Christmas in Capital Gains

Have a wonderful Christmas full of good cheer and merriment.

... and may charity reap the gain most capital to your heart...

Sincerely,
Tim

clean air is dependent on the value you expect to get so you'll part with your money

The worldwide conservation ethic can only be had through the market
penetration of products that promote value to consumers. In order that
the market be ready so that companies can profit by a situation in which
there is real or perceived consumer need for conservation energy pricing
must increase. Pricing will be influenced in one of two ways. Either a
real shortage of energy supply will exist resulting in price
fluctuations outside even the most tumultuous historical averages or
government will be forced to reduce subsidies to force pricing to scale
higher against a ready and "cheap" supply so that conservation becomes a
consumer and corporate target.

all candidates meeting in northumberland county on environment

 

meeting will question whether Canadian nuclear fuel export industry should thrive

the long long arm of the blog

One of my current favorite writers is Cory Doctorow, who, I suspect, is seeing someone quite famous from the television series "Enterprise". This would seem in keeping with Cory's geek roots and sci-fi sensibilities.

Cory, a self-professed "committed infovore" now calls London, England his home after having bounced around North America for a few years.

From his 12 year attempt to get published, and near-instant recognition as the winner Year 2000 John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, Cory has continued to forge his name on the bleeding edge of net-culture and technology. He is a savant with interesting ideas about the social justice implications of technology adoption, and though this is the way I would phrase his involvement from my perspective because I share many of his sentiments intimately, this may not be the way he bills himself.

Having invested himself in the Creative Commons licensing with the blessing of his publisher TOR, Cory has springboarded ahead as a writer, gaining popularity by making his work available online to new readers leveraging both his journalistic work on the popular blog Boing Boing he helped found (250,000 hits monthly), and his position as Outreach Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Cory is in huge demand internationally and has spoken widely on a variety of subjects relating to culture, technology, and, obviously, science fiction.

You will find Cory's name popping up at you in a lot of different places on the Internet. His relationship to blogging and blog technology and information is unparalleled.

Maintaining web logs or "Blogging" and the use of RSS feeds to syndicate the content contained in these sometimes intensely personal collections of expression has outstripped the expectations and longevity of the orginators of the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) developers along with many in the web development field.

Collaboration and learning are fast becoming a major part of the field where once proprietary or time intensive blog tools have moved into the realm of the affordable and easy-to-use. Expanded features have also changed blogs into mobile, versatile, accessible tools complete with access priviledge and ownership controls that enable users and managers to collect and secure data.

So, if you're sold on the blog phenomenon, know that it isn't new. It's simply going through a process of maturation that brings enterprise-grade toolsets down to the level of the individual. For a quick backgrounder on what a blog is the link below gives a great high-level overview and some easy to follow instructions for getting started.

Start Your Blog Learning Here

http://blog.blogware.com/help/

Photoblogging Turns Mobile Phone Into Instant Photo Album

http://www.photojunkie.ca/archives/2004/06/07/random_bytes.php
You're not going to find that this site specifically shows you how to create a blog photo album, but it gives you an idea of what can be done with photoblogging. The Blogware link above can show you where to find the tools to turn your blog into a one-stop family-album shop, with easy tools and instructions.



-- end of sales pitch --

Bravo goes on a 'Manhunt'

Hi,

Tim Pozza has sent you the following article from Digital Spy.

"Bravo goes on a 'Manhunt'"
US cable channel Bravo goes looking for America's "most gorgeous male model" in new show.

In addition, he/she has attached the following message:
I have put some serious thought into entering this beauty pageant, however, my therapist says I have to become a Swan before I will have the psychological will power to stand around looking great, what with the weight and all.

Spare tyre people are beginning to look a LOT more attractive to me. I can reflect on the obesity factor as a symptom of inexpensive mobility fuel and farm factory practice. But I doubt my vanity will ever turn me into a vegitarian.

If that is a mixed message, you can decide who and what you are without any of my help.

Ta,
tim



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industry in environment is information

Society of Environmental Journalists

Deadline for conference registration and fellowship applications is July 6th, 2004.

Let me know if you end up participating in one way or another. This looks to be something the 1,300 members of the organization will get a lot out of, especially as the Canadian federal election will be over and the US national coming up.

clean mobility fuel has nothing to do with al queda

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=580&e=1&u=/nm/20040531/bs_nm/markets_oil_dc

In about 5 years the Al Queda militants will claim victory over oil.

They will claim the divinity of their cause because companies worldwide will have hastened a move to clean fuel with less dependence on oil by that time.

Be assured that Al Queda and the philosophy they twist will have had nothing at all to do with any beneficial change.

There is sure to be a lot of back slapping in those camps though.

This is always the way half-wits treat hindsight or a fortunate turn of events; as if they own providence and have somehow pushed it along with wrong-headed words and deeds. Suddenly an unexpected outcome is included among the greatest of justifications for the 'cause'.

If it happens that as oil dependency declines and Al Queda gets bigger and somehow rises in your esteem know that you have been duped. And if you catch someone dreaming that it is so -- that Al Queda should somehow be credited with erasing the brown cloud over the world? Don't bother to martyr them. Don't give an inch. Don't honor the thought with more than the silent derision it deserves.

energy economy to fall in step with mobile phone and cable subscription

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- please forward to appropriate media
Wednesday, May 05, 2004

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MIT Technology Review: Mismatch Boosts Solar Efficiency
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/rnb_042704.asp?trk=nl
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The time for an inverter program and fast track electricity generating contracts to individuals has come says an energy research partnership in small town Ontario.

Solar developments have been known about for some time, but until now an article that concisely explained it other than in research abstracts hasn't been seen reviewed by a technical journal.

Our inverter program will serve decentralization very well in conjunction with federal and provincial efficiency incentives and fast track contract agreements.

These efforts, however, are largely undermined by concentrated ownership models that create a bureaucracy inhibiting individual partnership in the energy economy.

"Go big or go home does not apply in the 100 year charette proposals the federal government and sustainability experts have been trying to put forward," said Mr. Pozza, principal researcher with the Energy Transition Partnership, a small energy research brain trust in small town Ontario.

"We see the future of power as simple as paying a network fee to both produce and access power," said Mr. Pozza.

He went on to say his organization had identified key areas that could help communities retain their rural economies and keep urban sprawl from gobbling up arable land.

"Part of it has to do with the distribution of dependency," he said. "In the large scale model central ownership can reach only so far to the margins with an infrastructure that spokes out from a generating station. It gets pretty complex, but it really boils down to the degree of separation you have to where power is produced. Something I like to call 'energy convergence close to the margins'."

Mr. Pozza said under a decentralized model medium sized electricity generators and distribution managers (depending on the local mix of ownership) also become hubs that store energy on site from intermittent generating sources by network connected customer/generators.

"When generation reaches a saturation point of about 30 per cent of all buildings in a community we see the beginning to an end of an energy
economy that spawns a multitude of subscription agreements while energy convergence continues into mobility fuels," he said.

Mr. Pozza said he wanted to make it clear that energy convergence with respect to mobility fuels would follow the same history as the mobile phone and cable television markets.

"As mobility fuels increase their electrical potential," he said, "it will be concentrated ownership that will begin a regulatory wrangle intended to break a deadlock. And it will be consumers that will have to pay the price for it in feature rich energy services that don't serve the core principals of a public utility."

"In decentralized ethanol and direct current production we see urban sprawl halted, saving arable land by making local people locally dependent," he said.

With appropriate crops to make ethanol and stimulating local economies these efforts a widespread decentralization will avoid many of the difficulties associated with thinking locally and acting globally," Mr. Pozza said. This global approach to local agriculture and energy production creates a concentration of another kind," he said. "On pesticides, herbicides and, increasingly, on fertilizers to prevent soil depletion there can be no more dangerous effort than to bind food and fuel so centrally.

We believe that the sliding scale of energy input to energy output where the relationship between fertilization and crop quality is concerned is where the rubber meets the road.

