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9 comments on The 'Peak' Summit: An Informal ASPO & Oil Drum Gathering
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"Peak" "Summit" hah!

But wouldn't you rather hold it here in historic Birmingham where all this energy and transport revolution and so on began?
World's then tallest bridge (1829) over world's then largest earthworks:
More canals than Venice:
http://www.culture24.org.uk/places+to+go/west+midlands/birmingham/tra23386
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_British_canal_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCN_Main_Line
Soho House:
http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/soho/soho.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soho_Foundry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soho_Manufactory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soho_Mint
William Murdoch (sometimes spelled 'Murdock') was the first to utilize the flammability of gas for the practical application of lighting. He worked for Matthew Boulton and James Watt at their Soho Foundry steam engine works in Birmingham England. In the early 1790s, while overseeing the use of his company's steam engines in coal mining in Cornwall, Murdoch began experimenting with various types of gas, finally settling on coal gas as the most effective. He first lit his own house in Redruth, Cornwall in 1792.[2] In 1798 he used gas to light the main building of the Soho Foundry and in 1802 lit the outside in a public display of gas lighting, the lights astonishing the local population.
Plus the invention of electroplating, steel wire, etc etc ad nauseam!
(But unfortunately in the real world it's about as much as I can do to organise my own breakfast let alone any sort of summit.)
Nice photo! Maybe I can drive over from Atlanta some time.
Hopefully we can build the opposite of a canal for you to drive over on. I don't forsee any problems of scaleability.