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Our Subatomic Earth Infinite (Modicum of Silence)
Nic Ross is a 18 year old talented man from Whitehouse, Ohio. During his short life time he has reached a bit more than everybody from anonymous masses. He has estbalished the netlabel Modicum of Silence with (another superb musician) Kevin McCraney (they have in a liaison with the project Telemetrics), and has evolved his conceptions through the project gotikplage, and Our Subatomic Earth. First of all, His three projects have given a lot of hope regarding post rock and experimental metal that these named genres could not change into a term of abuse or the synonyme of pseudointellectual flummery. Anyway, I have heard enough about how people like to show off with the likes as Mono, and Sigur Ros as the popular and "modern" ones. Beauty and powerfulness do not mean beautiful or loud-sounding opuses in any cases, especially if it has been much exploited and fallen into decay. Such a quasi pathos is actually aversive and, unfortunately, these tracks are used to be much longer than 10 minutes. It is very sad to see/listen to how some ensembles who had co-defined the post-rock genre nearly 10 years ago lost their courage to avoid transforming into a balatron compared to their spotlights many years ago.
The music of Our Subatomic Earth is very different in comparison with the one of gotikplage. Gotikplage associates with a solid blend of post rock, progressive rock, and jazz rock. Besides sporadical massive drum works and shimmering guitar lines there are also warm-sounding analogue keyboard lines which remind me of some fusion bands of the end 70`s.
On Infinite Nic Ross continues realizing the possibilities he started evoking on the first albums (Is, and Nothing respectively). This album is as well as it supposed to be. This was fully recorded, mixed, and mastered between May and June of 2009. The music ranges from post-hardcore, post-metal and screamo attacks to soothing moments of post rock and ambient. At its loudest moments it is very noisy and acute, and its silent moments it is really a blissful vibration or filled with overflowing epicness. Despite of opposing counter sides in sound the whole is an excellent balanced one. The titles are in Latin, obviously referring to the "places" somehow related to the human state of mind, or just being the man. While I know I can`t be truth because the human soul is a way too dirty locus for this fantastic music (let`s convince in that listening to the track Palus Somni, for instance). Take time for a while to enjoy one of the most extraordinary creators in contemporary avant-rock. What else I could recommend... and listen to the other artists under Modicum of Silence, and Wise Owl Records as well, the music labels similar by sound/conception and place (Ohio State).
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In statistical process control, it is usually assumed that observations on the process output at different times are lID. However, for many processes the observations are correlated and control charts for monitoring these processes have recently received much attention. For monitoring the process level, this study evaluates the properties of control charts, such as the EWMA chart and the CUSUM chart, based on the residuals from the forecast values of an ARMA model. It is assumed that the process mean is a ftrst order autoregressive (AR(l)) model and the observations are the mean plus a random error. Properties of these charts are evaluated using a Markov chain approach or an integral equation approach. The performance of control charts based on the residuals is compared to the performance of control charts based on the original observations. A combined chart using forecasts and residuals as the control statistics as well as a combined chart using the EWMA of observations and the EWMA of residuals as the control statistics are also studied by simulation. It is found that no universally "good" chart exists among all the charts investigated in this study.
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We just got back from Jaclyn and Brian's place with a handful of goodies from their garden. I wish I could've taken a photo in daylight, but I wanted to grab a shot before W started cooking stuff up. From the left going clockwise: basil, chives, bell peppers, potatoes, onions, garlic, swiss chard, purple beans and tomatoes. It was so fun to see their garden in full force and to get fresh produce. I love it!
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Join us as we take a peek inside the 11.6" version of the all-new MacBook Air!
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We took this Air apart on October 21, 2010.
A new contender in the computer featherweight division has arrived!
We got our hands on the new MacBook Air 11" Late 2010, and judging from the picture on the box, it's thinner than we expected.
Technical specs on the thinnest Apple computer to date:
1.4GHz or 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
2GB DDR3 SDRAM (build to order option of 4GB)
64GB or 128GB Flash Storage
NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor
We think this is absolutely awesome, and a couple of MacBook Air generations overdue.
Compensating for the lack of an optical drive, the box includes a USB software reinstall drive. The drive is 8 GB total, and contains both Snow Leopard and iLife '11.
The drive is bootable by holding down the "C" key on startup, just like a normal DVD restore disc.
The USB drive appears to be read-only, but we haven't tried any serious hacking to prove otherwise.
The new MacBook Air's Magsafe power adapter has the same 45W 3.1A 14.5V rating as the old model, but at a fraction of the size.
The power button is now integrated into the keyboard, instead of it being part of the upper case.
Measuring in at 11.8" wide and 7.56" deep and tapering off from .68" to .11" in height, the new MacBook Air looks a lot like a midget among dwarves compared to the old models.
A frontal view reveals the omission of the IR sensor and sleep LED.
The flip-open port door has been scrapped, and the new model manages to fit an extra USB 2.0 port along its right edge.
Apple apparently doesn't want you inside this thing. They decided to use 5-point "Pentalobe" security screws to attach the lower case.
For this teardown, we had to file a couple of flathead screwdrivers to take out the funky screws. We have since found the correct 5-point driver to fit it.
Here's a 1366x768 wallpaper version for the new MB Air owners out there. We won't tell where you got it from.
Those aren't security Torx -- there's no center pin. They're just 5-point Torx, branded "Torx Plus". They allow greater torque and lower wear (but mainly exist because the 6-point patent was expiring). They are a bit rarer, thanks to limited licensing, but not a tamper-resistant fastener at all.
Drumroll please!
Lifting of the lower case after much struggling with those pesky case screws, we get our first look at the innards.
The inside of the MacBook Air is dominated by six individual lithium-polymer cells making up the 35 Wh battery.
The large battery assembly is held in by five T5 Torx screws.
This battery is 35 watt-hours. Previous revisions of 13" MacBook Air machines have included 37 or 40 watt-hour battery packs. Since this Air has a smaller screen and lacks a spinning hard drive, we'd expect run time to be somewhat better than earlier Airs.
After another T5 Torx screw is removed, the 64GB flash storage board can be disconnected from the logic board. It would be easily user-replaceable if you disregard the strange 5-point Torx needed to get inside.
The Mini PCI Express form factor SSD drive is a completely custom part, and will probably only be available through Apple support services, thereby putting another nail in the coffin for user-serviceability.
Note: the Mini PCI Express SSD is not exclusive to Apple, in fact it was used on some early netbooks like the Asus EeePC 8 gb.
Looks like Toshiba is making these hard drives available independent of the MacBook Air: http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/201...
The mSATA SSD unit appears to be assembled by Toshiba and is model number THNSNC064GMDJ.
There are six main chips on this custom board:
Four Toshiba TH58NVG7D7FBASB 16GB flash chips which make up the total 64GB.
Toshiba T6UG1XBG Solid State Drive controller.
Micron OKA17 D9HSJ DDR DRAM cache.
The new SSD is 2.45 mm thick compared to the platter-based 5.12 mm thickness of the old Air's drive. Being smaller in two of three dimensions definitely helps the new Air achieve a super-slim profile.
The SSD weighs in at a mere 10 grams, compared to the 45 grams of its spinning cousin.
According to a poster over at Ars Technica, the board is a "Mini PCIe SSD". Are you able to validate that this is indeed the case?
Yes, you can tell just by looking at the connectors in and slots in the images above. In System Profiler this shows up under Serial-ATA and not PCI Cards.
One reason for this is that it's likely using the SATA passthrough first made popular by Asus. What isn't known if this preserves the mini-PCIe interface or not, thus making 3rd-party mini-PCIe SSDs a simple task for manufacturers.
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The physical connection used by the SSD & Wifi cards appear to be Apple custom. They have fewer pins than mSata or mPCIe. You can compare here (for mSata): http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/21/toshi...
Electrically, they are probably SATA & 1-lane PCIe (given the sparse number of pins, each connector is probably one OR the other, not both at the same time).
With the turn of a screw, out comes the wireless board.
Although it uses the newer Mini PCI Express form factor, the new MacBook Air uses the same Broadcom Wi-Fi/Bluetooth chip as the current lineup of MacBook Pros.
