The End of An Age
The decline and end (and beginning) of an age. An interview with Liam Scheff and Kayemmo KMO O’Khan. For the record or the road: an interview on many to most of the things that I think, write and talk about:… Continue Reading
Peak Oil
H’s, T’s and E’s – A Peak Oil Guide
by Liam. This is a post meant for people who follow resource depletion, simplified for the group think as “peak oil.” But you might enjoy knowing more about the three groups now thinking about the way this society will crumble… Continue Reading
The Solar Myth
Many of you know I’m writing this during a severe health crisis. You can support the work at the links below. Now, on with the sunshine. by Liam Scheff A good friend asked me: Why do people believe the solar… Continue Reading
A Peak Oil Thought Experiment: Letting The Optimists Speak
by Liam Many of you know I’m writing this during a severe health crisis. You can support the work at the links below. Now, on with the grease. What is Peak Oil? No, That’s Not What It Is. People imagine… Continue Reading
Our Current Dilemma
by Liam. The right wing investment sheets will tell you that we’re sitting on a trillion barrels of oil under the ground in North America. What they don’t tell you is that it’s wax and tar – and hard to… Continue Reading
Elon Musk’s New Battery Will (Not) Save The World From Itself
by Liam Elon Musk (innovator, inventor, engineer; formerly of Paypal, now of Tesla car company) is asking us to breathe a sigh of relief because soon every home will be running off of a battery – a “Powerpack.” It’s a… Continue Reading
It’s About To Be Summer. Grow Food.
by Liam Life is hard. People are deeply obnoxious – that goes for you, at times, too, trust me. I hear what people are saying. But I still like you. But you can’t change people, you can’t change the… Continue Reading
Science Will Save Us
Yesterday in a cafe, while doing taxes, I talked to a man who claimed to be a scientist (he was actually a cardiologist). I said I was writing a book about oil decline, and the need to relocalize food growing… Continue Reading
15-Minute Monkey
Understand this thought: Human beings came about in foraging groups. We did not have to think more than a half-day ahead most of the time. Maybe a day. We wandered with the moments, the seasons, driven by our stomachs and… Continue Reading
The Future of Energy (is in the hands of the people who gave you big pharma, war for oil, the war on drugs, and other big misses).
by Liam Scheff for the Robert Scott Bell Show. The future of energy is not in your hands – but it should be! On today’s show (3/27/16), I’ll tell you why planting food trees in your town is a better… Continue Reading
Does CO2 cause Global … Everything? (Or, Water for PEOPLE, Not Cows)
by Liam Scheff California’s drought has kept me up for days reading about water use. I’ve learned what I already knew – and it’s the reason I stopped eating big animals 24 years ago. A number rising to half of… Continue Reading
Be prepared to grow food: This Moment In Oil and Cultural Decline
By Liam Scheff Realities and predictions: Energy, water and food are all on the decline. With the imminent surrender of California to “reality” (aka, it’s a desert, everybody, and it always was!), food in the U.S. is about to become… Continue Reading
Water Crash and Cannibal California
It’s Liam with a message of… disaster! It’s Collapsifornication! California has a year of water left, says NASA, at current usage rates. The rationing, price-hikes, price-gouging, ruination of livelihoods, businesses and economies begins now! Get there early for a front… Continue Reading
You Are Free!
by Liam Scheff You are free! To fall in love and then bind yourself to a mortgage locked into a suburban half-floor for the rest of your life and never experience that surge of feelings again that made you fall… Continue Reading
Thank You Mike Adams and Natural News for Getting “Official Stories”
by Liam Scheff It happens to be my birthday at the end of the month – Geminis – the communicator of the zodiac. And at a certain age, by your mid-forties, it’s hard to be surprised by a present. But… Continue Reading
Science is Fact!
Science is fact! • Fact is data, interpreted through a worldview. Science is observation! • Observation is subjective. Science is measurement! • Measurements are linear and limited. Science is Truth! • Nothing is all knowable. —– Liam Scheff is… Continue Reading
Science – The Petroleum Priesthood
by Liam Scheff What we don’t understand (because we don’t see the road leading from antiquity to the present) is that what we call “Scientists” are actually priests to the god of petroleum. Everything we do, eat, touch, see, taste,… Continue Reading
Fukushima Update: All the Madmen
by Liam Scheff The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has decided to go forward with its plan to destroy the northern hemisphere and everyone in it by removing the 1,530 fuel bundles from the damaged building #4 of the crippled… Continue Reading
Syria: We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges
– Nutrasweet Magnate Donald Rumsfeld and a Former U.S.(CIA) Soldier Syria: We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges by Liam Scheff The following is an excerpt from Official Stories, detailing the reality of now. Invasions of seven countries in the Middle… Continue Reading
The New World
by Liam Scheff Proposition: We’re doomed, and we more or less deserve to be. We’ve done ourselves in. Our food, our water, energy, culture – everything about us is reeking of imminent death – or, at least, of strenuous, aching… Continue Reading
Energy
We live at the peak of the petroleum age, digging up every square mile of land for a little more oil. We’re ruining our water, soil, air and land – but we won’t stop. We’ve got a looming nuclear disaster… Continue Reading
This Is Not Free Energy
This is Not Free Energy by Liam Scheff Liam, you pessimist! You don’t believe in free energy? Well, no. No, I don’t. I’d be very cautious about wishing for such a thing, given how human beings use the expensive energy… Continue Reading
News of the Week: Die-Off, Ahoy!
