The Oil Drum: Implications of Energy Return on Investment, Peak Oil and the Concept of “Best First”
The following is a post by both Dr. Charles Hall and EROI Guy. Most of the material comes from a recently published book chapter titled “Peak oil, EROI, investments and the economy in an uncertain future.” The book can be found here. Dr. Charles Hall is a professor of Systems Ecology at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, and has written about energy issues many times on The Oil Drum, found here.
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The enormous expansion of the human population and the economies of the United States and many other nations in the past 100 years have been accompanie...
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The Latest From Carnival of the Liberals' Hosts: On Storytelling
Back in November, Greta Christina wrote about how to overcome religious influence in politics, specifically in relation to Prop 8 and gay rights. At the time, I left some thoughts in a comment, which I think is worth developing into a full post.
I wrote back in 2006 about The Da Vinci Code, noting that although the movie was a bit of fantasy fluff that took major liberties with historical fact, it drew incensed reactions and paranoid denunciations from Christian religious leaders all around the world - a far larger backlash than most atheist critiques provoke. I offered an explanation for why ...
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New Year's Resolutions for Game Industry Newbies
There is a new article on GameCareerGuide.com, also reprinted on Gamasutra.com, titled, Ask the Experts: 10 New Year's Resolutions. Here's the intro:
Here are 10 things all you soon-to-be game developers might try to accomplish in 2008 to help get you closer to that first video game job.
Here is the list:
Attend a conference.
Join the IGDA.
Read the news on Gamasutra.com every day.
Read job ads.
Talk to developers.
Wise up about your future paycheck.
Play games outside your preferences.
Write, publish, speak.
Sketch something.
Read a game-related book.
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Deconstructing Israeli PR.
The core issue in this struggle is the illegality of Israel's brutal occupation. Israel goes to great lengths to avoid and suppress all mention of it and play-acts the pathetic victim, notes Stuart Littlewood.
While the murderous assault on Gaza continues, I notice there's a briefing document on the website of the Israeli Embassy in London which has a lie in every line. The West's mainstream media repeat them, and even the most senior TV and radio interviewers don't bother to challenge them.
The document is a transcript of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's statement to the Israeli press dated 27 ...
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Europe and the Empire, by Charles Coulombe
EUROPE AND THE EMPIRE
Charles A. Coulombe
I am a European. This may sound rather strange, given that I was born in New York, have lived most of my lif
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Large California contingent could boost state's clout in D.C.
WASHINGTON California will regain some of its political mojo next year, on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
On Capitol Hill, California lawmakers
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re: It's not about you just that I need advices
Look back within yourself. Define who it is that is you again. I don't pretend to know your situation, but I've helped many in the span of my life. No
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Recountings from the County - Part 8
At the last Belknap County Republican Committee meeting, former Governor John H. Sununu came to speak to the group as he has now cast his hat in the r
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Evolution of the ASP.NET Test Process (part 1)
For those of you interested in testing methodologies, in these series of posts I'll go over how the QA team has changed the way we test ASP.NET over t
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One less diacritical mark to annoy me
Being a Portuguese-speaking person living in the US, one of the things you have to get used to
is the keyboard physical layout and key mappings. You
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