The model number is BCM943224PCIEBT2.
The Wifi card look very repleceable, any guess about future tecnology steps in this area?
What's the other connector just left of the WiFi card?
That's the battery connector. To the left of that is the display connector.
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Mini PCI Express. I wonder can I get GPS for iAlert Anti Theft? Federal court accept Apple for want Google should more improve WiFi Access for Locator. That %*&% and poor locator.
Three T5 Torx screws secure the fan to the upper case.
All of the cooling and ventilation in the MacBook Air is provided by the single squirrel cage fan.
It's thinner and tinier than the regular MacBook fans, just like everything else in this machine.
The MagSafe, USB port, and sound card are all part of one smaller board that connects to the logic board.
There's a blob of glue on the ribbon cable connection points that acts as an insulator. This may prevent some electrifying results from occurring should the contact points wear through the plastic sheeting and touch the aluminum case of the Air.
The Air sports a Cirrus Audio 4206ACNZ audio controller. We saw this same chip we found in the latest MacBook Unibody and Mac Mini
The Glue on the ribbon cable is an extra restraint to supply support when handling the board or harness while assembling or disassembling the unit.
On the opposite side glue surrounds a power transformer used in the DC circuit to subdue vibrational noise or hum from the resonant frequency of the component.
I want to add the glue also helps inhibit cold solder joints from arising with vibration of the transformer or movement on the harness. Kind of a double duty for the application of glue or silicone in most circuits and near harnesses, jacks and other components that can receive stress in movement.
Three T5 Torx screws secure the ectomorphic logic board in place.
Like most recent Apple laptops, the heat sink comes out attached to the logic board. This is nice, as you'll only need to remove the heat sink and reapply thermal paste if you're replacing the logic board.
Unfortunately, like all previous MacBook Airs, the RAM is soldered to the logic board and is not upgradable. Apple does offer a 4GB RAM option at the time of purchase, but if you opt for only 2GB and decide you want more RAM later you'll be out of luck.
Our advice? Go for 4GB.
After removing eight T5 screws, the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU is the only thing remaining that affixes the heat sink to the motherboard.
The heat sink on the new MacBook Air is considerably smaller than all previous models. It weighs only 10 grams. Based on the tiny heat sink, it seems that the Ultra-Low Voltage 1.4 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU is a cool chip.
Nope, it is soldered to the board.
The logic board:
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.4 GHz processor
NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics
2GB of Elpida J1108EFBG-AE-F RAM
With the help of a plastic opening tool, the speakers come out next. These stereo units pump out... well... some mad wattage, probably around 1-2W.
The back of the trackpad has a Broadcom BCM5976A0K chip on it as well as a Cypress CY8C24x94-24L PSoC chip.
The CY PSoC chip is likely responsible for the multi-touch capabilities on the trackpad as it has touch capability and has been found on many MacBook trackpads.
The board is cleverly grounded by little arms extending from the metal trackpad hinges.
We can now remove the display from the lower case.
The 11.6" MacBook Air features a resolution of 1366x768. That's a few more pixels and noticeably more widescreen (16x9 vs 16x10) than the 1280x800 resolution of previous Air models.
The bigger display in the second picture is from the earlier generation MacBook Air. If you look carefully, you'll see that Apple's removed the microphone from the display assembly. The microphone now lives in the body of the computer, right next to the headphone jack.
MacBook Air 11" Late 2010 Repairability: 4 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair).
Once you manage to take off the bottom cover, all the parts are pretty easily replaceable.
Opening the bottom cover is quite difficult if you don't have the right screwdriver. It's clear that Apple didn't want people to open their machine.
All the components -- including RAM and hard drive -- are proprietary, meaning that no off-the-shelf parts will work in it without serious rigging.
If you're fortunate enough to have a more repairable Apple device, we've got you covered. We sell parts and tools to keep your Macs, iPods, and iPhones running smoothly.
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Would something like this work to replace the SSD Card (though I guess it wouldn't be much of an upgrade due to its capacity)? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...
Please note the "Odd" Torx is called a "security torx" screw. There are two versions: a fived-lobed torx and a "High Security Torx" which is a five-lobed torx with a center metal pin coming out of it. Security torx is easy to find, high security is VERY hard to find but I've seen sources in automobile repair in the UK which uses these in some auto parts. Otherwise the company that makes the screws control tool distribution.
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Why didn't apple just add a bunch more cells on that black plastic block. Like essentially make the whole thing battery as opposed to have six batteries but holes in the middle?
Caramba! Espero que vocês tenham conseguido remontar esse Air. Desculpem a preocupação, mas o lado péssimo de ser macmaníaco é que a gente começa a ver as máquinas como brinquedos do Toy Story... hehehe!
Sorry, I put a message in portuguese. Now I will try to translate it:
"Wow! I hope you have managed to reassemble this Air! Sorry for the concern but the worst side of being Macmaniac is that we start to see the machines as toys like those from Toy Story..."
Probably you should search google for "PhotoFast GM2 SFV1 Air", or have a look at this :
Sounds good for SSD replacement !
Just curious if you guys have a breakdown on the weight of this, i.e. how much weight is in the aluminum shell,batteries, and the actual computing components?
Do you know what king of camera is mounted and do you know if we can upgrade it ?
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Police are looking for a burglary suspect who jumped into a canal to flee officers in Sunrise Thursday morning.
The incident began around 3 a.m. when an officer spotted a man trying to cut the storm shutters of a closed farm store at the corner of Sunset Strip and Northwest 12th Court, Sunrise Police spokeswoman Cindi McCue said.
When the suspect saw the officer, he jumped into a canal that was about 30 feet from the store, McCue said.
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Dive teams, K-9 units and a police helicopter searched the area but were unable to locate the man, McCue said. The search was called off after about five hours.
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I am always much more interested in hearing what people with "skin in the game" have to say about almost any topic, and you can't get anymore genuinely invested in results than leaders in combat. The Field Manual has many things going for it:
- It is battle-tested--literally. Over the years, ideas that don't work got weaned out because they could lead to people dying.
- It is written in clear, simple, and direct language. There is no hint of a consultant or professor trying to impress you with the sophistication or originality of his or her ideas, and it is not filled with the self-glorifying tales of ex-CEOs. It is written in simple, declarative sentences that leave no room for ambiguity. Its authors' goals are to clearly and unambiguously share important knowledge.
- It acknowledges that different skills are needed at different levels of any hierarchy and different stages of one's career. It clearly articulates those stages, making it easy to find what qualities are necessary given your leadership circumstances.
My shelves are filled with hundreds of books on leadership; this is the one I keep returning to. If you are a leader or work with leaders, add it to your shelf too.
The US Army Leadership Manual is, I believe, a public-domain publication. The version I have was edited and produced by McGraw Hill in 2004.


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Derma-E has changed their packaging for their products. In my opinion, I love the look of the new packaging, but you can decide for yourself on this one.
The original packaging is on the left and the new packaging is on the right. I think the new packaging just looks cleaner. You'll have to let me know what you think on this one.
The products are still the same GMO free, 100% Vegan, cruelty free, gluten free, and soy free products that you love. They only changed the packaging. In working this year toward a more green lifestyle, this product fits right in there.
The scent of both the day and night cream is amazing! It's a light, clean scent that is just wonderful. I love that the scent is not strong because I have never been one to wear anything with a strong scent. So these are perfect!
After applying them I love the way my skin feels. So soft. I wish that I could tell you that it will help with fine lines, but I haven't been using it long enough to notice a difference yet, but the way my skin feels is reason enough for me to continue using this one.
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Arkansas House Speaker Davy Carter says the House and Senate are working to develop between $50 million and $60 million in tax cuts in each chamber.
The House on Monday passed the first of its proposed tax reductions, one that would benefit poultry and catfish producers. Carter, a Republican from Cabot, says there are still no specifics available on what state spending will be cut.
