tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post669566025813508777..comments2023-08-15T06:33:53.114-07:00Comments on Bison Prepper: EROI economy 1 of 2James M Dakinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-89447183046891558732016-08-20T08:44:22.962-07:002016-08-20T08:44:22.962-07:00Seasonal eating-stocking up for the winter. Seasonal eating-stocking up for the winter. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-48623920887505489452016-08-20T07:58:44.399-07:002016-08-20T07:58:44.399-07:00Not sure what you mean about the seasonal eating.
...Not sure what you mean about the seasonal eating.<br />We have 33 feeders right now and more to come, and go through a 50# bag of black oil seeds a month and half a doz suets. There are seasonal birds throughout the year and as far as I have observed all of them spend most of their daylight hours searching for food. There are few hours during the hottest part of the summer days where they retreat to cooler spots but the rest of time it's eat, Eat, EAT! We have 4 hummingbird feeders on the front porch and them little divebombers are rapacious eaters (sippers?) too. They are amazing little things to watch.ghostsniperhttp://www.deadcenter.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-17352019481232214742016-08-19T14:10:42.734-07:002016-08-19T14:10:42.734-07:00GS-I'm inclined to agree with almost everythin...GS-I'm inclined to agree with almost everything you are talking about but you did go a bit too far in the extreme. A lot of that constant foraging is both because of seasonal eating and a vegetarian diet. Not disagreeing with you, and I applaud your paranoia, just adding a bit of a caution to take a grain of salt with that.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-80530377820078271912016-08-19T14:04:08.945-07:002016-08-19T14:04:08.945-07:00So, yes, thank you Free Stuff Army, for keeping un...So, yes, thank you Free Stuff Army, for keeping unemployment from getting worse. Of course, Old Farts and Independent Woman Hear Me Roar bitches are stealing our jobs anyway. What is left the Latinos take. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-81220894803759244742016-08-19T09:24:34.518-07:002016-08-19T09:24:34.518-07:00No, even the human animal, IMHO, are energy contin...No, even the human animal, IMHO, are energy contingent. Play used used to involve physical activity that would maintain a body that would be used in energy production that uses that body -aka making the body more efficient. Now adult energy production (in the form of salary) is more often done through computer usage, and play more often involves less (body) energy intensive computers as well. <br />Why would a welfare queen go to work, if she can get disability and welfare for having kids and sitting on her duff? Energy costs to the welfare queen to get on and stay on welfare and disability is far less than the energy costs to find a job and work it until retirement. Plus her joining the workforce in large numbers would depress wages, further reducing the energy return from working. JJGreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708302086326564665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-40147811094025931822016-08-19T07:16:17.082-07:002016-08-19T07:16:17.082-07:00Watch the wild animals. And I don't mean a fle...Watch the wild animals. And I don't mean a fleeting glance and nod. Study them. Birds, mammals. <br /><br />During the day they are constantly looking for food. When they find something they usually retreat to a safe area to eat it. Then right back out there. Constantly aware of their surroundings. Because death is always just milliseconds away. <br /><br />Imagine getting ready to eat and you have to walk 2 blocks, pick up a single bite, come back to the safety of your house to eat it, then walk 2 blocks again for the next bite, over and over and over. And all along the trip there are armed and dangerous thugs hiding everywhere. Next time you eat a normal meal count how many bites it takes to complete it. Then multiply that by 1000' (2000'?) to get and idea of how much effort you'll have to expend. <br /><br />THAT's the reason animals look for food all day, because they use much of it while looking for it.<br /><br />When was the last time you seen a morbidly obese bird or mammal or fish? They do not exist in the wild for their lifestyle is such that obesity cannot happen. Only animals that are controlled by humans can become obese.<br /><br />Did I mention the viciousness that comes part and parcel with constant foraging for food? If you can some how get your hands on a wild cardinal or a chipmunk it will instantly inflict as much pain on you as it can. No, it probably won't kill you, but that is what it is expecting you to do to it so it will immediately fight for it's very life. Imagine having to fight an "Andre' the Giant" sized dood for every single bite of that next Whopper you consume. <br /><br />That's your obammy future, comin' right up. Maybe in a couple months, but certainly by next summer. <br /><br />That's why I say 80mil will be gone in the 1st 90 days.<br />(next summer)<br /><br />Mostly the very old, the very young, and the weak (mind and/or body). Which of those groups are you closest too?<br /><br />Those that are not killed or die from other things, about 80% will turn Quisling for the overlords for a few crumbs. The long term survivors will be the lone wolves and those in very small and tight compounds that let no one in and no one out for to do so invites contamination of the body and mind. ghostsniperhttp://www.deadcenter.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-842061346829599012016-08-19T05:04:35.155-07:002016-08-19T05:04:35.155-07:00Yes. Not a bad story at all-I'll probably buy...Yes. Not a bad story at all-I'll probably buy the book when it comes out so as to support him. I liked his novel on the coming global war. I still prefer his non-fiction and pre-ordered the one that is coming out any day now. I wish Kuntsler would put out more non-fiction but he has been notoriously slow writing his entire career. We take what we can get, I suppose.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-37231216022064859972016-08-18T21:23:57.477-07:002016-08-18T21:23:57.477-07:00Jim have you been reading Greer's Retrotopia c...Jim have you been reading Greer's Retrotopia chapter's ?Gary in Bamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00095999376990912465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-61503018841867147952016-08-18T12:34:14.432-07:002016-08-18T12:34:14.432-07:00EROEI - it is the bible. It is the golden rule. Th...EROEI - it is the bible. It is the golden rule. The Alpha and the Omega.<br />All energy on earth has one of two fundamental sources - the heat of the earth itself, or the radiance of the sun. As it passes through various steps some of the energy is lost even as other parts of the energy are concentrated. <br />And there are always energy losses (it that were ever some how reversed *everything* would blow up in the instant before reality itself disintegrated. <br />Every creature understands this intuitively. <br />You don't do something for nothing- and the more it appears you are doing something for nothing then the more surplus energy you have or the more important the results of the something you are doing is. (Art for example is the likely result of 1- looking for a mate which is the aspect of trying to further your genetic future and gain future energy inputs for your genes, or 2- passing on information/culture to your descendants which should get them to pay you back in your old age with enough energy sources to keep you alive, and giving your genetic/cultural descendants a better chance of surviving to collect energy themselves...<br />Note that when energy becomes scarce all living beings get less likely to do activities with lesser survival value (they become more wary/viscous, and lethargic).<br />JJGreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708302086326564665noreply@blogger.com