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fooschnikens (August 28, 2008 at 3:53 am)
ATTENTION: Apparently chevron oil (corrupt American oil company) bought the rights to NiMH battery technology so they could prevent auto manufacturers from using it to build more efficient hybrid vehicles and force us to keep buying gasoline. The name of the company that produced the NiMH batteries used to be Ovionic Battery Systems, but Chevron and Texaco bought the company and changed the name to Cobasys and made it impossible for auto manufacturers to buy the batteries. Search it for yourself
peakmoment (August 25, 2008 at 6:24 am)
Hi technoskeptic: if peak oil scares you, it means you understand its implications, and that's a huge step ahead of most people, I think. I think your diagnosis of our ecological problem is right on. Nature bats last, as they say. If humans don't come into balance with nature (sustainable) voluntarily, she'll force us to. I think we see that already happening...
technoskeptic1 (August 25, 2008 at 4:38 am)
I really enjoy your videos, Peak Moment! I have only recently become aware of the peak oil problem, and it's scared me quite thoroughly. I actually think many of our ecological problems are an outgrowth of our belief that the laws of nature don't apply to us. I hope we make it through this OK.
Peace!
peakmoment (August 21, 2008 at 6:44 am)
You got it! Peak oil, peak resources, yes. And also that peak moment when we "get" the bigger picture beyond our small-self, day-to-day concerns. That we're part of something bigger. What an incredible time to be alive: we were born for these times, and there's a lot to be and do. Thanks for watching and supporting and doing all you do.
morbessa (August 20, 2008 at 10:44 am)
Hello Peakmoment. I enjoy your videos - keep 'em coming. I also like the name. 'Peak Moment' It's kind of a double meaning. It refers to peak oil of course, but it also conjures up the feeling of that momen when one experiences clarity. Kind of a peak experience a la Abraham Maslow. Very cool.
DavyXYZb (August 19, 2008 at 6:29 am)
Well Ray Kurzweil reckons that nanotechnology will take care of everything. These peak oil doomsayers are just out to sell books and make money through other means. And no a lot of the debate does not come down to mere survival
DavyXYZb (August 19, 2008 at 6:29 am)
- but does in fact come down to preference. For instance take Jim Kunstler- the whole debate for this man is simply about aesthetics- both in urban and rural areas, peak oil theorists like this seem to enjoy the idea of a return to dense packed towns and small scale peasant farming. I think it could be that Americans
DavyXYZb (August 19, 2008 at 6:28 am)
are naive, and money has gotten to their heads- they actually believe that a life after "peak oil" would be some pre-20th century utopia. This is nonsense because my grandparents and greatparents had to dig up entire fields by hand- just like our ancestors did in the 19th century and prior to that- and my grandmother had to walk 5 bloody miles to school, and my grand-dad cycle 6 miles to work in the old mill. Is this something that you as an American (the most pampered race in human history)
DavyXYZb (August 19, 2008 at 6:27 am)
would actually look forward to? And i'm not attacking anybodys preferences for food types, but I think the whole theory that organic food is healthy and better compared to industrial farmed food needs to be challenged because food today is in fact healthier than ever- comparing to some of the crap that my grandparents had to eat (organic- not that they thought of it as such). And don't think that localisation is always good- if anything parochialism and small town gombeenism will flourish.
peakmoment (August 19, 2008 at 6:08 am)
Technology is not the same as energy. Nanotechnologies still require energy input. Nothing we've developed yet has as much energy density as well as portability of oil.
In the documentary "The Power of Community" which Megan talked about, we see how Cubans survived the sudden withdrawal of oil from their country. It was survival not necessarily preference. |