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Photographing Architecture is Still Not a Crime, Police Harrasment at 45 Fremont Street
So I know that I write a lot about being harassed for my photography on the streets of San Francisco and for some this story may be getting old. I shoot every day though and at least once or twice a month have a run in with a security guard or authority figure of some sort somewhere. Typically I can resolve these episodes on my own amicably with the individual involved, but sometimes things go over the line. In the past year I've blogged about three of these incidents that crossed the line. One was when a security guard at One Bush was following me around the sidewalk trying to put his hand in front of my camera and not allowing me to shoot the building. Another was when the Sheriff's Department detained me and ran what I consider an illegal background check on me merely for shooting near the train tracks in Oakland. Another was when a particular nasty altercation took place between me and a security guard who came out of 45 Fremont middle finger a'blazin' to insist that I not shoot that building.
But today's episode was the worst I've encountered so far. Ironically enough, it occurred once again outside of 45 Fremont Street. This was even after I spoke with a PR person from the Shorenstein owned property who apologized to me for my treatment and assured me that I would find a more tolerant atmosphere at that property in the future.
Today, aqui-ali (another local Flickr photographer), helveticaneue (in from out of town) and I went out to do a bit of shooting. Since Aqui had a meeting down on 2nd Street later this afternoon we decided to head that way and shoot the Transbay Terminal. 45 Fremont was in our path and we were shooting some photos of it as we were walking by. It was then that the security guard there told us that we could not shoot the building. When I explained that we were in a public area and had a right to shoot the building he insisted and called another security guard over on his radio who also tried to get us to stop taking pictures of the building. I still refused as it is my right to shoot buildings in San Francisco from a public area.
45 Fremont Security Guard and "Police Officer" who refused to provide identification after physically asaulting me.
It was at this point that things went from bad to worse. At this point an individual came over who identified himself as a police officer and told us to get out of the plaza, off the sidewalk and to physically stand on the asphalt in the street where the cars were driving by. When I tried to object this individual (who was significantly larger than me) assaulted me and forcibly grabbed my arm quite hard and pulled me towards the street. When I freed myself from his grip I told him that I was going to take his photograph. He told me that I could not take his photograph and that if I did that I could "watch what would happen to my camera."
I took his photograph anyways and that is him up there at the top of the story. Once he had us physically on the asphalt in the traffic off the sidewalk I once again asked him for his identification and asked to see his badge. He refused to provide me his identification and refused to show me his badge. It is my understanding that when someone identifies themselves as a police officer that I have a right to see their identification proving this fact. This prevents anyone from falsely impersonating police officers and abusing a false authority. I asked him at least five times to see his badge and he refused. He continued to confer with the security guards at the building though.
I believe that this individual either committed an illegal act by illegally impersonating a police officer or by acting in the capacity of a police officer while refusing to provide me proof or his badge when asked. Worse, he physically assaulted me and threatened me. I've even got a bruise and a pretty sore arm where he grabbed me.
This should not happen just because a hobbyist decides to take photographs of a building from a public area on the streets of San Francisco. This was abuse. I do not know in what capacity this individual was working with security at 45 Fremont but they were complicit and also forced us to stand off the sidewalk on the street asphalt. helveticaneue and aqui-ali were both present and witnessed this happening as well.
Update: I just received an email back from my contact from my previous run in with 45 Fremont with The Shorenstein Company who told me that while his security guards witnessed the incident that it was actually the security guards at 50 Beale Street and *not* the Shorenstein guards that I had this problem with today. He also told me that he thinks this "policeman" is a security officer working for a tenant in that building. If anyone knows which tenant that this might be at 50 Beale I'd appreciate that information. I am also going to try and contact management of 50 Beale to hopefully work this situation out.
Update #2: Today I:
1. Filed a police report. The case has been assigned to an Officer O'Reily. I have his phone number and will be checking in with him on the progress. I also confirmed with the desk officer at the Tenderloin Police Station (the closest to my work) that if a citizen requests ID from a police officer that an officer is required to provide it. This officer also told me that it is department policy not to touch someone without first showing your badge. He told me that he did not think that this individual was a police officer and that he did not recognize him.
2. I stopped by the building and spoke with Brad Meyers, the property manager. According to Brad, the individual in the photograph as well as the security guard assisting the individual in the photograph do not work for the building. Brad told me that he believed that the individual who assaulted me worked for Bechtel but did not know his name. Brad also appologized to me for the incident and told me that photography in fact is allowed in the public park area next to 50 Beale St. He said that occasionally protocol will be to have a photographer sign a waiver to release the building from any liability should they injure themselves but that it was not protocol to force photographers into the street as had been done to me. He has put a call in with Bechtel's security and is going to follow up with me later.
Brad also told me that Bechtel does not own the building but is a tenant.
3. I spoke today with Mike Meehan who is Vice President and Assistant General Council for Allied Barton Security Services, the company that employed the gentleman who originally requested that I not take photographs. Mike is on the East Coast and has put a call in to his West Coast office to try and determine what happened from their perspective. He is going to be in contact with me and will follow up with me on this. I asked him if he would provide me the name of the individual for my police report if he is an employee of their company and he said that he would need to take that under adviseme
Will continue to update with details as available.
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In response to my run in with an unidentified individual who identified himself as a police officer, assaulted me and refused to show me identification as a police officer, I received this letter from Bechtel Corporation yesterday.
I have again asked for the name of the individual who identified himself as a police officer and requested Bechtel tell me what if any disciplinary action was taken against this individual.
While Bechtel still refuses to confirm whether or not the individual who harrassed and assaulted me is an employee of theirs, it is probably fair to assume that they would not be sending an apology letter were he not. I will continue to pursue this though and am confident that I will be able to get more information with regards to this case.


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Kristin Kreuk: Getting Hitched with Jack Carpenter!
Smallville alum Kristin Kreuk has landed a role in a new CBS comedy pilot, Hitched.
The 27-year-old actress will star opposite I Love You Beth Cooper actor Jack Carpenter in the story of a newly married couple still learning about each other while surrounded by their family and friends. Eugene Levy was recently cast to play the groom's father, according to THR.
The pilot comes from Chuck and Gossip Girl mastermind Josh Schwartz! Looks like he was impressed with Kristin's work on Chuck!


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Sustainability Assessment of a Biorefinery Complex in Thailand
AbstractIn this paper, a biorefinery complex in Thailand was assessed vis-à-vis sustainability. The complex studied includes plantations of sugarcane and a biorefinery system composed of several units including, a sugar mill, power plant, ethanol factory and fertilizer plant. The assessment aimed at evaluating the environmental and socio-economic implications relating to molasses-based ethanol production and use, and maximized utilization of the biomass materials produced as part of the biorefinery complex. Global warming potential, human development index and total value added are the three indicators that were selected to perform the assessment. The results obtained revealed that the maximization of biomass utilization at the level of the biorefinery complex provide greenhouse gases emissions reduction benefits, enhanced living conditions for sugarcane farmers and employees of the biorefinery, and economic benefits, particularly with regard to profit and income generation. These results could serve as a first step to further improve and design indicators for sustainability assessment of biomass utilization. View Full-Text
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Peak Oil – "The Debate is Over"
It's been a long time coming, but the uber-significant Peak Oil issue has finally started to infiltrate the corridors of power. What they'll do with this information remains to be seen….
There is no reason for optimism. — Dr. James Schlesinger (former Secretary of Defence and the U.S.'s first Secretary of Energy)
I made mention recently of the leaked German Military Peak Oil study (German PDF here, key points summarised in English here) which looked at the Peak Oil issue from a national security standpoint. Now the New Zealand government has created their own study — releasing it publicly, rather than forcing some conscientious and concerned person to have to sneak it out the back door.
The summary findings of the study are almost word-for-word with what I wrote a long time ago (here and here for example).
Although there remain large reserves of oil which can be extracted, the world's daily capacity to extract oil cannot keep increasing indefinitely. A point will be reached where it is not economically and physically feasible to replace the declining production from existing wells and add new production fast enough for total production capacity to increase. Projections from the IEA and other groups have this occurring, at least temporarily, as soon as 2012.
The difference between the global capacity to produce oil and global demand is the supply buffer. When the supply buffer is large, oil prices will be low. When the supply buffer shrinks – due to demand rising faster than production capacity or production capacity falling – prices will rise as markets add in the risk that supply will not be available to meet demand at any given point in time.
