Month April 2007

Investment banker on peak oil

Matthew Simmons, major investment banker to the oil business for decades, on peak oil and the need for alt energy. “Many alternative energy sources are energy intensive,” he said. “Corn-based energy is a scam; it’s very energy-intensive.” Simmons also pointed…

Do Iraqis have any say in this?

Two senators, one Republican, one Democrat, have proposed a plan to divide Iraq into three parts, no doubt still controlled by the United States. Except, the plan is a hallucination and can’t work. The US is not in control there…

Wave power: Archimedes Wave Swing

The AWS wave energy converter is a cylinder shaped buoy, moored to the seabed. Passing waves move an air-filled upper casing against a lower fixed cylinder, with up and down movement converted into electricity. The concept has been proven at…

The Stooges new CD

Iggy Pop has reunited with the Asheton Brothers, and they brought in Mike Watt on bass for this, the first new Stooges album in decades. For those of you who know who the Stooges and Mike Watt are, nothing else…