by Liam Scheff Do you ever wake up, look at ‘las noticias,’ and realize: “Yeah, this civilization is cooked. Die-off ahoy!” In Brazil: “More than 80 tons of fish suffocated in the Rio de Janeiro lagoon that will be used… Continue Reading
460 is the Unluckiest Number
by Liam Scheff Q: Is 460 a troubling number? How about “460 tons?” A: Tons of what? Cheese doodles? No. French fries? No. Unspent nuclear fuel sitting on the 3rd and 4th floor of a shaking building already damaged by… Continue Reading
Oil Rig On Fire? Nothing To See Here!
Greetings fellow prisoners servants of her Majesty, the Fed and all ships at sea! It is I, Liam, your humble narrator for this jaunt on Mr. Oil’s Wild Ride. Do you understand that when I say, “We are going to… Continue Reading
The Energy Show with Liam Scheff
Press Release: A couple of months, no a quadruple couple of months of deeeeep immersion — and I’ve got the title for my new project. It required a sea-change, a complete surrender to the topic – and I’m quite metamorphosed… Continue Reading
“My Son Will Ride A Camel” – The Magician of Oz, Oil Peaks, Ponzi Schemes, Nukes and Fracking the World
“My Son Will Ride A Camel” – The Magician of Oz, Oil Peaks, Nukes and Fracking the World by Liam Scheff In the past week I have twice been sent a slick advertisement masquerading as a news story – but… Continue Reading
CO2, Green Nukes and Climate Change. Or Not?
CO2, Green Nukes and Climate Change. Or Not? by Liam Scheff An Open Question “CO2 Friendliness” is used by the nuclear energy industry to sell its very toxic products. “No CO2 emissions!” is the ad line that makes plutonium sound… Continue Reading
The Dividing Line
The Dividing Line by Liam Scheff The Choice Will Be Yours, Mine and Ours. Divided We Stand, United We Fall: Solar, Wind, Oil, Coal, Nuclear. The arguments pile up in disorganized, swaying towers, in colonies and countries of data –… Continue Reading
The Jack Blood Abiotic Oil Challenge – Accepted!
Does Oil Come From Old Plankton or Old Hat? by Liam Scheff My radio friend and admired pot-stirrer extraordinaire – Jack Blood of Deadline Live – has challenged me to consider “abiotic oil” as a real and useful source of… Continue Reading
Do You Care? A Quick Survey About the End of the World
How do we get more people to care, with energy and emphasis, about the reality of oil, fracking, and major cultural and economic change? A. We tell them their lifestyle is at risk. B. We tell them their health is… Continue Reading
Will Technology Save Us? Amory Lovins Says “Let’s Try It.”
by Liam Scheff Will Technology Save Us? Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute Says, “Try It!” Rocky Mountain Institute – dreams of banana trees in Arctic Colorado in the middle of winter; of super-efficient houses needed nothing but a… Continue Reading
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor – The Game is Afoot
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors. Say it fast, three times! I have promised friends and listeners that the nuclear energy parade would, despite unimpressive performance in the first half, be back – with some new tricks, moves and even players. And… Continue Reading
How Much Oil Is In The Ground In The Middle East?
by Liam Scheff How much oil is in the ground in the Middle East? Good question! Answer: they never quite tell the truth about it. Question: Do they “not quite tell the truth” by claiming less – or more? Have… Continue Reading
How Can You Be Against Fracking?
“How Can You Be Against Fracking?” by Liam Scheff “Fracking will give us energy independence!” goes the drumbeat. But is it true? A sober analysis of what’s really in the rocks comes up with a number much closer to 10… Continue Reading
In 2002, Petrol Geologists Knew Afghanistan and 9/11 Were All About The Oil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb950AwD3Zc Jump to eight minutes into the interview (but feel invited to watch the prior and subsequent segments, or all of them). In this interview from April 2002 – TWO THOUSAND TWO – Colin J. Campbell, petrol geologist, precisely analyzes… Continue Reading
Oh, Britannia! Britannia Will Be Fracked!
by Liam Scheff Fracking is a world-wide disaster – and the press and petrol giants are playing mental footsie with the public to get them to relent. Witness the business press playing at ‘fairness,’ ‘class warfare’ and ‘down with the… Continue Reading
Denial-Based Tech
Announcement: There will be no talk of “free energy” on my pages. It’s as fanciful (and based in a position of psychological denial) as “clean coal, clean nuclear and clean fracking.” No denial-based tech here. Post no bills. Reality is:… Continue Reading
Elysium Tries To Look Like Tomorrow But Misses The Metaphor
by Liam Scheff Elysium, the Dark Knight Rises, World War Z, Star Trek: Into Darkness, and every upcoming sci-fi action-adventure apocalypse film are all trying to tell us something: our way of life is threatened – and may be ending.… Continue Reading
The Boston Bombings – Which of These Stories is True?
by Liam Scheff It has been two weeks since the bombing of the Boston Marathon, and we have experienced such a volume of propaganda and thought-shaping media coverage that I have never seen. The media has failed to ask any… Continue Reading