When a supply crunch forces oil prices beyond a certain point, the cost of oil forces consumers and businesses to cut other spending, inducing a recession. The recession destroys demand for oil, allowing prices to drop. Major international organisations are warning of another supply crunch as soon as 2012.
The world may be entering an era defined by relatively short periods of economic growth terminating in oil price spikes and recession.
New Zealand is not immune to the consequences of this situation. In fact, its dependency on bulk exports and tourism makes New Zealand very vulnerable to oil shocks. — The Next Oil Shock? Parliamentary Library Research Paper (emphasis added)
What we're talking about is, quite simply, perpetual recession:
There is a risk that the world economy may be at the start of a cycle of supply crunches leading to price spikes and recessions, followed by recoveries leading to supply crunches. — The Next Oil Shock? Parliamentary Library Research Paper
With its humble military base, I can't see New Zealand attacking Nigeria or Venezuela, so considering transition to a steady state, post-carbon economy could (should) be on the cards.
The New Zealand study brings similar findings as a UK study from earlier in the year — The Oil Crunch – a wake-up call for the UK economy — except with updated data it's moved the forcasted crunch forward from 2015 to 2012, which I personally believe to be a far more realistic timeframe.
The fuel that lubricates the wheels of modern life, and that supports a population that's multiplied fourfold since its discovery, is now becoming increasingly uneconomic to mine and we're now looking in geological nooks and crannies we would never have considered even 15 years ago. This black gold has been with us for the entire lifetimes of all living today, and our dependence on it has grown radically with every decade. It is estimated that at present rates of development and consumption we would, if it was available, use as much oil in the next 25 years as we've used in the last 160 — somewhere around 1 to 1.3 trillion barrels. With the EROEI (Energy Returned on Energy Invested) for oil mining (I can't help but wonder if we'd be in this mess if we'd called it 'mining' from the start, instead of the disingenuous term 'production') far lower today than in previous generations and increasingly unviable you can be sure our economies will collapse before we'll get anywhere near close to sucking up those kind of quantities.
Some of the world's largest economies also happen to be the biggest oil importers (think the U.S., China, UK, Germany, France, Japan, etc.). The global economic knock-on effects of these guys effectively trying to out-bid each other for supplies of crude will be immense — particularly when oil and gas exporting nations realise the need to stockpile reserves to soften their own fall into a post-carbon world.
Saudi Arabia has stopped exploration missions of new oil fields to save the wealth and pass it on to future generations, King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, said here Thursday. — SaudiGazette.com.sa
If you happen to live in a nation with neither a powerful economy nor its own oil reserves, your country will be left by the wayside as the business as usual mentality urges those nations still able to to persevere on into darkness. Perhaps being 'left by the wayside' has some consolation, however, in that if you happened to, instead, live in a country with oil, don't be surprised to see your people labelled as terrorists and your borders invaded. The only encouraging thing in this regard is that wars are terrifically oil-dependent and thus will be uber-expensive. The EROEI ratio for war will, as we descend the peak oil summit, become even more absurd than it is today.
Just to be clear — a 2008 type price spike, when repeated in today's seriously weakened economic situation, will cause significant social trauma. And, people are increasingly realising, there will be no end to this trauma. It will be ongoing, and relentless, and all constructive efforts to rebuild society along sustainable lines will be hampered by limited resources, limited capital, social unrest and collapsing social infrastructure. It's time for lucid people worldwide to ensure these things are in the minutes of council meetings where they live.
Not only have we been taking finite supplies of oil for granted but we just do not realise how difficult it will be to live without it. None of us lived pre-oil — we're far removed from the horse and cart, subsistence farming age that was the foundation of civilisation before — but we may well live post-oil. Most of us are spoilt, soft, individualistic and highly trained for a world that was, and that will never be again.
Consider where you reside, and what your village/town/city will look like with 20, or 40, or 60% unemployment, or worse. Consider the vulnerabilities of supply lines to your town. Consider your housing needs, and what it will mean if you cannot make rental or mortgage payments. And remember, in our current system — where perpetual growth economics is regarded as the only game worth playing — people without money are outsiders. If you cannot consume, you have no value in this system. As people fall off the edge of economic activity, the game will continue with a decreasing pool of wealthy players: oligarchs, corporate feudalists, mafia — whatever you want to call them. Governments may bail out big industry, but they won't come to your rescue. This is evidenced by the suburbs of foreclosed homes in the U.S. — some being 'retrieved' by nature while their former residents struggle in tenements, trailers or their cars.
I've been sharing these things on the internet for more than four years, and others have for far longer — yet governments are ponderous and pathetic even to see and understand these issues, let alone do something about it. As many of you know, Cuba's 'Special Period' is a microcosm of what we can expect, to varying degrees of severity, to occur. The same holds true of the panic and economic turmoil of the 1970s OPEC embargo era. Along the lines of what Castro did in the early 1990s, ideally governments would today enact policies that incentivise transition, and that make sustainable primary production of all human needs (food, water, shelter, clothing, etc.) the most financially attractive endeavours to be trained for and involved in. However, while we should be agitating for holistic, future-minded leadership, a reliance/trust in centralised decision-making reactions to these realities would be misplaced. At present all industry-owned government seems to know to do is try to maintain the status quo — beating the impossibly dead horse of economic growth that only exacerbates the pressure on oil supplies. Despite acknowledgements that we're entering an era of acute energy shortages, the world's leaders do not seem capable of considering anything else.
We must learn how to observe, plan and work together to find peaceful, tangible solutions, and now. It seems to me that mankind will now, right now, either learn lessons of humble, objective cooperation and voluntary simplicity, or we'll all go up in smoke in a final every man for himself free-for-all over the dregs of the world's remaining stores of energy, food and land — and while we're doing that we'll move to the most destructive 'sources' of liquid fuels there is (tar sands, coal to liquids, biofuels, shale oil….).
The first thing you can do to secure your own future is to share this information.
I'll leave you to ponder these things as you watch the following talks from the ASPO 2010 Peak Oil Conference held between October 7-9, 2010 in Washington:
Secretary of Energy): The Peak Oil Debate is Over
(More from Dr. Schlesinger here)
Watch the rest here — including:
- Jeff Rubin (Former chief economist for CIBC World Markets): Oil and the End of Globalisation
- Lawrence Rice (U.S. Navy Rear Admiral): Energy and National Security
- Dave Murphy: Analysis from The Oil Drum
- Jeff Vail: Rescuing Suburbia
…and more.
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Very timely article Craig, when I was down doing my internship at the PRI I was banging on a fair bit about the economic problems that will hit us as the most imminent of the challenges we face going forward. While I'm not saying all the other challenges we face are not of the utmost importance, the economics of the society we live in or on the edge of are very close to serious disruption and we as permaculturists should be amongst those that are most open to this idea. After all we get peak oil, we get biodiversity loss, we get the unsustainable nature of modern agriculture and we get global warming. What I found amongst a lot of the Permies (and this is in no way a critism guys and gals) though ,is that a lot aren't acting on that knowledge whith regard to getting themselves up to speed on the greater detail of how these challenges are going to effect the economics of their daily lives. I'm sure most of us have had the situation where we are trying to explain peak oil or climate change to someone who we soon realize just don't believe it or just can't let
themselves believe it ( which is probably more accurate) regardless, I'm not going to delve into the psychology of it but there seems an unwillingness to take the information on board .
What we as permaculturists need to do to protect ourselves and those around us is to start getting ourselves up to speed on the economics of the coming financial storm as it is the most imminent threat by far, how many of us would have food if the bank where we kept our money collapsed ? How many could buy the things we need to set ourselves up for a more sustainable life if the banks collapsed ? How many of us could
service debt on a mortgage if the banks collapse and we had no job because unemployment was climbing
above 22 percent , this is much of America today.
