This past weekend I had the great good fortune to attend a three day energy conference attended by some of the world’s greatest energy experts. Thanks to the good graces of the Foundation for the Future I was invited to attend the conference as an observer. The Foundation invited 15 of the foremost physicists and […]
Last week it was announced that Life magazine would cease publication, again. This is the third death of the magazine since it was founded in 1936. Life was a weekly from 1936 to 1972, when it first stopped publication. It was revived as a monthly in 1978 but then shut down again in 2000. It […]
There have been many posts on the subject of disintermediation in this blog. For those new to evolution shift, please check out this post and this post. I firmly believe that we are living in one of those short periods of time when the world gets rearranged in large part due to historically powerful agents […]
In the prior post I gave a general definition and overview of peak oil for those that have yet to track this development. Until recently, the brightest minds unencumbered by vested oil interests have strongly suggested, and with good documentation, that the world could well run out of extractable petroleum sometime around the mid twenty-first […]
Peak oil is loosely defined at the point in time when half of all the oil reserves in the earth have been extracted and burned. This means that we are half way through the oil consumption cycle and move into extracting the remaining 50%. Some of the most respected experts and oil geologists have long […]
In my last post I wrote about GM and the presentation it made to some of us in the media about the new battery technology they are developing along with several other companies. At the end of that post I highlighted the two distinct lines of challenging questions that have come up in response. I […]
One of the most important research and development efforts in the world today is the quest for the perfect battery to power electric cars. We all know that there is global warming, air pollution, and an increasing dependence on imported oil. We know that petroleum is a finite resource that will be depleted in this […]
One of the very first posts I made in this blog over a year ago was “Praise the Lord, not Petroleumâ€. It discussed the very public and high profile actions a significant number of Evangelical Christian organizations were taking to fight global warming. Their underlying argument is simple: if the Earth, and all living things […]
We are now into the global stage of humanity’s evolution. When viewed over the span of the past 10,000 years it is clear that we have moved from tribe to village to city, to state, to country to planet. In speeches I give around the country I discuss this “Flow to Global†as one of […]
There was an article the other day in the paper with the headline “Phoenix Plans 24-Lane Highwayâ€. The article described the plan to widen a two mile stretch of Interstate 10 in Phoenix to 24 lanes. In each direction there would be six general purpose lanes, two high-occupancy lanes and then four lanes for local […]