The Oil Drum

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