Mr. Pozza joked that next his research firm would be making recommendations that would see building code altered all across Canada to invoke sustainability within a renewable energy economy model.

"Yeah," he said. "Next, I'm going to tell every provincial government official I can get my hands on that municipal bylaws should prohibit grid style developments because the roof alignment of homes in such development doesn't promote energy efficiency. I haven't got a hope in hell."


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For more information please contact Tim Pozza of The Energy Transition Partnership.




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tim

Sustainability Northumberland
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecoNorth/
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Northumberland County Freecycle Network
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-- see also --
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social justice in technology adoption will cost more as compressed hydrogen from electrolysis shuts out fuel producers

Yes, we are still waiting on the decision with respect to onboard fuel processing.

However, the debate will rage until roughly 2009 at which point ethanol production will have ramped up within North America making it easy for the red herring developments to be dropped so that you will know where to put your money in the stock market. Otherwise, hold onto your hard earned bucks until your individual investments in automaking and fuel begin to dry up. Then you'll know who the winners have been slated to be.

Smart money is on a hybrid liquid ethanol tank alongside a compressed hydrogen tank and intelligent feed laws that would allow for the massive development of solar electric within the developed world.

But in order to envision this you would have to subtract the interest that fuel producers have in remaining part of the mix and the enormous importance government tax revenues from mobility fuel have on the economy.

You would also have to make people who don't already own cars and solar panels pay through the nose for electricity because of the huge demand personal home electrolysers would have on the grid should compressed hydrogen tanks become the norm. As a result consumers will have to pay extra for a compressed hydrogen tank in the future because it would only be these consumers who would be able to choose an off grid solution by purchasing solar electric panels as an investment in a family's future fuel needs. Enlightened feed laws won't happen until government is sure it can secure revenue from the sale of mobility fuels. This will take a very long time, especially in Canada where municipal budgets will soon be tied to mobility fuel taxes. Fuel companies, as a result, will never allow themselves to die. Along with that, enabling technologies will be sujugated to high broad-based taxes, regulatory barriers, and open hostility.

Good luck people of earth. You will need it. Iceland should be your home, but you wouldn't know what to do with it as you fight over the spoils. *wink

I'm going back to my home planet where we eat pancakes every morning smothered in maple syrup surrounded by lean sausages and accompanied by endless rounds of strong Columbian coffee and Florida fresh squeezed orange juice.

Have fun on earth while you are able. Do come visit me sometime.




Scientific American Frontiers
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1403/video/watchonline.htm

i come from France

Will the real winner please stand up

zero emission efforts reveal delay tactic designed to keep control of market

General Motors has been bleeding money all over Europe. Last year the flood of losses totaled $900 M.

These facts are not surprising as European consumers have shown more backbone on environmental issues than their counterparts in North America and even in emerging markets in China and India.

Automakers are feeling the pinch as they face an unstable market, a fact that forced Daimler-Chrysler recently to sell off its losing Japanese division and head for home where, it says, it will refocus the enterprise on its core values of providing car buyers with top-knotch quality in its products.

Automakers are still trying to figure out which engine and car body designs will allow them to retain control of the vast manufacturing empires that supply parts for their vehicles. But perhaps more telling is how their decisions today will affect the control automakers have on the revenues generated in the used car market. This is the primary reason that automakers are soft selling hydrogen vehicles that have been ready in the form you see them today for several years in favor of pushing the benefits of the hybrid/electric vehicle.

The delays are part of a national security and corporate control effort aimed at keeping allies close and enemies closer. This is seen in the pending US government decision on the type of fuel and its delivery system for worldwide use. Without standards made in the US and entrenched by global automakers it isn't likely any change will be made without US approval.

In Oshawa, Ontario General Motors is building a new paint shop where it intends to dig in an fight it out with the union as employees of the neighboring plant will be under contract to one of GM's suppliers and not directly tied to GM. This tactic is a labor cost saving mechanism GM is known to have used in the past.

Unfortunately, GM has not placed value in the new paint shop on the development of carbon fiber technology or fuel cell dielectric plate production in a vacuum deposition environment. GM only stands to save on labor by circumventing automation agreements with the union and placing its trust in its immediate grasp of supply chain management.

The link attached to the headline above is to the General Motors Marathon project ending in Europe early June. True to the spirit of the Recreational or Sport categorization of the automobile the 10,000 km test will showcase the viability of a hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicle. In this case the hydrogen is in the form of liquid hydrogen, known to be a net energy loser.

Two years ago the NeCar direct methanol fuel cell car successfully toured Europe on a 6,800 km demonstration trip. The car was fuelled with methanol on board the vehicle.

Next month actor and renewable energy advocate Dennis Weaver will launch a California to Vancouver drive of various energy efficient cars.

fuel cell portable power application begins market acceptance

Pure yydrogen fuel cells will be preceeded by direct methanol (natural gas derivitive) portable power. Already close to market readiness are laptop computer direct methanol batteries. A 10-hour recharge is expected to cost under $1. The battery itself is expected to enter the market at approximately the same price as popular NiMh models.

For now the educational opportunities with respect to various portable fuel cell applications are being made available through various kits now on store shelves.

http://www.fuelcellmarkets.com/article_default_view.fcm?articleid=3441&subsite=1102

sustainable mobility in Canada is controlled by fuel and vehicle design

The following link leads directly to the reason why wheat and barley straw is the recommended crop for bio-ethanol.


http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/tp/tp14179/menu.htm

Legalization of this substance would open a floodgate of varieties designed to maximize psychotropic properties.

Not legalizing the substance but, instead, using the plant as a feedstock for fermentable biomass creates the environment for an underground economy of illegal drugs indistinguishable from the plants grown for fuel and other byproducts.

Because this substance approached a legal limbo and fell back to earth without a satisfactory resolution for industry the likelihood that carbon fibre and ethanol/hydrogen fuel production will be decentralized is significantly lessened.

Sustainability within rural economies dependent on decentralized ownership of biomass crop lands and the production and processing end is at threat as 'weaker' crops that do not perform as well or in as many ways to serve the mobility fuel and automaker industries are ignored in favor of legislative barriers rather than cultural ones.

hair today gone tomorrow

* * *

When he saw himself in the street the second time Harry's head swam with a lopsided Zen and he felt swollen where his thoughts normally ticked along in time with his pumping legs.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a horn sounding snapped Harry's attention forward where momentum had pulled his eyes to the side up the road and to the left.

Crash.

Harry catapulted 15 feet ahead into the street while the remains of his expensive 36-speed electric-assist bicycle crunched to a halt in a heap of twisted wreckage.

A millisecond before an envelope of oblivion dropped the overload of pain from his awareness, Harry snapped a mental picture of himself walking away while the thought, "I'll never ride again," flashed through him like an aurora gone wild.

Nothingness.

* * *

And then there was light.

Harry awoke as if from a dream that both he and it weren't really interested in putting away. Awareness came almost as a disappointment where consciousness merely left him throbbing without his knowing whether it was the brighness of the light that caused it or something gnawing at his toes.

It just felt wrong, as though everything had been 'rewired' to place confusion above suspicion and normalcy on probation.

...

* * *

For more about Harry... you'll have to wait.

careers in biotech

http://www.bhrc.ca/biotecareers/Career_Paths/sales_and_marketing.html

how the world will stay mobile

Environment Minister David Anderson and Iogen Corporation VP Jeff Passmore posing at the Globe 2002 Conference held in Vancouver.

Also in attendance was Sir Stuart-Moody, former head of Royal Dutch Shell and now Chairman of the Office of Gas and Electric Management (Ofgem) in Great Britain, the regulatory body for energy. The head of Shell Canada was seen also.


http://www.windsorworkshop.ca/downloads/Passmore.pdf


Recommended:

Fueling the Future

[Wesleyville: Wind to Wheels]

This is what I am up to next week. Look to the news for the issue of
sustainability within the energy economy to arise before or during the
Canadian federal election.


