It's true, the signs are all over the news without ever saying the peak oil, looks like economic dominos are falling and structural foundations are cracking....
... The blame game is next. Probably the wars so many of us talk about. Once countries start hoarding resources, the killer ape desperation part of us comes to...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826540.100-the-chips-will-go-down.html The chips will go down * 30 April 2008 * From New Scientist * Alice Friedemann,...
Alice, Thanks for all of your writings and I appreciate everything you write . . . but . . . from a layman's point of view most computer chips don't fail or...
SF is considering a carbon tax, but it would exempt transport carbon. Too easy to buy out of town. Jeanne ... -- Jeanne Rosenmeier 415 751-0901...
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Given that every $10 increase in a barrel of oil takes $73 billion out of the economy, it's hard to see how it could be justified. The price of oil has already...
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Jeannie: I hope they end up including fuel for cars, etc. The Bay Area counties should form an agreement on this, so it can't be escaped easily. After all,...
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Dear Arlen, Well, if I were only speaking from personal experience alone, between my husband and I we've had three computers that winked out in 4 months, 1...
Hi, Alice. I used to work a lot with computers (still do, as it happens), so I'm going to venture in here. It's a stretch to say that a computer failure has...
Come visit me at the Maker Faire! I've set up Midway booth #914 to talk about Sustainability and Community: Cohousing, Coworking, and EcoVillages. I've set up...
[perhaps this 'cover-up' is related to Area 51? Nice to know that we don't have a monopoly on the conspiracy theorists. --R] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30,...
Hi, Alice. Thanks for the additional info. I think we are looking at different parts of the elephant and aren't really saying anything substantively different....
There won't be zero energy. Maybe it would be good to have battery-driven stuff to get flexibility. Jeanne ... -- Jeanne Rosenmeier 415 751-0901...
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Andre wrote: However, I was left with the sense that the microprocessors themselves were failing in four years when it sounds like, given the chance, you would...
Hi, Alice. I apologize. I'm not expressing myself clearly. Your point is very well taken. A technological society has a lot at stake, more than most people...
... Not immediately, but as it gets more and more precious, face it, the internet is just not going be here, their usefulness will be returned to 1990...
... But really, we should have done that already. We're no better than those other cultures that went before us, and probably little different in many more...
... You're welcome. I am late reading news these days too. But I saw a horse race yesterday, speaking of people who assume BAU model.... And I don't really...
I hang out on a list that's full of journalists, but the slightly oddly bent variety. Slightly, but not enough most of the time. This little ditty caught my...
... IMHO, laptops will hold more value when electric costs shoot through the roof. Because of the need to keep batteries going longer and heat dissipation...
... I think this is all part of "I'm not about to give anything up" meme we all share to some extent, which ultimately is the attitude that exacerbates where...
Hi, Dennis. 'I think this is all part of "I'm not about to give anything up" meme we all share to some extent, which ultimately is the attitude that ...
Well over time, of course these will become pretty much irrelevant but that being said, over time the physical universe will collapse as well, it's a time and...
Is that a joke? Or perhaps the success of terrorism "marketing" by British media has advanced to the stage that they feel the public will be enticed by this...