A case in point . From the information I had read on the web regarding the financial implications of peak oil, debt saturation and all the other nasties coming our way we decided to sell our house and change our superannuation fund to a self managed fund. The decision to sell the house was because long term we knew it wasn't where we wanted to live. All this occurred directly prior to the market crash in 2008 . The direct result was we didn't lose nearly 20-25 percent of our super because we had the money sitting under our control in a bank account and quite a bit as mad money ie cash for a rainy day. After a few months the house prices and rental prices started to drop and what had been a boom market dried up . Then not long after that the redundancies started getting handed out. When ,not if but when, we have the next leg down in our economic contraction this is how it will play out in a lot of places all over the world , it's already happening in the US and because I live in a mining town here in Australia we got a little taste as the US economy slowed in 08 , which stopped them buying consumer goods , which reduced demand for raw materials which Australia provides , and presto! Economic hardship coming to a town near you. Because we had made our arrangments more resilient we weren't really affected , but many people in the town we severly hit . But of course how soon we forget, things picked up ,houses are up to their old exorbitant prices the mines rehired even more people (many who it had just given redundancies to) and business as usual is back in place .
But tell me how secure would you feel in a town cut of by wet season floods for up to six months of the year, where all your food comes in by road or barge from nearly 1000 klm away, and the local power is generated by diesel engines that are also supplied fuel by ship from over 1000 klm away. NOT VERRY .
So were moving of course, but my point in all of this is get yourselves informed and keep informed.
A couple of great links are
http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/. And. http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/
People get yourselves informed ! We don't have a lot of time and you can't be as effective in educating and training others unless you look after yourselves first.
Instead of pleading with my local council/city commissioners, I think I will continue increasing my farm's productivity and gaining skills in that area. This is motivated by a host of, dare I admit it, "individualistic" factors, potential profit being one of them.
I might share this info with people who might actually use it, which won't be local government 'leaders.'
JBob – if the focus is on profit, we'll not change our course. It's what led us here.
What will get us through this is cooperation – and community cooperation must happen at a community level. That means village/town/city council meetings. In what other way can we possibly discuss and action change?
The deceptive thing about "Peak Oil" is that it is not at all about oil. More accurately, it's the end of a big illusion. Specifically, the illusion that we could use our natural capital of high quality fuels in a way that does not take the effects of depletion into account.
It's high time we take a very close look at who worked hard to keep that illusion afloat for so long. The difficult issue of course is that, while five years ago, people may have whispered "peak oil", there was a massive psychological barrier to accepting it and openly talking about it. Widespread phenomenon, I have vivid memories of that.
If energy gets scarce, then evidently, what we do with it while there is still a lot of it available matters more than what we decide to do when the shortage really bites. Personally, I'd consider the two key priorities to be:
1. Identify those people, beliefs, and mechanisms that got us into the situation.
2. Work hard to ensure decision making improves. We just cannot afford any more collossal mistakes – they would become prohibitively painful. This may well mean the end of both the neoclassical economic model and the careers of its professional proponents.
what we do with it while there is still a lot of it available matters more than what we decide to do when the shortage really bites.
Right on the mark Thomas. We've got to organise.
one thing to keep in mind though is that there will be a vicious rapid learning phase where people learn to value energy.
One of the first large consuming activities to be severely curtailed will be home heating – it just produces minimal economic value for the energy expended. Now, one can do a lot with better insulation and living in smaller space, but a number of people will be driven to learn more about energy by having to shiver more in winter.
I see a very real danger that the cultural response to this could be along the lines predicted by Jay Hanson (http://dieoff.org/page181.htm):
Well-intended activists from both the Left and Right — armed with facts and ideologies — will form political movements, select the best liars for leaders, and take to the streets demanding that government take us back to "the good old days". The worse our problems become, the more they will act instead of think. The less they think, the worse our problems will become.
I am fairly sure that this is what can be expected in terms of a reaction to the problem by certain parts of society with serious judgment deficits. Two problems are that many of these are disproportionately loud bullies, while most of the rest of society doesn't actually know how to properly deal with bullies. We might not be able to address the first problem directly, but there is a lot we can do about the second. I think we seriously have to – or it's pretty much curtains.
jbob just don't get caught in the trap of thinking you can go it alone , it won't be a very pleasant life , as to pleading with local councils etc it's almost a case of why bother, I think low level civil disobedience along the lines of getting building permission etc will become rife in years to come , it's ground up all the way I fear !
Thomas the thing most peak oil commentators don't get is that peak finance in the end will bring on the hurt of peak oil much faster as finance for oil drilling ,infrastructure etc dries up in the face of capital disappearing from the markets and diminishing returns.
Find a strong resilient community become a part of it divert as many monetary transactions as possible to trade / barter etc , get out of debt, and hold as much cash as possible as we are heading dowm a deflationary path over the next few years and cash will be king for those essential things that we need out of the monetary economy. Please all check out the automatic earth specifically the primers and get up to speed.
an important point to be aware of is that we Germans have had one extra – and quite painful – culture collapse in recent history which shaped our collective cultural memory, namely the end of the Third Reich (thank heavens). I've started about a decade ago doing some serious research into what it meant to live in 1946, in a completely collapsed economy (remember, every last bit of resources got diverted to preventing the inevitable – which was losing the war).
Now, people in Germany by and large are not aware that that country is producing more electricity from renewable resources these days than what people had to get on with during the second half of the 40s, say. That wasn't a pleasant time, for sure, but the way I see it is that some countries such as Germany so far already have made far better strategic decisions than others, and hence in comparison will do better than others. The way I see it, renewable energy will mostly be "the gold of the 21st century", and we may see a phase where we have to constrain personal energy consumption viciously to have sufficient energy available to rebuild the energy sector on saner principles. There will be a transition phase, and what nations did achieve so far will depend how well they will manage.
Still, one alarming observation is that the Peak Oil study by the German Military which Craig mentioned seriously got that point wrong. Let me quote from the introduction:
Allerdings besteht eine gewisse Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass der Peak Oil bereits um das Jahr 2010 zu verorten ist und sicherheitspolitische Auswirkungen je nach Entwicklung der hierbei global relevanten Faktoren mit einer Verzögerung von 15 bis 30 Jahren erwartet werden können.
"There is a certain probability that Peak Oil will happen around 2010, and depending on how relevant global factors play out, we can expect security related effects with a delay of 15-30 years."
They got a few other very important points fairly wrong as well, but there still is quite some useful material in that study.
Yes, how they can possibly think security will become an issue only 15 years after economic collapse is a rather interesting calculation. Thomas – you're a mathematician, give me the probability.
Great post Craig. But I'm not sure this is correct (unfortunately):
"The EROEI ratio for war will, as we descend the peak oil summit, become even more absurd than it is today."
I think you might be underestimating our governments' ability to justify its warmongering. After all – what better way for a demagogue politician to deal with all those unemployed masses then send them off on a unwinnable war.
Here's a pertinent comment from theoildrum.com – I think the poster is only being half-sarcastic:
"I think your shorting the military. They will figure out how to kill people. If smart weapons become difficult to deploy and I agree with your basic thesis then we will go back to more brutal methods. Probably the US will work on perfecting city wide firestorms napalm on steroids. If petroleum based incindery weapons become the premier ones the irony is interesting to say the least.
In any case I'm sure that the military of most nations is up to the task of killing people for the cheapest price possible worst case they will simply adopt the machete method refined in Africa and killing people can be done for about the same cost as cutting sugar cane to fuel the cars of the wealthy. Assuming a Machete Killer costs about 2-3 dollars a day but can cover most of his costs looting the homes of the people he killed I can't see why killing people can't even be done for a profit.
For wealthier countries you can sell your older weapons systems and mass produce the simpler ones to cover your costs but we already do that in fact one of the problems in the future is we have so saturated the world with guns and bullets it may be hard for military to even use this approach to cut the costs of killing people. Of course localized shortages of bullets in conflict areas along with aggressive recycling of military waste and indeed moving to more recycling friendly arms should really help. I could see a lot of the renewable concepts being picked up by future armies to keep kill ratios high as budgets are cut.
Of course the army that finally figures out how to make delectable dishes and fuel out of its victims will do quite well in fact I could easily see some armies resort to rendering the killed to fuel their tanks and as and added bonus they can sell the leftovers to organic farmers. I'm not sure exactly what the energy and fertilizer value is for a human corpse but its got to be fairly decent fat Americans would probably be sold for a premium.
