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ANewLand on February 17, 2007 - 10:55pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top

Hi everyone.

You may not know me. I have posted only on several occasions, heavily during several ethanol discussions. I have my opinions.

I am negotiating a weekly column on energy issues for national syndication in mostly daily U.S. newspapers.

The column will be general-purpose mainstream for average American on energy production, consumption, infrastructure, technology, politics, etc. It will assume near-term severe global warming and peak oil disruptions and will aim to educate and lead for a sustainable reaction and conversion, if still possible?

This is the premier peak oil site with a lively informed if overly technical roundtable. I look here daily (hourly, minutely :)) for ideas and inspiration. Great site!

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totoneila on February 18, 2007 - 12:11am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Hello ANewLand,

Good for you! Please refer your future readers to TOD, and/or help the TopTODers listed on the right [along with the satellite TODsite TopTODers], to get further MSM recognition so Yergin and Lynch don't get all the broadcast airtime. My belief is we need a lot more people than just Simmons, WT, RR, Kunstler, and Deffeyes trying to counter the 'don't worry, be happy, go shopping' CERA & Khosla Iron Triangle message.

WT and RR have what?--maybe an hour total of TV facetime compared to how many hours of Yergin facetime? I wish Simmons or somebody could conceive of a counter-conference to CERAweak that the MSM would cover with the same intensity. He certainly has the connections and political clout.

Bob Shaw in Phx,Az Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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Asebius on February 18, 2007 - 12:22am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

ANewLand wrote:

The column will be general-purpose mainstream for average American....

It will assume near-term severe global warming and peak oil disruptions and will aim to educate and lead for a sustainable reaction and conversion, if still possible?

Hmmm..... mainstream doomerism. Should your negotiations lead to a deal, I would say a threshold has been crossed.

BTW, this is why I seldom read columns. I've always had this image of the wannabee columnist doing the circuit, assumptions in hand, hawking and flogging his concept. He then remains "on message", week after week, delivering sermons to the faithful.

What ever happened to honest intellectual inquiry?

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Heading Out on February 18, 2007 - 1:35am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The object of the post was to let everyone know where to look, so can you provide a link? (And to those who follow this, since I forgot to mention it in the main post) Links are good!

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totoneila on February 18, 2007 - 2:39am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Hello HO,

I know it is impossible to stop blog and website creation, but a potential problem with this is that PO + GW newbies can spend alot of time off-track before they find the motherlode, or worse case spend big money on CERA reports. I always make sure to tell newbies: if they only have a few minutes/day, to make sure and check into EnergyBulletin.net first. I think Bart & team do a great job of websurfing to pull together critical info [although Leanan is coming on very strong =) ]. From EB, the newbie will find TOD, LATOC, etc.

I think it is only a matter of time until we have to pay by the byte when electricity gets real expensive. My hope is that EB, TOD, LATOC, and Dieoff will be the last ones still functioning. That is why I post here instead of my own blog--I hope the archives are maintained for a longtime postPeak so that late newbies will see how hard we all worked to try and inform them and to help them prepare for what comes next.

Bob Shaw in Phx,Az Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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Nick on February 18, 2007 - 1:05pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

"I think it is only a matter of time until we have to pay by the byte when electricity gets real expensive."

ummm...why? Oil & gas are only 20% of US electrical production, and generation costs are only about 50% of retail electricity prices, so if it quintuples in price that only increases retail prices by 40%. Even that would be temporary, as gas would be phased out pretty quick. Coal might double in cost for CO2 sequestration (from about 4.5 cents/kwh to as much as 9 cents), or we might just burn it as is, but we'd use it one way or another, don't you think?

Wind could easily be 20% of generation in 15 years, and nuclear at 20% isn't going away. Why would peak oil be a threat to the electrical grid?

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AlanfromBigEasy on February 20, 2007 - 8:08am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I hope that you keep my "10% Reduction in US Oil Use in 10 to 12 Years with Mature Technology" in mind. This is a silver bullet that can be used in addition to other silver bullets.

http://www.lightrailnow.org/features/f_lrt_2006-05a.htm

Happy Mardi Gras ! :-)

Alan

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