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The most difficult and time-consuming job will be to sort out the comments. They contain a lot of opinionated stuff which is of no long-term interest (except for historians and sociologists). A minimum solution would be to extract the often very valuable links in these comments and some technical calculations and graphs.
The book must also be flexible in structure and easy to update.
Actually the opinions are important if you can group them and rationalize them. By covering opinions on peak oil it divorces the problem peak oil from peoples view of the problem. Right now if someone is peak oil aware they tend to focus on the opinion side not the event itself.
Mitigation strategies would also have their own opinion section sense they have to have a social component.
It can show you can believe in peak oil and not be a doomer :)
A point that should be made about peak oil is its similar to global warming what you believe will not change the facts in the long run.
Both will happen or not regardless of peoples opinions.
Done correctly discussing opinions would can be very helpful and useful.
Since overall they are tied to speculation about the effects and responses to peak oil not the event itself.
First to TOD, great concept, and greatly applauded! I have over 1000 energy related sites in my favorite box, and hundreds of technical papers I have downloaded in PDF form on everything from AC motors for electric cars to Battery alternatives and Consortiums, to wind rotor theory, and Zero point theories leading to Fusion in a Mason jar!! Needless to say, the Hubbert Peak material alone and Hirsch report stuff I have would make a small book, and natural gas could fill a library shelf....I am waiting for my hard drive to crash through the bottom of my machine from the sheer volume....and I am now getting to the point I can't find all of my own "reference" material when I want it.
memmel's point is well taken. I would love to see some way to have a strictly alternaties tab or page or something, one that would not argue over dieoff and immigration and such stuff as issues, but instead, link real world work so far, and links to development in conservation, solar, wind, electric and hybrid drive, methane recapture, and really great but little known work such as RR and others work on biobutanol and other methods of biomass use (many now have been so swayed by the media they thing alcohol (ethanol) is the ONLY biomass option, so if you say you think biomass is an option, your considered for ethanol. REAL research work and sources should be seen by the public, and TOD can help on this.....great starting idea.
Roger Conner known to you as ThatsItImout
and I am now getting to the point I can't find all of my own "reference" material when I want it.
Hi Roger, have you thought of using Google Desktop or something similar? Personally, I use Furl (furl.net) to bookmark pages, annotate them and to have a remote copy.
> The book must also be flexible in structure and easy to update.
But also easy to "roll back" to see what we were saying yesterday, least week, a month ago, a year ago... that's the nive thing about wiki, don't know anything about drupal.
Version control is a very noisy bee in my personal bonnet