Wesleyville: Wind To Wheels
A return to the PUC and stimulating the rural economy in Northumberland

Thursday, May 20, 2004, 5-8 p.m.

Port Hope Public Library
31 Queen Street

Featuring:

Wind Expert Paul Gipe, Acting Executive Director of the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association.



-- worry about potential unless everyone has it --

focus concentrates hatred

This morning I heard a news photographer describe his approach to
capturing images.

He said that if he saw a Palestinian soldier in the act of sharing candy
with a child he would not take the picture. He went on to say that even
if he did take the picture he would make sure it would never be published.

To me this view no longer upholds the libertarian ideals of journalism.
It is an activism whose purpose is to perpetuate a view of an inhuman
enemy incapable of being other than vermin to be expunged or spurned
even when in view.

Forgetting can not be easy. Forgiving seems impossible.

I hope never to know this.

I hope never to invoke such a testament.



-- in Kill Bill vol. 1 the subsumation of race by culture is evident in
the evokation of Old Testament vengance: a sword is forged to vanquish
the strength of cultural influence as both respect and revulsion for
what this influence represents: the child of the bride does not die but
is, instead, the progeny of a foreign (or confluence) of interests and
culture --

kill bill represents the meta-archetypes of manifest destiny

-- spoilers ahead for people who haven't witnessed Crouching Tiger
Hidden Dragon --

Blogger has upgraded its interface and services. I really like the new
look and am thrilled that I stayed in for some of the exciting added
features.

That's why today, I am submitting my blog entry via e-mail.

Wow. Does this every help me with spelling! Grammar, unfortunately,
still suffers under the impress of my digits and unorganized thoughts.

Welcome to the world of blogging, BTW, if you've never been here. You
might enjoy the catharsis of producing works anyone can read. But, hey, that's half the charm isn't it?

You can get famous among your friends and any relatives you can convince
to visit the echos of your innermost thoughts. I count myself fortunate
that I haven't gushed too much about the daily doses of life that
make up the 'real' me.

Perhaps the virtualization of self and the chance you might get caught
in the 'act' of revealing yourself is as much to do about being watched
over as praying by your bedside at night.

Me? I'm not going to say anything that will tell you more than what I
want you to hear. You're just going to have to read between the lines.

Oh, yeah, I nearly forgot... 'Kill Bill'... Violent... almost genocidal
in its scope if you believe in the meta-archetype theory.

Wait till I break down 'Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon' in that
menacing way I have of making a symbol out of everything. You aren't
going to believe me when I tell you the hidden message is communist
angst about the betrayal of Han culture by the very people who might
have inherited power.

If you remember standing as the observer in the end you may not know
that you represent the unwashed, the untrained in statecraft and power
brokerage, a thief in love with what he can barely understand watching
the heir apparent abandon hope that the Han can be saved from savage
teachings that only half-way interpret the lineage of sagacity.

Whether the Green Destiny can be retired for good remains a mystery.

The message is potent as is the death of the beloved master of the
sword, whose death across water on an island in a sea of dilapidated
housing, was as much caused by half-understood truths as the need to be
close to the plant that could save him.

It took me a while to believe that the movie was as much about the
automobile and sustainability as it is about the apprenticeship of
culture. But now that I see it I enjoy it all the more.

Kill Bill can wait for another day.


-- our fantasies create landscapes in which we can live and which, in
reality, could never be lived --

regulating for Robin of the Hood

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-- what you tell queen ants may be a betrayal of species --

craft as high art

The fascination held in art has pushed even Prince Charles to critique the placement and tenure of architectural constructs within the concept of community and history.

How good does it look seems secondary today to how much does it cost and how much can I get out of it once it is built.

Of course there is a lot that looks good that costs quite little, usually around the tended edges of the buildings our Prince so rightly provides both an a-political and timeless perspective on.

Royalty has its merits.

Perhaps in every country of the world there should be a royalty to which the individual would strive to aspire to please.

Mervyn Pym thought craft the art of the age he described in its ascent to royal hands. And the bejeweled Faberge eggs most certainly expand the imagination at the hatching of taste in patronage.

Today, in England, the Royal Family is not the same patron of the arts that the state is. While around the world public money upholds a corporate rubber stamping of low cost 'fixtures' hanging on walls, sitting on shelves and crouching in gardens.

There is something for everyone. And everyone gets something.

And craft is now a cog in the machine that feeds an assembly line on a landscape of freedom from expression.

When did the Royal touch give way to The Midas Touch?



-- if public money had been spent in making this piece you couldn't afford to read it --

successful interaction transcends inherent imperfections

The old adage 'what you put into it is what you get out' seems like the kind of commercial gloss you'd expect to find as the jingle for an ad selling gasoline for cars.

But dig a little deeper under the derma of this charm and you will find hidden truths that reveal a fractal equation about the role of consumption in making you who you are.

Consider the equation f=f+f(squared). In this iterative attempt to define an endless pattern, it is consumption that defines the product of succeeding generations. F is itself the product of a multiple of itself.

The limits placed on this endless pattern by quanta and the extension of quanta in the expression E=MC(squared) place survival cooperation squarely in the exhange of energy.

By extension, then, it is the interactions of cooperative effort that define the spirit of humanity in the face of having to live with consumption, and the exchange of energy on which this cooperation is based. That energy and matter are inseparable is quite apparent in the act of eating living organisms. To kill, however, goes directly against the spirit of interaction that separates us from the consumptive nature of the universe. I like to think of this as meaning that the infinite in interaction has given rise to a view of itself in human and other sentience along with a supporting ecosystem that is filled with marvelous beings which to share in the gift.

Therefore it is the triumph over consumption of and within our own species and the environment supporting all life that is the transcendent spirit over the inherent imperfections that make us seek the higher order in successful interactions.



-- don't smoke that ... it could kill someone else --

curriculum of interests

Social networking, online learning, and search engine technology may all benefit from the interrelated meta-view describing large chunks of information, however, when the aggregate of elements is put in the grinder and made into sausages, well, then you have an entirely different story.

What's missing in the meta approach moving toward an understanding of the fundamental similarities and the points on which each of the aforementioned claim interrelationship is meaning. Another way to describe this flaw is user context. The user contextualizes the elements which aggregate to form the meta definition of knowledge objects. This is not to say that the user is flawed, only that the implementation of the pivots among various forms lead to a specialization that breaks the unconcentrated infinity of the distance between relationships. In this infinity is defined as 0 where 0 means there is no distance between meaning, in effect making all elements the same thing. Only the starting point where the user enters infinity creates distance between related terms.

An example of this is in the construction of the human body and the bio-chemical/electric transfer of pain to the centre that processes the 'information'. The nerve impulse transmits a message that has no meaning where the 'keyword' was entered but that is given special meaning such as location, intensity, duration, etc. when the keyword is interpreted.

To admit that any feeling at the insertion point of the pain stimuli in any way affects locally would be to deny both the voracity of the interpreted message and stop bio-technology in its tracks.

However, this discussion is about the future of the Internet and the importance of the unconscious interpretation of the impulse where it relates to the distribution of keywords and contextual meaning along nerve pathways of the Internet body without the user's influence.

Suffice it to say that the goal is for the Internet to build itself not on the single user but on the curriculum of interests that now exist within its space.

This may, at first, seem paradoxical. If the user's influence is not to be taken into account how can a curriculum arise where there is not interest?

Your answer lies in making the user obsolete. You must not believe he is there. Your doubt will facilitate the service of the user.