So overall esp if you consider moving to more sustainable killing methods and heavy use of recycling I don't see much problem for the military keeping its killing efficiency high for many decades to come.
We have not even begun to really work on the problem so lots of low hanging fruit out there or in this case you would probably call it low hanging heads."
Cyrus, you aren't the first person to come up with the idea of soylent biodiesel.
No, maybe I beat Cyrus to the punch there. From June 2007:
> Cyrus, you aren't the first person to come up with the idea of soylent biodiesel.
Mate, I was just quoting theoildrum.com – one of the best sites on the web for peak-oil discussions. Those guys have been thinking about these issues for a very long time. Some of them since the '70s.
By the way Ed Straker – I really like your blog.
Most permaculturalists tend to be fairly positive and optimistic people and there's nothing wrong with that. But when it gets to the point that they flat-out refuse to consider a pessimistic future they go from being merely optimistic to delusional.
back in 1946, when Russian troops were about to occupy Vienna, the Nazis tried to blow up all bridges over the river Danube in an effort to prevent the inevitable for another two or three days. However, most people clearly saw that the war was lost, and that doing so would complicate recovery enormously. The resistance managed to thwart all attempts by the Nazis to destroy the last bridge.
We are in a very similar situation today: mad ideologists keep on trying to push the inevitable a few months further into the future, making recovery much more difficult in doing so. At some point, the population won't allow that anymore.
> At some point, the population won't allow that anymore.
I don't disagree with you Thomas. I just fear that that point is still far off in the future. Maybe after WWIII?
above everything else, it's in *our* hands.
It seems, to me, that the most effective strategy we have is formation of true community. What this entails is simply getting to know and level with those who live in direct radius to where you live. This doesn't mean connecting with only people who agree with you or are part of your clique. Community does not equal monoculture of ideas, lifestyles or belief systems.
Second, and perhaps even more important, seems to be the method and course of dissensus. It seems most strategic to move past the consensus model (this of course does not mean that there is no place for consensus) — to do what we find to be correct and right in our personal situations in regards to the knowledge we have on the energy situation and the resources we have in our reach. We cannot alarm the whole world or hard sell anyone on our ideas (well, yes we can hard sell our ideas, but it seems very ineffective and perhaps degenerative in the long term). If we attempt to turn peak oil action into a religious or revitalization movement, what will we gain in the long run? From a systems standpoint that does not seem very strategic or leveraging. I've found John Michael Greer's writings on the topic of peak oil to be the most profound and helpful insight of any other writings out there. Perhaps you could pop a link to his essays on dissensus into the end of a post on peak oil? Dissensus and Organic Process & Why Dissensus Matters
Craig, "if the focus is on profit, we'll not change our course. It's what led us here."
The focus need not be on profit, but without profit we will get nowhere.
"1. Identify those people, beliefs, and mechanisms that got us into the situation."
Thomas, I just finished reading the book "Det Biologiske Mennesket", and it's facinating how far the sience of human behaviour ecology has come to identify those people, beliefs and mecanisms.
"The focus need not be on profit, but without profit we will get nowhere."
JBob, the focus can't be on profit, but on making a yield of natural capital. Capitalism plays on egoism, while tribalism plays on our tribal pattern from Rift Walley. In fact, the tribal pattern is also a result of our egoistic gene, to bring our genes to further generations. But an egoism with a positiv sign.
What a time to come of age.
I am in my 60s and my parents had me in their forties. Their childhoods were pre-oil, pre-cars, pre-electricity and I have to tell you that got on just fine! They worked hard yes, but they had organic gardens and were healthy, there was a good community spirit, with people dropping in on one another, dances, etc and depression was rare. Perhaps it's nothing to fear after all, although I concede we will have to ensure that people have access to land. Perhaps that's a good thing, too, as we restore equality in our society.
"Sargas provides solutions for ultra low emission power generation from Fossil Fuels. Our patented designs capture 95% of the CO2 and virtually eliminate NOx & SOx emissions, whether applied to greenfield or retro-fitted plants."
I'm afraid we're entering the coal age again: http://www.sargas.no/
1,8 kW in, 24 kW out, claims the Austrian company Best Board their new heating central can achieve: http://www.rorfag.no/article/20101014/NYHETER/101019985/1044&ExpNodes=1003
Too good to be true? Sorry I couldn't find any information in English.
Heat pump performance is usually measured in HSPF (Heating Seasonal Performance Factor) – a very strange and perhaps deliberately misleading ratio of heat out to electricity in which measures output and input in different energy units (BTU vs. Wh).
If you want the actual ratio (heat out : work in) where heat and work are measured in the same energy units, you have to multiply a HSPF with 0.293.
Typical HSPF is somewhat over 7.5, often below 8. The best heat pumps on the market have a HSPF of about 10. That corresponds to (heat out:work in) between 2.2 and 2.9. Now, as the production of electrical work from fuel in an engine only gives us about 1 Joule of work for 3 Joules of fuel burnt, there is little point in using a heat pump unless you also harvest the waste heat from electricity generation – essentially: produce your own electricity.
This machine claims to achieve (heat out:work in) of 13.3, or a HSPF of better than 45. While this does not actually violate the laws of physics yet (max possible theoretical efficiency for pumping heat from 5 Celsius to 20 Celsius is about 19.5), it is an extraordinary claim, and quite likely an "accounting trick". I wouldn't believe it unless I see independent measurements.
But we've gone far off-topic here…
Thank you for information! Well, I think its on-topic as it's important to save oil for heating. If this heating central keeps what it promises it will also be easier to be self sufficient from self produced electricity, as you will need significantly less of it to heat your house and hot water. The Austrians are serious people, so I think their claims might be true.
Save oil for heating?! Now let's see…
By and large, we heat our homes so that our possessions have it warm. Mostly, we waste a lot of oil because we own a lot of stuff we actually do use very rarely and also believe that it better always should be warm as well.
So, if we were serious about living with considerably less oil, reducing personal possessions to what one actually uses and needs would be the first important step. To us as a society, it would be a fairly big step, but isn't the problem actually a lot about us being afraid of big steps?
Next, we are just not used anymore to more appropriate indoor temperatures. To me, 10 degrees is quite okay even without winter clothing, but most people would consider that insane. I don't think our ancestors would – it would have been pretty much normal reality for them.
Third, the age of cheap fossil fuels kind-of started at about the time when we just learned about the physics of heat and electricity. Joule's law about electric heating in resistors was discovered in 1840. These days, we can do many things very easily our ancestors could not as they didn't know the physics – we just never bothered to give it some thought, as convenient cheap fuel was "too easy to get".
I'm fairly sure we will soon see electrically heated vests that magnetically connect to special sockets a la Apple Macintosh notebooks. Can certainly be done for well under $100. Let's conservatively estimate heating power as 40 Watts (body heat for a non-obese adult man of 1.80 m should be ca. 80 Watts), and assume constant round-the-clock heating. That's pretty much one kilowatt-hour per day. Over – say – five cold months, that's then about 150 kWh. That much electric energy is contained in about 60 liters of diesel oil. That's about as much as the average German uses to heat about 4 m^2 of his flat over the year.
So, we could easily reduce heating costs by a factor 10 here. Given that the value of the mechanical work contained in one liter of oil is over $1000 of that work had to be done by a human, I think that's a smart thing to do.
Dear PRI, please please get together with a few people and see that you add such vests to your store – rather than just selling books. You could make a serious amount of money that way. You certainly have the right audience to find quite a few customers for such a product among them.
Maybe I meant save oil from heating? All these English prepositions are a big confuse for me. Also I think it's a problem people have changed their clothes from warm wool to cotton. A lower indoor temperature is surely better for your throat, as hot air during winter times dries out your mucosa.
