Monday, September 26, 2011
harvest a few long-pig and see if that deters the crop-theft problem...,
By CNu at September 26, 2011 3 comments
beans, bullets, band-aids, and bibles...,
Video - Strange bird scrying portents in Led Zep titles and lyrics.
By CNu at September 26, 2011 3 comments
Labels: self-sufficiency , The Hardline
Sunday, September 25, 2011
the profit-seeking parasites must always fail you...,
those two tapeworms on top gotta go, gotta go, gotta go...., |
By CNu at September 25, 2011 0 comments
Labels: Peak Capitalism
obsession with profit and control is the source of the error...,
By CNu at September 25, 2011 1 comments
Labels: agenda , Ass Clownery , elite , establishment
urbanized
Video - Urbanized - A documentary about the design of cities
By CNu at September 25, 2011 0 comments
Labels: industrial ecosystems , Livestock Management
does being on "the pipe" enhance cognition?
Video - wanker whining about call of duty hacks
Video - a shooter where you can flip gravity
By CNu at September 25, 2011 0 comments
Labels: American Original , count zero , neuromancy
Saturday, September 24, 2011
25 signs of a horrific global water crisis...,
Video - the coming global water crisis
By CNu at September 24, 2011 7 comments
Labels: Irreplaceable Natural Material Resources , resource war
how energy drains water supplies
By CNu at September 24, 2011 2 comments
big pie in the big sky by-and-by...,
- 3.8 million wind turbines, 5 megawatts each, supplying 50 percent of the projected total global power demand
- 49 000 solar thermal power plants, 300 MW each, supplying 20 percent
- 40 000 solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants supplying 14 percent
- 1.7 billion rooftop PV systems, 3 kilowatts each, supplying 6 percent
- 5350 geothermal power plants, 100 MW each, supplying 4 percent
- 900 hydroelectric power plants, 1300 MW each, of which 70 percent are already in place, supplying 4 percent
- 720 000 ocean-wave devices, 0.75 MW each, supplying 1 percent
- 490 000 tidal turbines, 1 MW each, supplying 1 percent.
By CNu at September 24, 2011 6 comments
Labels: not gonna happen...
Friday, September 23, 2011
much too expensive, but at least a token step in the right direction...,
Video - Energy efficient home-building decathalon
By CNu at September 23, 2011 8 comments
Labels: open source culture , Possibilities
WW-III will have its own little gratifications...,
By CNu at September 23, 2011 0 comments
Labels: Farmer Brown , food supply , Livestock Management
predictable and richly deserved...,
By CNu at September 23, 2011 5 comments
Labels: Livestock Management , tricknology
8 current livestock management technologies
By CNu at September 23, 2011 0 comments
Labels: count zero , neuromancy
can anyone help me understand this in a non-conspiratorial light?
Video - 80's commercial for Primatene Mist
- See a health care professional soon to get another medicine. Primatene Mist may be harder to find on store shelves even before Dec. 31, 2011.
- Ask your health care professional to show you how to use your new inhaler or other medicine to make sure you are using it correctly and getting the right dose.
- Follow the directions for using and cleaning your new inhaler or other medicine to make sure you get relief of your asthma symptoms.
- If you haven’t used up your Primatene Mist by Dec. 31, it’s safe to continue using it as long as it hasn’t expired. Check the expiration date, which can be found on the product and its packaging.
By CNu at September 23, 2011 6 comments
Labels: Kwestin
Thursday, September 22, 2011
money/status IS happiness with these humans...,
Video - 60% of the time, it works every time...,
By CNu at September 22, 2011 0 comments
Labels: American Original , killer-ape
the invisible hand of god...,
By CNu at September 22, 2011 0 comments
Labels: magical thinking
nytimes a vector for yergin denialism too...,
By CNu at September 22, 2011 0 comments
Labels: agenda , elite , establishment , propaganda
africom embraces automated remote killing in a big way...,
By CNu at September 22, 2011 0 comments
Labels: Obamamandian Imperative , unspeakable
our smartphones ourselves
By CNu at September 22, 2011 0 comments
Labels: cognitive infiltration , What Now?
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
what big don and his peeps are worried about....,
The problem with public housing is that the residents are not the owners.
The people that live in the house did not earn the house, but were loaned the property from the true owners, the taxpayers.
Because of this, the residents do not have the "pride of ownership" that comes with the hard work necessary.
In fact, the opposite happens and the residents resent their benefactors because the very house is a constant reminder that they themselves did not earn the right to live in the house.
They do not appreciate the value of the property and see no need to maintain or respect it in any way.
The result is the same whether you are talking about a studio apartment or a magnificent mansion full of priceless antiques.
If the people who live there do not feel they earned the privilege, they will make this known through their actions.
What do all these pics have in common?
The Resolute Desk was built from the timbers of the HMS Resolute and was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes.
It is considered a national treasure and icon of the presidency.
The White House belongs to the People of America and should be more revered than to use anything and everything for a foot rest! What all these shots have in common is that they continue to prove that this man has no class!
SO HERE'S A MESSAGE FROM THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA :
Mr. Obama, you are not in a hut in Kenya or Indonesia, or public housing in Chicago.
With all due respect, get your ------- feet off our desk!
By CNu at September 21, 2011 13 comments
Labels: big don special
WSJ embraced peak-oil denialism...,
By CNu at September 21, 2011 1 comments
Labels: corporatism , reality casualties
inside the trillion dollar underground economy
One of my favorite spots in the whole world!!! |
“This underground economy goes beyond the homeless collecting aluminum cans or clogging day labor halls. It includes the working poor getting cash for all forms of recycling: giving plasma, selling homemade tamales outside shopping plazas, holding yard sales, doing under-the-table work for friends and family, selling stuff at pawnshops, CD, book and used clothing stores, and even getting tips from restaurants and bars--to name a few.”