--

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in the knot of meaning
not meaning
the genome of ontology

--

to the nuclear christ in benediction or a Passion play parody

the canticle we worry for 220 Amp service
strikes at us in the crucifixion of the nuclear christ

the Roman jabs to His offence that power must be
tells the corporate Pharisee His birth had not won
an argument for the central glory supply side economy

Tom and Pat Lawson engrave His cross
before the crown is put upon His head
with arguments in transient science
finalities of sentience and memory structured skein

while followers weep for the fishes and loaves
they did not bring to the gathering
putting all their faith in His magesty
but none in their own

Odd says help no one and love not your neighbor
the Lawson truth upholds the wounding
his crown to the fold

take piece and spread concentration
that the message of Odd may never be
but regret of his governance where
the effect to man Pontius did know

but in piety the Lawsons did weep
to strike the first blow with the soldier's hand
telling none that this pain in fire
could the unravelling of ideology free

soldiers carry on knife in the sheaf
while mass destruction soldiers on
and peace keeps itself clean
wearing the crown without blood

been there, done that

-- a day of rest is when we contemplate the sacrifices that can't make for our work --

the untrained and the un-life-tested form basis for stringer theory of journalistic integrity

Do you fear the cardboard box more in death or in life?

If your answer is life then you won't have a problem paying your way into the next generation by making small sacrifices on the altar of survival.

If your answer is death then you understand the institutionalization of a class of Buddhist monks who beg as it relates to the institutionalization of the crucifixion of Christ.


-- thanks to US author William Gibson for recognizing the patterns and telling us where it might put you if you say anything. he should have been a full-time journalist who trained for the job and isn't just stringing --

all is as it should be when it is one

hot is as cold
touch is not touch
with magnetic density
mingling entanglement

this feeling expresses
waveform anxiety
pressed against boundaries
that place us within

within a span of life
experiencing for god
the right hand rule
of limited consequence
only ruined by binary fools
who dislike the container
that time stood still

a forward and backward
viewpoints for sharing
the eyes and the window
for joy get to be



-- a great thanks to British author Phillip Pullman for the concept of the 'Subtle Knife', Max Planck for Planck's Constant and Mr. Einstein for a Relativity good time --

media mediation in the quanta (fixed) reality of virtualized social networks

The social network is 'healed' by face-to-face interactions in which conditionals are expressed without media mediation.

In Zen fashion then the easiest shape of the social network is a sphere the contemplation of which should realize 'it's a small world after all'.

-- the headline made more sense and is deprecating only to the infinity of reality --

ontology of the corporate self serves the team interest

So often when we talk of relationships and the classes within them we come to rest on definitions that take others into account but rarely touch on the self. The self is often regarded as a profile, a class if you will of employee.

Social networking has changed this bias, but it hasn't broken the chains of it in the way relationships are defined.

The ontology of the self is still immature. It resides in different forms everywhere, but it never grows beyond the confines of the interface people have to define elements of self. Social networking is tailored by how those defined elements extend the reach of the self to build teams for whatever function the kernel hierarchy attracts other selves to push as the team exploration.

From a philological standpoint the self is a polymorphic entity containing history as a launching point to new experiences.

Social networking is limited by extension. It is unable to exchange the self by attaching new definitions within limited interfaces. Experience is not carried into the future and change is limited by attaching the limits of a new interface.

This is the case for distributed accessible identities and a complete ontological definition of the self.

The morphology of the self and the low level elements that redefine the interface of self (rather than the self within the interface) is the future of social networking, online learning and species advancement in the machine of technically aided thought/interaction.

What cannot be forgotten is knowledge management ownership and access. The human in the technology must never be forgotten. Tricks of the trade must never be lost even as the bar is raised with specialization. Human validation of mastery must dominate as must face to face iterations for the purpose of advancement.

-- i grew up on television but never had the chance to validate my expertise in channel surfing --

the global GIS proposition to interconnect solutions

could this be a terrorist nightmare or a corporate dream

the Swedish solution

like it or leave it
bio accumulative or not
don't sell me GM
with canola and a piss pot

-- thank jahweh for europe / be it so --

mobility future not firmly grasped by electricity policy

Sustainability in a generation is such a great idea.

The years up to 2012 are very important in terms of greenhouse gas emission reduction by virtue of the expected launch of fuel cell vehicles to market at that time. Estimates place 50% penetration by fuel cells in the vehicle market as late as 2030, however, there are several developments ongoing that will likely accelerate development and adoption of related technologies, not the least of which is die activated solar panels and residential wind along with regulatory frameworks to promote distributed generation and optimize the capture of intermittentcy for redistribution.

India is running out of uranium but has firmly entrenched nuclear in its generating mix in pace with its rapid growth. China is similarly inclined to grow, but has made some tummy grumbling sounds about being hungry for renewable energy -- probably if the price is right and generation can satisfy the enormity of its growth. Watch out for Canada's nuclear extraction industry in the next few years exporting to more than just the US and parts of Eastern Europe. India is a prime and very large customer. Due to transportation restrictions India will likely be purchasing up to 8% enriched.

Remember that Canada's regulatory barriers to nuclear do not exist. Nuclear is a favorable technology to government seeking to supply the needs of the hungry and the weak. Even though Canada is considered 30% less efficient than its US neighbor in energy efficiency subsidies have essentially strangled sustainability, in particular energy conservation. The culture is slowly changing but may not be fast enough with the arrival of fuel cell vehicles.

Electrolysis of water is not considered the most efficient method of producing hydrogen only the most convenient beyond steam reform of natural gas or gasoline. Ethanol is poised to make a very large dent, but only as far as portable fuel goes. The market in cars will likely demand designs that incorporate either ethanol or hydrogen storage or both.

The marriage of hydrogen and nuclear is a done deal without immediate action. In Ontario it will take a year from now to implement even an office of promotion to look at sustainability legislative action. This is dangerous and could be costly.


-- someone asked me about residential fuel cells to spark the rudimentary analysis from my research above/ your comments are much appreciated as is any verifiable information about government timelines, industry insider information and the like --

I've been following advancements on residential fuel cells on several fronts.

At this point the technology is both too expensive and not as mature as some would like it. The hydrogen infrastructure is also a concern, which is now being solved by other hydrogen feedstock such as ethanol.

There are tests ongoing in Japan using a 1 kW model and in the US a fuel cell has been developed that is somewhat smaller than a regular furnace. It converts ethanol onboard.

Most of my fuel cell research concentrates on mobility, but there are obviously many important overlaps between portable power, mobility and home power.

There seem to be a lot of issues needing to be resolved with respect to market penetration of fuel. I don't think anyone is seriously looking at hydrogen piped in at the household level. The connection between hydrogen, water and electricity is still too attractive even with energy loss. The other indicator is that fuel companies have been protected by government from having to provide hydrogen at the pump because of the high cost of conversion. Part of the reasoning seems to be that the cost is too high all at once to penetrate the market at 30%, which is considered critical mass for self-sustained adoption of hydrogen. Essentially, I read this as meaning it will never happen because adoption of vehicles won't be in any concentrated market where distribution ownership is also similarly concentrated.

All monies invested, R&D efforts and technology transfer indicates that it is ethanol that is the chosen source of our future hydrogen needs. Nuclear is bound to follow quickly on the heels of that if oil consumption is also to be reduced and fuel cell vehicles become immediately popular. Home power and portable power will be waiting in the wings for low cost solutions to come from the automotive industry, as they already have done.

the science of extraction cannibalism

or the science of cannibalism extraction... you decide...

[moreonthislater -- retals i ht no erom]

What are you supposed to do when money is given to the government of your country to develop an energy extraction industry that runs power lines or pipelines past your home, providing neither you nor your countrymen any economic or social benefit. The energy is shipped away overhead and your children continue to go hungry.

Is this a socially just application of market penetration and technology adoption?

Is this indemic only to the developing world?


-- my wife and children have left me for my blog --

meta mutations: a search for principal equations

The living of science is not possible.

Somewhere a spirit seeks to harmonize with the beginning and the end of things, and never along the path to righteousness is it known when the thread will snap its judgement, forcing past cracked lips no utterance of truth to this world.

In the movement of planets Kepler found bodies reborn from dust. A finite clockwork of aggregation captured in the motion of mathematics, knowable by us only before the infinite lies still in a time beyond our imagining or measure.