– Coal Prices May Rise Sooner Than Anyone Expects As Global Reserves Revised Downward: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/11/coal-prices-may-rise-sooner-than-anyone-expects-global-reserve-estimates-revised.php
The debate is over once more, according to a study in Nature peak-oil was back in 2005: http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-01-26/article-in-nature-oils-tipping-point-has-passed
Craig, though your article seems to be self explanatory few realize that the problem of extinguishing oil reserves is even deeper than one can think. It is a political-economic problem. Political economy is defined by the British Encyclopedia as a totally forgotten science. The central question of the political economy is the definition of capital. The modern definition of capital suggested by text books on economy or economics raises a smile or may provoke a burst of laughter.
Today we can prove that EVERYTHING is energy. Life is the additional energy gained by energy expenses of a living organism in regard of a corresponding energy resource. Economy is a collective effort of living organisms (and not only human!) to obtain, store and redistribute the energy gained above individual consumption. Politics is an inherent part of every economy dealing with the redistribution of energy. Politics totally depends on the volumes of energy gained by a society or its ability to get energy from an external source. Actually one can draw some persistent laws idrntifying the behavior of societies depending on availability of energy with them.
Oil has been the main source of energy practically throughout the twentieth century. Oil as a liquid, easily stored, transported and preserved source of energy cannot be replaced nowadays by so called "alternative" sources. There is no alternative for oil in the next 20-50 years. Humanity will have to survive during this period of time. The reason for that is simple and has nothing to do with the intentions of individuals or governments. The molecule of oil contains more hydrogen than any other hydrocarbon except gas. Gas has no volume so it has a limited use in its gaseous form. We use the hydrogen heat capacity that is the highest among other known elements in the Universe to be converted into the kinetic energy to move our heavy vehicles at a great speed. The conversion takes place in the combustion engines.
Hydrogen is used in full while carbon that has a much smaller heat capacity is used only partially while most of it is ejected into the atmosphere with oxygen causing pollution. So, oil is the most ecologically friendly fuel in existence because it contains less carbon and more hydrogen than coal or plants ( as well as any other biological fuel). Every hydrocarbon may be technically converted into another hydrocarbon. But here comes the problem of EROEI. An elementary physics text book will tell you that it takes more energy to separate hydrogen from other elements than the energy you get in a molecule created through the merger of hydrocarbon with other elements, namely carbon. Most of hydrogen is used in any conversion. The Universe has been created and is being run by the thermonuclear reactions of hydrogen that is the most abundant element in the Universe. So any alternative source of energy is uneconomic by definition from the stand point of EROEI now. Humanity has learned how to create a massive amount of nuclear energy through splitting atom, but has not yet learned to manipulate the energy that it holds. If you compare the amount of electric energy produced by nuclear electric power stations and the potential energy contained in just one atom, leave alone the huge amounts of waste produced by the same stations, you inevitably come to the conclusion that nuclear power stations must be disregarded at all as an economic way to produce electricity. At the same time when we learn how to manipulate the energy of the thermonuclear reaction we will be able to economically produce all kinds of artificial liquid fuels with a high component of hydrogen in them – the energy of an artificially produced thermonuclear reaction is so great that we would not care how much of it is used for the conversion of any hydrocarbons into a usable liquid fuel. Ther is no other way out.
In my mind it would be naive to think that only few of us can put together those very known facts and come up with a proper conclusion. Some people think just in the same way but do everything possible to prevent an open scientific discussion on the subject. Why? The answer is money and the definition ( or to be 100% frank the lack of it) of capital. Albert Einstein tried hard to understand political economy but failed for a good reason – he lived in the era that resulted in the consumerism theory of John M. Keynes. The founder of the political economy Adam Smith was absolutely right for the agricultural era he lived in by saying that "capital is land and labor". Agriculturally developed land was the main source of energy that was obtained mainly with hands and horse power. He contemplated that land was the real capital but since land is illiquid market wise ( you cannot exchange a square foot of land for a hat) the capital is measured by labor, or, in other words, money as a universal market liquid measurement of all kinds of labor with hands or head. So money is the measurement of labor and capital is the major source of energy. Until oil became the main source of energy in the 20th century 95% (!) of the Earth population had been engaged in agriculture. Unlike land oil is 100% liquid physically and market wise. Could it have become the standard for capital? Little has been left or published from the written legacy of John D. Rockerfeller. Some sources claim that he wanted to call his company "Oil Standard" but was forced to change it for "Standard Oil" which in my mind makes no sense. The world would have been different by now if oil had become the standard of capital in the early 20th century. That was unaffordable for governments and bankers. That is why the Federal Reserve System was secretly created in the free and oil rich nation that wanted it least of all without knowledge of the American people or its proper approval on the Jekyll Island. Money with no commonly accepted connection with real capital (oil reserves as of today) turned into just a mechanism of manipulation of the behavior of the people. Consumerism stands ideologically not very far from Marxism. Both are based on the assumption that all natural resources (including the most important ones -those of energy) are abundant and unlimited. It is always just not enough labor or money to develop them. As a result the Consumerism and the Communism theories lead to the same result in the end- an overall control of governments and banks ( in case of the first) over the markets and behavior of people- by force or by money that in fact has less and less value. The Arab Spring, turmoil in Western Europe caused by unemployment or a change of the presidents in the USA will change nothing, their emergence and policy are subjects to the objective laws of political economy that has been being disregarded for nearly hundred years. Just look at text books explaining the money supply. I may be willing to be considered a total fool but I will never understand how 100 bucks put on a bank account all of a sudden become 200 dollars. The fact is that the money supply goes in a completely different way. Just for an example. You fill your tank with X gallons of gasoline. You pay X amount of dollars for this amount. You drive X number of miles on the gasoline bought. You need another X amount of dollars to be paid for gasoline to drive another X amount of miles. So does everybody in the civilized world. The gasoline you spend for driving is gone – it is converted into the kinetic energy of the movement of your car. But the money remains in circulation – it is not gone and its amount is doomed to increase to let you buy more oil! If the reserves of oil are unlimited there is no worry, but they are. Today there is an unbelievably huge amount of money and little oil left. Soon we will be talking not about oil prices but about who gets the oil. The picture published with your article is correct- little oil means wars. Welcome to the ugly reality!


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What kind of economy do we want in this country? This abstract question has been put to the test in concrete ways, most recently with the protests against Walmart. (To catch yourself up, read the fantastic coverage from fellow Nation writer Josh Eidelson.) As the nation's—and the world's—largest private employer, it has a huge impact on the economy. But perhaps more importantly, low-wage, low-benefit, unstable service sector jobs like those in Wally World are our economic destiny. So more than just the job quality for striking Walmart workers is at stake; the quality of one of the fastest growing job categories is also being decided.
There's another area where this couldn't be truer: domestic work. The nannies, elder caregivers and housecleaners of today inhabit a rapidly growing occupation. As the baby boom generation ages and women continue to seek work outside the home, these jobs will become even more critical—and in demand. No wonder that the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that home care aide jobs will grow by 70 percent, far faster than most occupations, over the next decade. While harder to track, domestic workers' jobs are also on course for that rate of growth.
So what do these jobs look like? Unlike the conditions at Walmart, which while not the most transparent company is still under the watch of federal labor regulators, domestic work is performed in the home, exempt from many labor laws and mostly made invisible.
Until now. The National Domestic Workers Alliance released a groundbreaking survey this week of over 2,000 nannies, caregivers and housecleaners in fourteen cities across the country (and in nine languages no less) to find out what they were paid, what benefits they were given, how they were treated and what recourse they had to report the abuse that continually crops up against such a vulnerable workforce.
The results paint an incredibly ugly picture. Nearly three-quarters of the workforce is paid less than $13 an hour. The median hourly wage is $10 an hour, with live-in nannies making just $6.76 an hour at the median. (For those following along at home, that last wage comes to just about $14,000 a year.) It's no wonder, then, that they report enormous struggles to make ends meet. Sixty percent of these workers spend more than half of their income on housing. One in five reported experiencing times in the previous month when there was no food to eat in their households because they didn't have the money to buy any. Nearly a quarter weren't able to put away any money for savings.
