CUBA

This video=WOW:

Meat Loaf

http://jerseymike.org/2008/10/percentage-of-things-meat-loaf-would-do-for-love-and-other-graphs-to-make-you-chuckle/

MORE DOOM

ENERGY PEAK

Here's a straightforward primer.

http://www.energybulletin.net/primer


Peak enters the mainstream

2 years ago, French government predicting peak by 2012 (many say it is already beginning to peak):
BBC NEWS | Business | 'Peak oil' enters mainstream debate
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4077802.stm

The Long Emergency - by James Howard Kunstler
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/4856

And it ain't just the newspapers / magazines and the internet:
http://www.grinningplanet.com/environmental-books/peak-oil-books.htm
http://www.amazon.com/PEAK-OIL-BOOKS/lm/26CCG716IZ4VC


If a picture tells a thousand words

Outside the middle-east, oil production is already in decline:


Oil / population comparisons:



This next one's a little tricky, but shows the energy 'per capita' (person) mapped over time. Note the peak in the US. happened in 1970... :



Slightly clearer version of the above for the global picture:




I'm sure you saw this one back in the 70's! .. from ecological science, the population 'overshoot':



Well, you gotta laugh - Human energy production / population over a longer stretch of time:




For the source of the above graph, see the Olduvai Theory, as proposed by Richard C. Duncan:

From "The Social Contract" [2005-2006 Winter] - provides information on the background to the precursors of theory from 19th / 20th Century scientists:
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/duncan/OlduvaiTheorySocialContract.pdf

A more recent take on it with the latest data confirming the trend:
www.warsocialism.com/duncan_tscq_07.pdf

Overview of the Olduvai theory, with steps humanity must take to avoid descent - What are the odds people and politicians will suss this one out in time? Don't rate them very highly myself. Iraq war, anyone?
http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/3565


Nice! Someone prove this stuff wrong for me, quick!

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Woah

from here: http://www.drmillslmu.com/peakoil.htm

But what about other sources of renewable energy?

In one year the entire world produces about 1 cubic mile of oil (2006 data). It would
take 50 years of energy production by each alternative energy source below to
accumulate the equivalent energy in 1 cubic mile of oil that the world uses now in one year.

Source: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3084 and http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2320

Energy equivalents of 1 cubic mile of oil (CMO).

To produce the equivalent amount of of the energy provided by oil in one year would take:

200 Three Gorges Dams
2,600 Nuclear Power Plants
5,200 Coal Fired Plants (not good for global warming...)
1,642,500 Wind Turbines
4,562,500,000 Solar Panel

Also see: can renewable energy make a dent in fossil fuels?

http://www.drmillslmu.com/peakoi23.jpg

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PEAK OIL

Sorry to piss on your chips but ... read this.

Or maybe not - after all, someone might invent a miracle power source tomorrow. Go for a drive, go shopping, take a nap, enjoy life!

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

MEH

"The global financial crisis will see the US falter in the same way the Soviet Union did when the Berlin Wall came down."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/28/usforeignpolicy.useconomicgrowth

Kelly Clarkson goes death metal:

Kelly who?

This rules anyway:

Donovan

OK I don't know much about him, but after listening to most of 'Troubadour' I just wanna say:

DONOVAN > Devendra Banhart

Massively, totally owns him, no competition, makes him look like a poser tribute artist.  Not that I liked him anyway.

Captain Beefheart's Ten Commandments For Guitarists

Awesome...


1. LISTEN TO THE BIRDS That's where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren't going anywhere.
2. YOUR GUITAR IS NOT REALLY A GUITAR Your guitar is a divining rod. Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If you're good, you'll land a big one.
3. PRACTICE IN FRONT OF A BUSH Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush doesn't shake, eat another piece of bread.
4. WALK WITH THE DEVIL Old delta blues players referred to amplifiers as the "devil box." And they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employer in terms of who you're bringing over from the other side. Electricity attracts demons and devils. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Casper. A mandolin attracts Wendy. But an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub.
5. IF YOU'RE GUILTY OF THINKING, YOU'RE OUT If your brain is part of the process, you're missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing.
6. NEVER POINT YOUR GUITAR AT ANYONE Your instrument has more power than lightning. Just hit a big chord, then run outside to hear it. But make sure you are not standing in an open field.
7. ALWAYS CARRY YOUR CHURCH KEY You must carry your key and use it when called upon. That's your part of the bargain. Like One String Sam. He was a Detroit street musician in the fifties who played a homemade instrument. His song "I Need A Hundred Dollars" is warm pie. Another church key holder is Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf's guitar player. He just stands there like the Statue of Liberty making you want to look up her dress to see how he's doing it.
8. DON'T WIPE THE SWEAT OFF YOUR INSTRUMENT You need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink onto your music.
9. KEEP YOUR GUITAR IN A DARK PLACE When you're not playing your guitar, cover it and keep it in a dark place. If you don't play your guitar for more than a day, be sure to put a saucer of water in with it.
10. YOU GOTTA HAVE A HOOD FOR YOUR ENGINE Wear a hat when you play and keep that hat on. A hat is a pressure cooker. If you have a roof on your house the hot air can't escape. Even a lima bean has to have a wet paper towel around it to make it grow.

Thanks to / stolen from:
http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2007/06/practice-in-front-of-bush-captain.html

OMG

"The most numerous cells in our body are microbial—they outnumber our cells 10 to 1."  So what the hell does that make us?  'humacteria'?  lol

"It appears that the skin, the largest organ in our body, is a kind of zoo and some of the inhabitants are quite novel, according to a new study. Researchers found evidence for 182 species of bacteria in skin samples. Eight percent were unknown species that had never before been described."

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/nyum-hsh013107.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flora

Hello The Mushroom!!

Thanks for that one, Jussi!

Random scuzz

I gotta buy me some of that.

Good to know I can now buy 'lamer'
in a bottle too.

Dood Pati - my kind of drink.

My kind of party.

My actual weight after drinking it at that party and washing in 'lamer.'

Then I had to play bass for some students at the college I work at and this was the view from the stage.

Zoo's new job.

Emirates FC.

My new home round the corner.

Finsbury Park.

Wales

Country studios rule.

You gotta love Newport or Bridgend or whatever.

Gum Takes Tooth setlist yeah!

Real Feal setlist alright!

My dad's new job.