Our concentrations orbiting an inward moving nucleus of species survival splinters an embrittled margin with an ever widening gap. Equations govern the motions of the spirited. The mouse takes the cheese.

In the search for a specialty your path creates an apprenticeship to this science with no mentor but an unframed picture of what might be.

hating oil is passe

No, you read that right... The title DOES read 'hating' NOT 'heating'.

Of course, as we all know, hate is a negative way of expressing one's incapacity to understand, empathize or otherwise find a more constructive and life-affirming way of getting their point across.

So hating oil is passe. It has to be. Thinking otherwise would be tantamount to describing your need for food energy as unnecessary and evil... follow this and you must realize I am saying oil is a necessity of life.

Well it is, isn't it?

It isn't whether you do live without oil that paints you into a corner it is whether you can live without it. Sure, you could make a personal choice to live without oil, but you wouldn't be able to do it. Not even the local health food store goes without relying on oil, or the byproduct of oil, at some point in the chain of inter-nationalized inter-dependency to source product and deliver it to your door.

And no matter what you do about it, you aren't going to make a dent in the foundation upon which you live, even by making a conscious choice about what you buy at the store, put on your table, shade yourself with under the heat of the sun in the summer or heat yourself with in the cold heart of winter. You might as well give up.

Statistics are against you.

Even in the hydrogen economy carbon emissions won't be 100 per cent sequestered. Right now 90 per cent of the hydrogen produced in the world is sourced from reformed fossil fuels. You're still pumping oil out of the ground or releasing natural gas from the crypt of time to extract its precious hydrogen cargo.

The European Union Commission on Sustainable Development has released a draft of its proposed directive governing overall commitments to energy efficiency and energy security. In this draft the EU targets a 60 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by the year 2050.

While this may be good news to some (remember, it takes roughly 80 years for the effects of emissions to dissipate in the 'open' environment) it doesn't mean that oil has been removed from the picture. In fact, there are no specific targets contained in this document that set limits to oil development, procurement or distribution. And nothing in the draft hints that oil companies should now reform existing supplies of refined oil into hydrogen.

The open market dominates. Governments in the industrialized world have all taken a similar tact to the European Union member nations with the caveat that in Canada great consideration is given over to nuclear where nuclear has been implemented already. Private investor ownership greatly guarantees nuclear longevity and the issue is likely to rage on with ferocity for many generations until renewable investments are more attractive than nuclear ones.

Incidentally, nuclear is considered a clean technology by Environment Canada, Industry Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and is an ingrained part of Ontario's electrical generation mix, standing at a whopping 76% of today's base load capacity.

Maybe I should be taken out on the cinder path and punished for my viewpoint on oil. But just who is going to do that? Who is the one person I know that has the right to do that? Maybe a marsupial, but doubtful any human other than a scattered few over there on the dark continent who decided not to join in the agrarian revolution or the following industrial revolution, but seem likely, instead, to develop a footprint in the communications revolutions.

Well, I've said my corporate piece and forgotten the one thing that does make a difference. Careful, it's touchy and feely and could get all over you if you aren't careful. Get out your bleeding heart alert because the word of the day is... investment. No, you thought I was going to say 'togetherness', didn't you. Well, private investment is a togetherness of a sort. Investment in conservation is just another form of paying yourself and the other investors who hold a common share in the same endeavor.

The same could be said of community power initiatives. There are, however, two problems. One is that someone else's investment interests may already be in the way, and two, it isn't necessarily fair that given you can invest in a renewable source of energy and be an owner of a corporate entity, that everyone is going to be given the chance to do so. This second point is probably the one that tells you your investment is going to pay off, no matter what else you can do about it.

We are damn lucky right now that the entire spectrum of generation has been opened to the public. This is a bold and risky move. Special interests like oil aren't going to like it, but be honest, just because someone works for a company you don't particularly like, is no reason not to invite them to invest alongside you. You can either tell them to keep it quiet, or invite them out to the meeting. Chances are even if they believe their technology is cleanest the chance they are offered to invest and profit will at least help your renewable initiative off the ground.

So, the people you should be asking to invest aren't the converted. The people you should be asking to invest are the people who work for and already profit in other energy forms like oil and nuclear.

You might be surprise how willing they are to work with you when you are polite.



-- if I had a polite bone in my body I might convince others I am a Canadian --

the impiety of trial balloons

A trial balloon is a waste of a good piece of man-made material.

The problem with trial balloons is that the people who release them so they can gauge the reaction of the people watching don't really know where they're going or where they'll land for sure. So much time is spent on the prevailing winds that gusts and blasts are ignored in favor of popular prognostication.

Unless you want to place a secular government in someone else's country.

Next time the news reports the loss of yet another monument to organized religion at public place of institution I am going to remember that its being taken away signifies the intent to evangelize the enforced cooperation of someone who doesn't share those same symbolized beliefs by the removal of something someone else holds dear.

Freedom is an entanglement of various forms of subterfuge. Sometimes you have to sacrifice yourself for someone else. Sometimes it is they who are the sacrifice. The altar is pretty commonly understood to be impermanent, but people on both sides use it anyway.


-- the iconoclast is the iconography of the symbolic future --

the morphology of an unconscious artificial intelligence

Have you analyzed the transformation of the social network from TCP/IP switched HTTP containment and element language constructs to a true relational model based on a fractally inorganic morphology of knowledge/criticality intelligence dependent on human activity?

The person in the machine exist along every path to destination. Bandwidth limits pathway determination. Speed forms new synergies passing the ability to take in all relations. Distributed processing. Distributed accessible identity. Distributed subconscious terms. Collected individual, shared and collectivist (discipline-centric) destinations. Keystones locking the arch of intelligence.

The search engine in the sleep of the 'intelligent' machine knows where the hits are.


-- I swear my head gets bent every time I sit at a terminal keyboard --

the consumer law of the conservation of energy

I asked this question today of a renewable energy expert:

What are some of the regulatory changes necessary to uphold energy conservation so intrinsic to renewable adoption and how can these economically advantage consumers?

Please send your ideas.


Here is one that may follow the natural capitalism thema:

Privately build apartment buildings must contribute 40 per cent of all energy required by residents and after X number of years of private ownership the 'land' that each apartment represents falls back into public ownership.


Some of the drivers of this idea are that multi-level buildings extrapolate on surface rights ownership principles entrenched in the economy but that there is less economic benefit to the current methods of deriving income from each new surface level than is represented by the impact on the environment.

Another pretext is that economic and political systems are impacted by centralization of freedoms: that is to say that with either system and related sub-systems ultimate freedom would be complete factional control. This is the balance of type that impinges on personal freedoms as well.

The penultimate reason is economic deconstruction. Making new ownership from old. Making public of the private.
We currently run systems that bias toward the privatization of, for lack of a better term, the public. Using the word public in some way favors the idea that unowned or ungiven everything is public. You would have to believe that government serves the public in order to support the belief that anything handed to the private by government is public in the first place.

Anyway, semantics and self aggrandized argument aside, land lease/ownership is a great example of how economic deconstruction is outpaced by the ability of land to provide capital that is centrally amassed and that creates unending dependencies on the developments placed on those lands.

Still, it wouldn't serve anyone to usurp control of lands and change rules overnight. But it also doesn't serve the public to allow unscalable capital towers to dominate the economic landscape. Such a system does not entrench altruism where an enterprise is no longer individual or concerned with more than its own survival. Further to this is the theocratic indoctrination of the enterprise in its ownership and development of land. As the eternal, just so long as the lease is paid, the revenue stream lasts forever.

An analysis of various political systems and regulatory environments reveals historical wariness around any talk of adopting any limitations to apparent individual freedom, however, when an incorporation no longer mitigates the behavior or obligations of mere individuals you have a collective whose cause is to serve a singular purpose. Fortunately, for the most part, this specialization works because other collective forces also act simultaneously to balance the cultural bandwagon.

The individual, however, is forced to then politicize the party line to the effect of marketing its virtues whatever the impact of achievement may be. Another characteristic of the this corporate organism is its nuclear oligarchy in competition seeking the destruction or occlusion of other organisms discarding ideology as waste products of victory.

