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59 comments on Peak Oil Booklet - Chapter 2: Is This a False Alarm?

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Gail the Actuary on July 17, 2007 - 6:25pm

I changed the Alpha Bank reference the way you suggested.

I changed both the question and answer to the Jack 2 question (#8).

Let me know if you like this better.

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BKhere on July 17, 2007 - 10:30pm

Hi Gail,

Yes, that change to Jack 2 makes more sense to me. Will's suggestion - "Jack 2, for which reliable production technology does not exist..." - may be "more to the point" for some people, but I think the specificity that the Q&A now contains is more concrete for the general reader.

Another suggestion: Anytime you reference the past on a web site as you did in the second part of your question: "Newspaper articles last year seemed to say..." it's better to include the "when" -- "Newspaper articles in September 2006 seemed to say..." You can't guarantee when someone will read your brochure, thus "last year" doesn't provide a real-world time frame.

Most people writing on the web don't think to add dates to web sites or in PDF files. In the olden days of print media that annoying work was the job of editors and production staff. Moreover, each edition had a date in an obvious place (May 2007; Vol. 7, Issue 12) that could be referenced.

Given that PO discussion is ALL about time - what did they know and when did they know it and when will life as we know it all go to hell in a handbasket, I suggest being a nerd about dates whenever possible.

Many thanks for tolerating my picky comments.

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Gail the Actuary on July 17, 2007 - 11:38pm

Good point. I changed the reference to September 2006.

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