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- Peak oil and the end of economic growth?
- Peak oil and the end of economic growth?Oh, brotherJust last week I was reading about a new natural gas discovery in the US that was equivalent to some astounding number of barrels. The report mentioned the single field being able to handle US natural gas needs for hundreds of...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Peak Oil, Kinda
- Discussion threads 2009-05-04
- Peak oil, peak coal and a peek at the future
- Peak oil, peak coal and a peek at the futureDon't think soPeak oil? give me a break. Are you talking about liquid oil? Then maybe. But how about tar sands, or oil shale? Are you saying we can't or won't get oil from those enormous...
- Tags: coal, Peak Oil
- Discussion threads 2009-03-07
- Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past
- Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the pastResponseJust a few thoughts:No, we cannot drill our way out of the current situation, but we can drill to give us the time to make a switch to other energy sources. Besides, we will still need...
- Tags: electrical need, Peak Oil
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
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- What do Bill Gates and other billionaires see as the world's #1 problem?
- It's not peak oil and it's not war. But it is a greentech issue. It's population growth. But without unbridled population growth it's very hard to maintain economic growth. This issue strikes at the very heart of 21st Century business and politics. That's why we...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Population Growth, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Let's blame addictive oil
- More Politics? REALLY ZDNET???What's with all the one sided politics on this TECH blog? I would not be worried about oilWe've got oil in Alaska for the next 100 years.By then people will figure out something better.100 years ago there ware almost no automobiles and everything run mostly on...
- Tags: oil
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Let's blame addictive oil
- The blame game is getting grimmer as the global warming warnings get more strident. Now comes a book pointing to petroleum as "the devil's excrement." Damn, wish I thought of that epithet. This book is Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil. Says Knopf's marketing text,...
- Tags: Oil, Iran, Consumption, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Smart grid report from Lexington Institute explores benefits, pitfalls
- Smart grid, demand response and smart appliancesWhen I need to explain the smart grid in a sentence, I simply describe it as the coupling of a digital network on top of our existing grid structure. What?s the big deal with doing that? Digital information on the grid gives all sorts...
- Tags: grid, demand response, Smart Grid, benefit
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- IBM: give us one great idea
- IBM is partnering with some other folks to find the best new idea for improving the world's rail transit. The congestion problem is only getting worse as urban populations grow: In 1950 there were 8 global mega-cities those with populations of five million or more. In 2001, that...
- Tags: Congestion, IBM Corp., Congestion Problem, Transportation, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- "Cooling trend" and global warming
- I found an interesting fact-based argument on the "cooling trend" that is frequently used to "refute" global warming warnings. Here's the link, complete with charts. His basic argument: using the 1998 peak makes recent years look cooler, but take a loooooonger look and the curve is distinctly toward...
- Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- General Electric appliances strive for 'net-zero energy homes'
- General Electric appliances strive for 'net-zero energy homes'average home-owners are screwedMost cannot drop $30K on solar panels. The rich people buy panels, drop consumption from the power grid. Electric company compensates buy raising rates to the remaining (non-rich) customers. So the rich get richer and the poor learn to read...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Solar Heating, Earthships, net-zero energy home, energy home, General Electric Co., winter
- Discussion threads 2009-07-15
- Roping in Round-up?
- Battle of titans: Monsanto v. EPA. Round 1 on Round-up. The EPA says the eight-year-old Monsanto mine in southern Idaho is producing illegal pollution, and has since it began operation. Of course, during the Bush Administration there was slim chance that any anti-pollution laws would be enforced...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Round-up, Monsanto, Storage, Hardware, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Oil shortages are over, we're gonna squeeze it from diatoms
- Researchers say there's enough oil made by tiny diatoms to power the planet. Or at least reduce worries about "peak oil." We simply have to harvest it, "milk" it they say. Diatoms are single-cell algae that naturally produce oil as part of their living activities. Diatoms, these...
- Tags: Diatoms, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Is there a green fossil fuel?
- The natural gas interests are interested in the being the first choice fuel in the American future. A report just issued from the Potential Gas Committee sure makes natural gas look like the best potential fuel for generating electricity in coming decades. The U.S. is actually adding to...
- Tags: Coal, Natural Gas, Fossil Fuel, Natural Gas Interest, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Supermicro launches Nvidia Tesla fueled server
- Supermicro and Nvidia took the wraps off a class of server that's turbo charged by graphics processors. At the Computex trade show in Taiwan, Supermicro is demonstrating a server that features Nvidia's Tesla GPUs with multi-core processors in a single 1U rack server. Supermicro...
- Tags: Teraflop, Quad-core, NVidia Corp., CPU, GPU, Supermicro, Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-31
- Greenpeace Cool IT: But does GP miss the point?
- Greenpeace Cool IT: But does GP miss the point?Re: But does GP miss the point?I for one believe we have a responsibility to be 'good stewards' of the planet, but the amount of suspect science and unbridled emotionalism that has surfaced regarding the supposed 'green house' effect tells me that...
- Tags: Greenpeace, Greenpeace Cool-IT
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- Is green living just for the rich?
- Is green living just for the rich?Al Gore & Obama living richYes, I would agree Al Gore is getting rich off carbon bogus lies.RE: Is green living just for the rich?I don't buy into the "green movement", at least not in its entirety. Sure, I'll use CFLs, but that's...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Arrhenius, CFL, cheese
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- When Americans were well-trained
- When Americans were well-trainedExpress RailI like the idea! There is nothing express or high speed about traveling by train today in America. In fact from Michigan where i live I can plan on up to 20 hours to the East with long layovers. I see no reason...
- Tags: NYC, Express Rail
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- Peak oil and the end of economic growth?
- "American Scientist" has a provocative article on peak oil and what that means for the chimera of unending economic growth. The authors remind us that population growth and increased food production have both literally been fuelled by ever more energy use, much of it wood or fossil fuel. ...
- Tags: Growth, Petroleum, Roi/Tco, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- H2O + CO2 = CH4, thanks to Archaeans
- Researchers at Penn State have found a friendly microbe that'll take our excess CO2, add some water, a charge of electricity, and return us methane. The original purpose of the portable electrolysis cell research: producing H2. But if you get lemons, make.... It's long been...
- Tags: Electricity, Carbon Dioxide, Archaea, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- News to know: Wolfram Alpha; iPhone developers; Windows 7; Cyberwar
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Wolfram Alpha: 'A new paradigm for using computers and the web' Nova Spivak: Wolfram Alpha is Coming â€" and It Could be as...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
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