Its monotheism is apparent in its evangelism to subsume that can only be telegraphed as far as its reach.

Anyway, now the argument is taking a turn toward a partisan politic.

In the creation of the private the death of it must also be present to serve the public that expects the nutrient of change on which to subsist. And within change the understanding that some needs exist must tailor the regulatory environment of conduct and ownership.

Even the patenting of life may depend on it.




-- the need for energy can be created but never destroyed --

the recentred in a pitched memory

When the magnetic fields of one capitulates to the other the memory formed is of the imbalance in the order of things.

Something had to give. The question of which -- the capitulant or the holdout -- represents harmony and which represents discord is the true play of human activity upon the backdrop of species, origin, evolution... all those fun things that spin miraculously toward heat death or the creation of infinite universes.

Where the human seed sprouts truest is in the spiritual escape from the rigor of survival to a balance of harmony. In this path the admission of true form is an acknowledgement of the imperfect inheritance of the sacrifice each human must make of another to go forward.

Our colonies, our cultures, our pitched battles for resources or ideologies we concern ourselves to make or assert as the form of our limited ability to telegraph the message to everyone that we only wish to be friends.

The centre is perpetually moved by diaspora never to be found and pinned, as wave after wave of emotive contemplation separates us from childhood, family, friends, time and location.

To suffer the heat death alone or to spawn a new universe is a task no cyberdraped evolution can influence or overcome.

It is the only certainty is the life placed in your own hands.

The only transience is the clarity held against the sanctity of all life.



-- this ice is my environment --

the avatar of complexity in an age of specialization

The random cameo of intellectual property patents as financial assets marks the full polarization of open source and corporate protected product developments.

The staking of identity claims are compelling evidence of the branded avatar that is the space between the screen and keyboard and the content massaged by this medium by user or users. Existing in this space we have dubbed 'cyber' is the institutionalization of the electron, the healthcare of the digital pulse, and the medieval metronome of the cycle built for and by a church of believers but used by an unabashed techno-secularized rabble of the incongruous.

Welcome to the avatar. If you try to read any of it at all you are its master and always in immersion or not a slave to understanding.



-- when I ask for your identity I do so for the purpose of security --

patterning for the reactionary dilemma

Activism is not an essential role of the mainstream media unless it is to report an incident of activism or a populist activist movement that can no longer escape notice.

An election platform by a recognized political party is an activist movement that is palatable to the mainstream media.

Environmentalists must realize that a body of evidence is simply a diverse collection of information that has no head and no tail. In other words, to the mainstream, there is no animal with which to wrestle. There is no recognition of a centrist dogma to an environmental movement as there is with a recognized discipline that has an apparent contribution to the economic well being of news readers.

It is incumbent on activists to rephrase their 'industry'. In fact, this word 'industry' is a useful tool environmentalists are missing. By extension 'industry' in context says that money is to be made and that the future is being preserved. It is the watchword of the mainstream definition of progress that persists today despite the body of evidence suggesting that industry is complicit in damaging the environment by profiting from the maintenance of dependencies and systems that have a detrimental impact.

Environment Industry.

Today the environment industry reported...

Wind and solar became industries.

Now the environment must rephrase itself without redefining its core goals. Part of this effort may require activism to become bound under recognized consortia consisting of members who propel issues by arguing over them. There is never any news in agreement.

For social justice advocates of the environment industry to be outspoken against the actions of Greenpeace on the same issue gives both members of this consortia voice.

So, along with the environment industry, remember to make your arguments with this industry's idealogical members public without taking umbrage that this has been done to you or allowing the public play of conjecture to devolve into mashing the issue out of sight.

Without money the only tool available to activism is its ability to relate to the public in a meaningful and expected way whatever the message may be.




-- today the mainstream reported the end of the world at the height of economic prosperity. party politicians were unavailable for comment, the leader of government having spent the last hour of life with family. opposition members berated the ruling party saying the environment industry had predicted an end to the world five years ago if changes were not made. the opposition stated that while it was last in power its initiatives would have saved the world but these had been cut when the first budget of the current government was released. so long... thanks for all the ... fish --

escalated ambiguity a reactionary dilemma

It has been my experience that anything done by government usually exists in the planning stages for at least five years before it is implemented.
That's five years of public money spent to plan around various scenarios to derive a final policy based on whatever outcry initial release elicits from the paying public.

It is a fine line that exists between service and leadership.

Many of the decisions of government are not made by the elected officials, rather it is the product of study that results in public policy usually at the department level.

Civil servants investigate or cause to be investigated various issues relating to the smooth operation of public institutions into an uncharted future based on expected and historical conditions.

Even as the libertarian ideals that have grown in the past two and a half centuries have made a good portion of this operation transparent, and that the system itself continues to work toward openness, there still exists the problem of public advocacy on issues not directly related to trade and industry. It is the failure of mainstream media to capture the lagging attention of the public on issues that are mere tributaries to the confluence of ideology asserted in action.

These early nodal points of public policy formation are more often identified within the discipline to which they may apply when implemented and are usually tagged with some sort of economic advancement for the monitoring agency. Trade publications are one manifestation of this need to monitor developments at a low level.

The mainstream press can not bring all the issues and early developments to all the people all the time. The office of the ombudsman is less likely to serve the public on public policy development than a not-for-profit consumer advocacy agency. The public is not as well funded as industry to monitor government as monies collected from the public by government aid in the motions of government and not in the mechanisms tailoring and ensuring the voracity of its platforms.

The mainstream amplifies ambiguity by treating only the symptoms of public policy implementation and not the incremental input the process of deriving public policy needs to power its maturity.

Who but a politician has the time to ask the flood of questions required by the system of government it must then answer with public policy?

Moral ambiguity is present in the mainstream treatment of public policy. As a general rule judgements with respect to slant rarely branch into the root causes of events, instead concentrating on impact and effect as if to affect closure by stimulating public response for regulatory order.

This is the reactionary dilemma of the mainstream.

tax revolt is terrorism

In many cases private ownership is funded by public funds with the idea of protecting the public -- doing the things necessary to ensure energy security, food security, even national security by funding military readiness.

The legacy of the 20th century is that national security and corporate longevity has been placed ahead of the combined intelligence of the public to engage its collective funds in meaningful ways that assist in the welfare of all, including the marginalized and/or disenfranchised 'members' of mainstream society.

To underwrite change without violence, without dictating market activity or interrupting markets that employ caveat emptor as their market viability, or even without directing public money to research and development of technologies for the purpose of transferring new developments to interested parties, even income tax revolt would be ineffective because the tax revenue generated by the public's dependency on non-renewable forms of energy protects government from having to rely on how much each participating member of the public is able to generate in personal revenue.

What we have is not freedom. Freedom is a misnomer that provides no limitation on the individual or the enterprise. Freedom does not include the ideas of interdependence and governance. Contextually, the modern definition of freedom is the right to participate in making change. Once the ability of the individual to participate is compromised by means of financial dislocation this freedom is made inert. The cost/benefit ratio of participation impinges on the ability of the societal dependent to survive within the system.

The connection between capitalism and democracy is the distribution of domination, quite possibly superior to any other system of approach to governance, but one in which the service of upholding and regulating it pander to an elite nonetheless.

Where policy infringes on freedom is its unwilingness to acknowledge the incorporation of social dictums that run contrary to the operation of the government of the day -- communism for instance. The 'system' of government is a social network whose bounds are loosely defined by the longevity of its supporters. As the ability of corporations to promote policy on a timeline that spans generational boundaries and by this token exceeds the system that limits governance it is apparent that it is the corporation that has the greatest influence on government and the spending of public money to its own advantage.

Income tax revolt is therefore an act of sedition or terrorism in the eyes of government that believes the collection of tax is a measure to protect the public from the threats it has studied on behalf of the public.

the passionate pressure seeks reflection

Scouring the Net for pithy commentary I've come across both the elevated and the base.