By CNu at September 21, 2011 0 comments
Labels: open source culture
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
yergin's WSJ peak-oil propaganda rebutted...,
Video - Pootie Tang chastisement
The EIA shows that global annual crude + condensate production (C+C) has been between 73 and 74 mbpd (million barrels per day) since 2005, except for 2009, and BP shows that global annual total petroleum liquids production has been between 81 and 82 mbpd since 2005, except for 2009. In both cases, this was in marked contrast to the rapid increase in production that we saw from 2002 to 2005. Some people might call this "Peak Oil,” and we appear to have hit the plateau in 2005, not some time around mid-century.
Only if we include biofuels have seen a material increase in global total liquids production.
In the US, there are some good stories about rising Mid-continent production, and US (C+C) production has rebounded from the hurricane related decline that started in 2005, but 2010 production was only very slightly above the pre-hurricane level that we saw in 2004, and monthly US production has been between 5.4 and 5.6 mbpd since the fourth quarter of 2009, versus the 1970 peak of 9.6 mbpd. Incidentally, US net oil imports of crude oil plus products have fallen since 2005, primarily as a result of a large reduction in demand, because of rising oil prices (which Mr. Yergin predicted would not happen), but EIA data show that the US is still reliant on crude oil imports for two out of every three barrels of oil that we process in US refineries.
However, the real story is Global Net Oil Exports (GNE), which have shown a measurable multimillion barrel per day decline since 2005, and which are measured in terms of total petroleum liquids, with 21 of the top 33 net oil exporters showing lower net oil exports in 2010, versus 2005. An additional metric is Available Net Exports (ANE), which we define as GNE less Chindia's (China + India’s) combined net oil imports. ANE have fallen at an average volumetric rate of about one mbpd per year from 2005 to 2010, from about 40 mbpd in 2005 to about 35 mbpd in 2010 (BP + Minor EIA data, total petroleum liquids).
At the current rate of increase in the ratio of Chindia's net imports to GNE, Chindia would consume 100% of GNE in about 20 years. Contrary to Mr. Yergin’s sunny pronouncements, what the data show is that developed countries like the US are being forced to take a declining share of a falling volume of GNE. In fact, our work suggests that the US is well on its way to “freedom” from its reliance on foreign sources of oil, just not in the way that most people hoped.
In a November, 2004 interview in Forbes, Mr. Yergin asserted that oil prices would be back to a long term price ceiling of $38 by late 2005--because of a steady increase in global crude oil production. It turned out that Mr. Yergin’s predicted price ceiling has so far been the price floor. The lowest monthly spot crude oil price that the EIA shows for post-November, 2004 is $39.
I suspect that just as Mr. Yergin was perfectly wrong about oil prices, he may be confidently calling for decades of rising production, just as we come off the current production plateau and just as an accelerating decline in Global Net Exports kicks in.
By CNu at September 20, 2011 0 comments
Labels: Hanson's Peak Capitalism , truth
nanoscience and nanotechnology
MIT | Nanotechnology’s impact will one day rival that of electricity, transistors, antibiotics, and the Internet — thanks in part to MIT research.
“There is increasing recognition that we can apply our knowledge of the very small to solve some of the world’s very big problems,” says Ian Waitz, Dean of MIT’s School of Engineering. “Very important engineering challenges and domains — such as energy, the environment, and health care — will benefit from nano-science and -technology.”
Nanotechnology is enabling MIT researchers to develop, for example, substantially more effective and inexpensive solar cells; greener, more sustainable materials for infrastructure; tiny biomedical sensors that can monitor health in real time; and electronic devices that could greatly increase computing power using minimal energy. And a great adventure is now under way at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT as the science of cancer is joined with the engineering of nanoparticles and new materials to help create new knowledge about cancer and new treatments.
Since it emerged as a field roughly 25 years ago, nanotechnology — which harnesses the remarkable properties of matter at the scale of billionths of a meter — has been heralded for its potential to revolutionize materials, manufacturing, energy, security, and health care. Nano-enhanced materials are already used in hundreds of products — sunscreen, sports equipment, and surface coatings for vehicles, among others. And semiconductor manufacturers have fabricated nanoscale components to push the boundaries of chip efficiency for over a decade.
But the truly transformative advances that nanotechnology promises — from large-scale storage and conversion of renewable energy, to staggeringly powerful quantum computers, to sophisticated biomedical implants that monitor and treat disease — are still years if not decades away.
Those types of advances require the ability to precisely assemble and manipulate matter at the atomic level — in other words, “from the bottom up. And that remains very difficult,” says Marc Kastner, Dean of MIT’s School of Science. To grasp the challenges posed by the nanoscale, consider that the comparative size of a nanometer to a meter is the same as that of a marble to the size of Earth. The researchers profiled in this issue are leading science’s effort to overcome those challenges.
“To do anything outstanding in this field, you need people who really understand chemistry, physics, and engineering,” says Kastner. “There are very few institutions in the world that have the breadth and depth of expertise that MIT has in these areas.”
Kastner and Waitz say that nanotechnology will be key to a new era in manufacturing that could fuel a 21st-century industrial revolution. With MIT President Susan Hockfield, whom the Obama administration recently appointed co-chair of its Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, they are positioning MIT to lead this new era.
Waitz says he is awed by the pace of nanotechnological innovation at MIT. “I find it amazing that we’re engineering things at that scale, and then using them to solve very challenging problems. I’m excited about the prospects for the ‘world of the small.’”
By CNu at September 20, 2011 0 comments
Labels: nano
AIPAC Powered By Weak, Shameful, American Ejaculations
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