Salutations to all,
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." - Prof. Al Bartlett
From http://www.albartlett.org/
Albert A. Bartlett is Professor Emeritus in Nuclear Physics at Colorado University at Boulder. He has been a member of the faculty of the University of Colorado since 1950. He was President of the American Association of Physics Teachers in 1978 and in 1981 he received their Robert A. Millikan Award for his outstanding scholarly contributions to physics education.
Dr. Bartlett has given his celebrated lecture, Arithmetic, Population and Energy over 1,600 times.
In about a 7 years period, (in times of war)to a 12 years period, we consume more than any previous quatity of oil ever produce.
Altough we consume 30 times more than emerging countries, the time of cheap energy is over as you will take a look at the arithmetic.
There are some Professors who have deeply influenced their students, Professor Bartlett is one of those.
Here is his course, which he made more than 1600 times, therefore, concise, dense, popular, convivial, easely understandable and right on target.
The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)
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We need to discover as much oil well than we have now if we want to keep Growth.
All these Vultures going around oil field or oil rings in their avidity urge to get more oil resources.
It was written by simple arithmetic.
Now we do have new perspectives on the horizon, a single block of energy providing almost indefinitively clean energy without the transport lines grid, without the centralised production and distribution of energy.
I wonder at what pace this new technology (althought discovered by Nicolas Tesla in the 30's, the inventor of alternative current and the Tesla Coil among other things), at what pace will it be allowed to democratised itself.
cf to http://www.engadget.com/...
We must cease this race and use the urge no to drill but to produce alternative energies as much decentralised as possible, freeing thus people dependancy on big corps for their energy.
But mostly we now have to implement measures, habits, choices than require less energy.
Undeniable and arithmetically irrefutable.