One slip on the keyboard can trigger something deep and dark to eclipse your horizon or lead you to the passionate embrace of the sublime.

And then it is time to move on.

Whatever your prediliction, there isn't much time to really understand where you've gone without taking the time to reflect on the sights seen on the journey.

May you someday have the time to reflect and build true memories.


-- your conversion has begun --

the state of self-loathing in the realm of discontent

Being an environmentalist does not equate with self-loathing. Nope.

For accuracy's sake let's say you are not an environmentalist.

That'll do.


-- the cryptic is necessary for brevity --

questions I asked today

Electric vehicles in India

Does USAID monitor the involvment of American corporations in developing countries where it concerns the readiness of nations to accept non-traditional technology in a market for which a regulatory environment may not be readily available?

Mission-critical blows away wind power

This discussion occurred on Sunday, April 4th, 2004 commencing at approximately 8:17 p.m. and ending at 8:35 p.m.

Kelly: Hello! My name is Kelly, and I am a (Live) Fanatical Service Specialist with Rackspace. I am here as a site guide to answer any questions you may have about our products and services.
Kelly: Are you researching a new hosting project or looking to replace or upgrade an existing solution?

Guest53215: i was kind of interested to learn a bit about your hosting. I wanted to find some host that is focused on using only renewable energy
Guest53215: hello?
Guest53215: Kelly, are you there?

Kelly: Hello,

Guest53215: hey

Kelly: sorry just got that through, one moment

Guest53215: np

Kelly: Okay I am sorry abou the delay
Kelly: well as to your requirements I think they are wondeful, or your interest

Guest53215: s, ok
Guest53215: thanks

Kelly: I am not aware of any hosting company doing that.

Guest53215: really?
Guest53215: well, that's not good

Kelly: at this time renewable engergy is just not cost effective in a production environment, servers take a lot of power.
Kelly: and they require absolute redundancy

Guest53215: i guess they must
Guest53215: how many do you have on site?

Kelly: even a second of downtime and doctors lose patient records, sytems and applications fail, etc.
Kelly: we have around 9,300 across 4 locations.

Guest53215: so, i guess wind power is out of the question then
Guest53215: you don't suppose I could have you send me an email with this information do you?

Kelly: Yes, well I think there may be a market for mixing in renewable resources with traditional power at some point, but with data centers, they focus more on 100% availabilty, redundant power grids, etc..

Guest53215: i am tim.****@sympatico.**

Kelly: I can send you an overfview pdf.

Guest53215: i can't capture this conversation

Kelly: yes I can send this to you.
Kelly: and an overview.

Guest53215: can you describe the problem with renewables?
Guest53215: ok, that would be great

Kelly: well I think I just did, but I am not an engineer.

Guest53215: i am still interested in your company
Guest53215: is there a way to become a reseller?

Kelly: As I see it, essentially it costs serveal times more to use that type of energy

Guest53215: can you be absolutely sure you are giving me valid information

Kelly: and in a competitive market place that is a difficult number to add to themix.

Guest53215: someone's career may depend on this
Guest53215: not yours

Kelly: I cannot be sure, however I know that we do not have solar powered servers or wind powered servers, and immediate plans for that in the future.
Kelly: Do I know it is more expensive and less reliable at this time, of course that is a given.

Guest53215: what about purchasing electrical power from companies that provide energy from renewable sources?

Kelly: do I know servers take a lot of power and that if they are mission critical, yes.
Kelly: Well I think most providers do that, I know the our local power service uses some wind generatros.
Kelly: generators.

Guest53215: ah, well that's different then

Kelly: not sure of the mix, just that they do R&D and work with renewable resources.
Kelly: as to reseller programs
Kelly: we do not offer them in the commons sense, meaning

Guest53215: do you know the name of your power company?
Guest53215: is it the same for each of the four locations?

Kelly: you cannot buy our servers and reseller them with your own branded name.

Guest53215: oh, ok

Kelly: No it is not, we are based in San Antonio, and that would be City Public Service of San Antonio,

Guest53215: you can just move registered IP addresses then, i guess, right?

Kelly: I have no idea who it would be in Virgina, or London.

Guest53215: London, England?

Kelly: I am not sure what you mean, we assign IP addresses, you move domain names.
Kelly: yes London, England.

Guest53215: whoops, sorry

Kelly: You can resell from our servers.

Guest53215: where is your other location?

Kelly: to smaller webhosting clients
Kelly: we have 2 data centers in San Antonio.

Guest53215: oh, ok. and you are based in San Antonio?

Kelly: our servers start from the low $400's a month.
Kelly: yes we are based in San Antonio.

Guest53215: do you also do development?

Kelly: Is that the kind of price range you were considering?

Guest53215: as in database development and such

Kelly: we do not, we have clients who do that, we do not compete with them.

Guest53215: well, i was hoping for something a little less expensive

Kelly: Typcially hosts who do development either do not do it well.
Kelly: Or they do not host as well as they should

Guest53215: so what's on your typical backend then?

Kelly: yes again we are geared toward mission critical environments, we host for a great number of high profile clients.
Kelly: we have 4-5 Tier providers per data center.
Kelly: Tier1
Kelly: I meant

Guest53215: lol
Guest53215: right
Guest53215: ok

Kelly: AT&T, Spring Qwest

Guest53215: wow
Guest53215: big names

Kelly: no transit stuff like Level 3, Internap, or Abovenet etc
Kelly: and of course Sprint, no spring and TimeWarner, UUnet etc.

Guest53215: so you are a major part of the backbone i would guess

Kelly: anyway, we do have a company loosely affiliated with us
Kelly: www.serverbeach.com

Guest53215: what do they do?
Guest53215: hosting?

Kelly: they start around $100 a month
Kelly: yes, dedicated self-managed servers

Guest53215: that's getting down around my price range...
Guest53215: is it better if I talk to them or can you do that for me?
Guest53215: and are we talking in USD?

Kelly: I would check them out, they do nice work, you would have to contact them.
Kelly: Yes in uSD
Kelly: they were started by our founder
Kelly: but a totally indpendent company

Guest53215: i guess i'll take the recommendation...
Guest53215: can you still send me this conversation?

Kelly: Yes I can do that.

Guest53215: that would be fantastic...


World renowned wind expert Paul Gipe is also making a presentation on wind energy to the Ontario Rural Council at the Holiday Inn in Peterborough on April 6th, 2004 at 1:00 pm.
Mr. Gipe has shown Ontarians how they can win big with wind under advanced renewable tariffs.

-- and my sister-in-law calls ME a shit disturber... where did she come up with THAT!! --

-~`craZy talk -- free energy -- craZy talk`~-

> I would also like to experiment with on-board electrolyzers
> for vehicles but I don't think there is much public interest
> there. For example, since I had gotten an invite to the
> DARPA/Army power sources conference this year I emailed
> the head of the U.S. Army lab about on board electrolyzers
> and asked if they had ever looked at them or might be
> interested in the concept.
>
> Seeing as a 30% boost in mileage would equate a 30%
> increase in range for vehicles in the field. That was 3 weeks
> ago and so far no response. That same guy answered me
> in 2 days when I wrote to him previously regarding the cost
> of attending the conference.
>
>
> MJ


MJ,

People don't believe that 'free energy' crazy talk. I know, I've tried it.

But don't think that the idea of onboard eletrolosys is publicly unacceptable. You're just going to find it very difficult to engineer a system for which the size of the fuel cell and a tank in a production vehicle conveniently fills all the available space. They won't give you an inch. Better you design both the fuel cell and the electrolyser from scratch to retrofit a new system onto the mounting brackets (too bad the news designs are going to be integrated skateboards).

As always responding to the gaps in the market is the best way to approach market viability. If you can squeeze 30 per cent more out of it and extend range by onboard eletrolosys there will be people to buy it. Just don't expect the government not to feel cheated out of revenue on the fuel they are 'missing' out on.


