[Peakoil-website-changes] [DokuWiki] page changed: senate_oil_inquiry_submission

[peakoil at act-peakoil.org]

A page in your DokuWiki was added or changed. Here are the details:

Date        : 2006/02/24 08:54
Browser     : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Debian/1.7.8-1
IP-Address  : 10.0.0.1
Hostname    : nermal
Old Revision: http://act-peakoil.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=senate_oil_inquiry_submission&rev=1140731550
New Revision: http://act-peakoil.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=senate_oil_inquiry_submission
Edit Summary: 
User        : 

@@ -93,9 +93,8 @@
  dissipated as unusable heat energy. Usable energy is known as exergy.
  Unusable energy is entropy. No thermodynamic system can operate at
  100% efficiency, and is almost always at a fraction of that. More
  energy is lost with each additional step in a process.
- 
  
  ==== Broader principles ====
  
  
@@ -110,9 +109,9 @@
  There are limits to exponential growth in a finite system. Growth
  tends to overshoot if there is inadequate information about available
  resource supplies and pollution sinks, or a lack of foresight.  In
  the worst case there is the possibility of die-off. So if we have no
- idea how much oil is left, yet continue to grow the economy as fast
+ idea how much oil is left, yet continue to grow the economy or population as fast
  as we can, disaster awaits us. There is an inexorable tendency for
  new and insurmountable limits to emerge as a result of attempting to
  evade other limits. This was the crucial but usually forgotten
  insight of //Limits to Growth// ( Meadows et al, 2004).



-- 
This mail was generated by DokuWiki at
http://act-peakoil.org/dokuwiki/