The lack of benefits is just as stark. Sixty-five percent don't have any health insurance, and a mere 4 percent—one out of every hundred workers—had insurance that was provided by their employers. Yet far from being the easy babysitting jobs Congress imagined these to be when they were excluded from labor laws in the 1930s, this is hard, physical work. Nearly 40 percent had suffered from work-related wrist, shoulder, elbow or hip pain in the last year. About a third of housecleaners had suffered from skin irritation, a third of nannies had gotten sick on the job and a third of caregivers had suffered a back injury. With no insurance, these injuries will either go untreated or mean astronomical medical bills.


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What does each name for this terrorist group mean, and why would a person use one over another?
4 Ways ISIS Grounds Its Actions in Religion — and Why That Matters
It's as inaccurate to think these attacks reveal true Islam as it is to think they had nothing to do with it.
Three Ways to Respond to the Paris Attacks
Let us remedy this cancer of extremism with love and tolerance for each other.
Why Every Muslim Should Join the Islamic Caliphate
The true Caliphate fulfills Prophet Muhammad's prophecy — and revives Islam.
Martyr or Terrorist? It Depends . . .
A look at the meaning of martyrdom and why one person's martyr can be another person's terrorist.
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Compare the actions of ISIS to the Qur'an and it is clear ISIS can't represent any form of Islam.
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How should Muslims respond to intolerant and ignorant journalists?
How the Prophet Muhammad Dealt with Insults
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THE AXIS OF EVIL: Hezbollah and the Palestinian Terror
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THE AXIS OF EVIL: Hezbollah and the Palestinian Terror, Shaul Shay, Transaction Publishers, Brunswick, NJ, 2004, 262 pages, $44.95.
Shaul Shay is a research fellow at the International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Centre and head of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) department of history. His previous books include Terror at the Command of the Imam, The Endless Jihad, and The Shahids. Shay's ostensible subjectivity towards Iranian-sponsored terror in the Levant notwithstanding, this book is of value to military readers for two reasons: it explains the genesis and evolution of Hezbollah from the 1979 Iranian revolution and the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini, and it explains how Hezbollah adapted its techniques-particularly with innovations in suicide bombings-to improve its effectiveness in striking Israeli and other targets in the Levant and around the globe. Any elucidation of Hezbollah is salient because, after 1996, the organization's bomb experts established a degree of cooperation with Al-Qaeda. This book is germane for one other compelling reason: insurgents in Iraq have been emulating and adopting tactics and techniques that the terrorists of Hezbollah perfected in Lebanon and elsewhere in the latter part of the 20th century.
Shay explores the religious underpinnings of the Iranian Revolution and the export of that revolution through the radical Shi'ite fundamentalist sponsorship of terrorist organizations in Lebanon and elsewhere. He describes the Shi'ite terror networks that operated and continue to operate around the world, and explains Hezbollah's modus operandi. …


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SOURCE: Infinite Z, Inc.
August 03, 2012 09:00 ET
Immersive 3D Holographic Experience Displayed for International Computer Graphics and Interactive Technology Community
Immersive 3D Holographic Experience Displayed for International Computer Graphics and Interactive Technology Community
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - Aug 3, 2012) - Infinite Z, Inc.®, a technology provider that enables virtual-holographic 3D imagery to bring designs to life, today announced it will be demonstrating its interactive digital platform, zSpace, during SIGGRAPH 2012. The conference, being held from August 5-9 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, brings together an international group of computer graphics and interactive technology professionals.
"We are excited to bring the virtual-holographic experience of zSpace to an event where some of the most prominent and innovative members of the computer graphics and interactive technology community gather," said Paul Kellenberger, CEO of Infinite Z. "With zSpace, we can change the way designers use and interact with computer designs, and what better place to do it than at a show like SIGGRAPH, where disruptive and new techniques are fostered and encouraged."
The computer graphics and interactive technology market sees continual advancements due to new technology and technique improvements that are introduced every day. From the mainstream adoption of 3D technology to innovative gaming platforms, computer graphics and interactive professionals have an incredible opportunity to lead the industry forward and create an unforgettable experience for end users.
zSpace will be on display at the Infinite Z booth, 235, and the following partner booth:
Dassault Systèmes / 3DVIA, Booth 951
3DVIA is a software brand of Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, providing business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. The demo being shown at SIGGRAPH showcases a conceptual experience of 3DVIA Composer content running on Infinite Z's zSpace. It enables attendees to participate in a highly vivid experience interacting with CAD models. Users can replay animations of procedures and even grab parts with the tracked stylus to better understand the working mechanisms of the model. It is based on the workflow between the commercially available 3DVIA Composer and 3DVIA Studio Pro products, as well as the standard Immersive Virtuality (iV) features of 3DVIA Studio Pro.
"Thanks to the power and simplicity of the Sensorial User in Interaction (SUI) approach, a stunning prototype, like the one we are demonstrating at SIGGRAPH, can be developed in a few days," said David Nahon, Immersive Virtuality (iV) Domain Leader - Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies and User Experience for Dassault Systèmes. "We are expecting users at SIGGRAPH to give 3DVIA and Infinite Z insights on the joint value of Composer on zSpace experience. We are convinced that such new experiences are tomorrow's standards."
About Infinite Z, Inc.
Infinite Z, Inc.® is a digital design technology provider that enables natural interaction with virtual-holographic 3D imagery to bring designs to life. The company's mission is to transform human interactions with today's computing environment into an incredibly lifelike, interactive and immersive experience. Its revolutionary platform, zSpace®, provides a highly realistic visualization experience that enables designers and engineers to directly interact with virtual holographic simulations as if they were real physical objects, which accelerates the design and development process and increases productivity. Infinite Z is a privately held, venture backed company located in Mountain View, CA, and has filed more than 30 patents for its innovative technologies. For additional information about zSpace, visit http://www.zspace.com/
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After a stellar IPO debut in 2013, ExOne (NASDAQ:XONE) is poised to have another big year in 2014. The coming year will position the industrial 3-D printing company to take on more customers, increase awareness of its binder jetting 3-D printing technology, and expand its addressable market.
In the year ahead, ExOne will be investing heavily in growing its service center footprint and getting ISO certification, which together should help it attract a larger customer base. The service center angle is particularly important because it allows customers to benefit from ExOne's 3-D printing technology without having to purchase its printers, some of which can cost over $1 million. In addition, service centers allow ExOne to demonstrate its technology as a proof of concept, increasing its awareness along the way.
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Three of Vancouver's most ambitious environmental strategies have been selected for profile in the Cities100 global publication:
Vancouver is a leader in confronting climate change
"Vancouver's climate leadership continues to be helpful to cities around the world, with three of our successful green strategies recognized as innovative models," says Mayor Gregor Robertson.
"The UN Climate Summit is providing important opportunities for cities to learn from each other's success at confronting climate change while continuing to grow our economy, and cities represented here in Paris are counting on similarly bold leadership from national governments to confront this urgent global challenge."
We have adopted a comprehensive suite of policies and actions as part of the Greenest City Action Plan, Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, and Neighbourhood Energy Strategy, all of which lay the foundation for extensive greenhouse gas emission reductions at a municipal level.
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Author has written 14 stories for Ranma, Harry Potter, Slayers, Yu Yu Hakusho, Utawarerumono, Cowboy Bebop, Sonic the Hedgehog, Crest of the Stars, Loom, DarkWing Duck, and Fullmetal Alchemist.
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Long time fanfic fan (been coming to FFnet since the late 90s), but slow writer. Really slow. If you know of a guy named Lunaludus Scribex (who bills himself as the God of Dead Fandoms), I'm his head priestess (aka, even slower than him).
I prefer to read fanfics rather than write them, but every so often, inspiration hits me right between the eyes and I can't ignore it.
At any rate, actually got around to writing some stuff, and thought people may like to read it. If you like, leave a review or favorite it (if you have the time). If not (and you have good, solid reasoning behind your opinion other than disliking a coupling or event), tell me why. I'm always trying to improve.
Also have a DA account, in addition to the LJ one. Same name (killpurakat) on everything, if you want to check it out.
Small edit: For those who are following my stories (or who want sequels), you'll probably get your wish. Just not soon. Real life is a poor excuse, but there it is. I can only write in my spare time, and I am lacking in that.
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