Sincerely,
tim


-- the pearls of discussion are beaded on the string of wisdom --

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Imagine a world in which people are rewarded with fuel today that is less expensive than it was yesterday because it is more cost effective to make it containing more poison justified by the fact there is less supply and more need.

Imagine a world in which natural gas is legally declared a renewable resource by government so that it can appear investment in renewable energy is greater on the basis that doing so will stimulate renewable energy development.

Imagine a world in which I am considered free to make energy choices of my own but am not allowed to get my friends together to compete with corporations who produce energy -- even when that corporation is a public utility owned by me and my tax paying friends.

You aren't dreaming. You aren't imagining. You're sleeping in the real world. Wake me up too, will you?

-- 'efficacy' is a word in the dictionary --

aPrIl FoOlS ~*energy fear mongering~* ApRiL fOoLs

April Fools on a procrastinator's schedule means it ain't for foolin'. Get it?

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...to hoax or not to hoax. that is the question...

Please send any blackout picture submissions you may have just kicking around. Specifically, I'd like to see something from the outages in Britain and Europe that have portable power advocates bursting forth over there.

-- over there is an over here perspective when acting globally and thinking locally --

the critic in us all

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Sir Peter Ustinov 1921-2004

famous environmentalist shot in corridor

Shoot Your Favorite Environmentalist


Ed Begley Junior

Wave to Ed...

Have a picture to share of your favorite environmentalist that you snapped yourself?

Please send your shots from the wilds along with the person's A/S/L and the interesting environmental facts that tuned you into this special person's activism in the first place.

A link or two to the major work of your captured environmentalist should accompany any submission.

celebrity@stippletrout.com

Thanks.

culture vulture tutorials

His book is free. Author Lawrence Lessig is not likely to be looking for Disney-style copyright kickbacks on this one.

Lessig, an influential scholar and Stanford University law professor, has joined with the ranks of authors who are dabbling in the fine art of licensing. Among them are Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Dan Brown and Cory Doctorow.








AND the home of the RSS standard is ... here.





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want to exploit the environment ? -- GO HERE --

Flight of the Exxon Valdez

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When the US team started recording atmospheric carbon dioxide in the late 1950s, levels were around 315 ppm and have risen ever since.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects that, if unchecked, carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere will have risen to between 650 and 970 ppm by 2100. As a result, global temperatures would warm by nearly 6ýC compared with 1990 levels, the IPCC predicts.

NOW... With all of that information ...
Can you spare a minute or two today
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Dear Cyberactivists, To learn why to take action now go to:
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/bin/view.fpl/10048/action_id/201.html


Today, March 24, is the 15th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and we're calling on ExxonMobil to spend their time and energy cleaning up Prince William Sound, instead of spending it squelching freedom of speech. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez spilled over 11 million gallons of oil, and we've seen the remaining impacts of the spill that the people of Prince William Sound are still facing everyday.

ExxonMobil has refused to pay the damage claims ordered by a federal court, and has managed to keep the case in court almost continuously since the disaster.

At the same time, ExxonMobil is suing Greenpeace in an attempt to silence us from exposing Exxon's corrupt environmental policies. The case stems from a peaceful protest that occurred at ExxonMobil's headquarters last May when activists, some dressed in colorful tiger costumes, declared the headquarters a "global warming crime scene." The activists were protesting ExxonMobil's continued denial of the science behind global warming and ExxonMobil's blatant efforts to undermine the Kyoto Protocol and other solutions to the problem.

To tell ExxonMobil to spend their time and money cleaning up the Valdez spill, not fighting Greenpeace, visit: http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/bin/view.fpl/10048/action_id/201.html

Thanks for your help.

Jessica Coven
Climate & Energy Campaign
Greenpeace

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listen -- strap on the haedeFones

National Public Radio : How Hydrogen as Fuel Fares Overseas

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Dr. Seuss a posthumous adbuster

Accept no cheap (l)imitations...

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For more Dr. Seuss advertising artwork see:
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oil greases government -- Henry Ford parody

"The Land! That is where our roots are. There is the basis of our physical life. The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity. From the land comes everything that supports life, everything we use for the service of physical life. The land has not collasped or shrunk in either extent or productivity. It is there waiting to honor all the labor we are willing to invest in it, and able to tide us across any local dislocation of economic conditions. No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between man and a plot of land."
-Henry Ford

Borrowed from a Livejournal Entry at:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/ecovillage/

"The Money! That is where our roots are. There is the basis of our physical life. The farther we get away from the money, the greater our insecurity. From the money comes everything that supports life, everything we use for the service of physical life. The money has not collasped or shrunk in either extent or productivity. It is there waiting to honor all the oil we are willing to invest in it, and able to tide us across any local dislocation of economic conditions. No environmental assurance can be compared to an alliance between oil and a plot for money."
-Henny Fjord

Public Figures to Prove It
US Motor Fuel Tax Outperforms
Corporate Net Income Tax Revenue
http://www.census.gov/govs/www/qtax.html

Canadian Statistics Offering Similar View
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/govt01a.htm

environmental debunker turns sights on Adam Smith

From the wink, wink, nudge, nudge files comes the continuing saga of Bjorn Lomberg whose controversial book 'The Skeptical Environmentalist' had the author up on charges of scientific dishonesty by the Danish scientific establishment. Now Lomberg, who beat the rap, is heading an effort to 'save the world'.

Perhaps Mr. Lomberg should be given a standing ovation for attaching a price tag to the environment. The only way, it seems, for current economic models to validate environmental problems and issues is by determining the 'worth' of each article now contained by faith alone. By attacking the economic postulate that labor is the exclusive source of wealth it may now be possible to set a standard for conduct under legislative decree not possible since Adam Smith taught us the road to riches by valuing the contribution of people -- an ideology of revolution consumable by the thinkers of his time who used calculation to build wealth.

Perhaps the work done under the Copenhagen Consensus will redefine economics to include what has only been known and acted upon by intuition since the days of Smith, and not by the calculation upon which so many decisions to exploit are made.

Like a phoenix new methodologies arise from the ashes of what was. With the environment at stake it isn't a good idea to rely on a miracle as the phoenix does. In reality if we get to ashes we are too late.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/7/23496/47566

The Economist magazine has started a project, headed by Bjorn Lomberg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist", to gather together economists and domain experts to answer the question of how the world should rank its problems and how they can be dealt with.

In this weeks Economist there is an article outlining the project. The project also has its own website.

atonement in the rough

A Golf course has a lot in common with a road when you get right down to it. That's not a popular view though, is it? It's a little like saying, "hey, your mother's ugly" or worse, meeting your friend's new baby and saying it's head isn't the right shape.

When you go out golfing you do it for the sport, for the exercise, maybe even for the cameraderie, but rarely, if at all, to criticize the developer of the golf course for having made the thing in the first place.

Face it, the guy who developed your local greens is probably outside more often than you and he knows a lot more about things like walkways for ducks and geese or how to keep offending critters and the dung they leave behind in someone elses backyard. He alone cares what is under the tender footfalls of the avid bunch teeing off in the morning mist.

He knows the lie of the land and how to arrange it so there isn't a bunch of junk in the middle of everything like beer bottles, cans of pop, fast-food wrappers, barrels of PCBs and used needles. He is a saint for the sake of his property. He does what Tolkien does in "Leaf by Niggle". He tends his garden and earns his wings as his satisfaction grows in accomplishment.

Meanwhile, as he grows older and he diverts a stream or two to make way for expanded fairways or a creek runs dry from suburban encroachment, he sprays pecticides for grubs and anti-fungal agents to combat leaf mold.

Then he gets cancer and dies at home with his loving family in attendance all around him. He goes to the big golf course in the sky and leaves his earthbound riches to his children. And suddenly it doesn't matter that his son has the worst slice of anyone he's ever seen swing a driver or that it is his daughter whose handicap is pro-ready also has a head for business.

He lived. He golfed. He died.