of the Royal Society—A, but that's for physics in addition to engineering. Anyhoo. Mr. Grantham said the the world was going to run out but that is non the means commodities work. H5N1 commodity's toll volition ration provide to the highest purpose (although inwards cases similar corn the allotment part is distorted yesteryear regime ethanol policies). Additionally, toll volition incentivize both increased production in addition to substitution.

To engagement the exclusively commodity the the world has run out of is, oddly enough, a fertilizer inwards the shape of guano. We were pretty unopen on whale stone oil earlier Mr. Rockefeller's majority production of kerosene saved the whales. And in addition to then there's menhaden but that's a Energy in addition to Artificial Intelligence Expert Professor Sir David J.C. MacKay Has Died, Age 48 

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