I am reading a new book. “The End of Oil” by Paul Roberts. So far it is a great book about the energy economy and the implications it has on the environment. Some of the facts that are presented in it are quite scary. When I read that by 2035 the oil demand will be 140 million barrels a day, which means that oil companies and oil sates will need to discover, produce, refine, and bring to market 140 million new barrels of oil every twenty-four hours, day after day, year after year, without fail my jaw dropped. Considering these numbers were based on current growth rates for the energy market (which means they are very conservative) we could have some huge problems real quickly.
I came into possession of a Wii Fit early this week. It is surprisingly cool. I set up a goal to gain 10lbs in a month. We shall see.
The presidential debates tonight got me surfing….surfing about renewable energy resources. In the process I stumbled upon this company called 3TIER. They are a company that is trying to understand and predict weather and climate changes and its impacts on renewable energy generation. Very cool stuff.
I think before any large scale efforts are done in terms of renewable energy resources or alternate energy here in the US we need to actually get some plans together to determine what can really help mitigate both our dependency on foreign oil and the destruction to the environment. Things like where wind and solar farms should be placed need to be determined in a scientific manner. Also the effects of creating these large scale farms need to be looked at. I can almost guarantee a large wind farm will effect climate changes in neighboring states. Anyway…the maps 3TIER has created appear to be very useful. But I still think more detailed analysis should be done to find relations with the data that this presents with other climatology and energy research to make better decisions for the future in terms of energy management.
