Energy Efficiency

climate change, energy resources and the big picture: an Australian perspective on global issues

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Warming to Misanthropy

October 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Misanthropy: Hatred or mistrust of humankind. Man-made global warming theory [AGW] says that climate change is caused by the CO2 emissions from the use of fossil fuels. As the human population increases the inexorable need for energy from fossil fuels increases and therefore the level of AGW increases. AGW is similar to the theory of Thomas [...]

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Tags: climate change · global

Mining for Truth on Coal Supplies

September 12th, 2010 · No Comments

By Mason Inman – for National Geographic News – Published September 8, 2010 This story is part of a special series that explores energy issues; for more, visit The Great Energy Challenge. No matter how bad coal might be for the planet, the conventional wisdom is that there is so much of it underground that [...]

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Tags: coal · global

Millennium – Year 2000 – Bug by a Factor of 10?

August 9th, 2010 · No Comments

Two critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in mission-critical systems used in 500 million devices, including VoIP phones, telecom equipment, military routing devices, automobile controls and spacecraft. Last week at the Security B-Sides and DEFCON conferences in Las Vegas, HD Moore, chief security officer at Rapid7 (and founder and chief architect of Metasploit), disclosed two critical [...]

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Tags: global · technology

Why The Banks Are Still Bastards

June 21st, 2010 · No Comments

Over the years, I have written about how the finance business – AKA Banks – have controlled and manipulated debt in Australia (as in every other country around the world) to increase the opportunity of making profits; how those in the know – in politics – have aided and abetted the Banks for scraps from [...]

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Tags: banks · global · money

One Currency – Greed

May 12th, 2010 · No Comments

If you’ve ever seen a string of fire-crackers go off, you will know that the sequence of explosions depends entirely on the length of the fuse and gunpowder in the fuses as to how they go off. One thing is for sure, eventually all will have gone off; and so too does the world’s countries, as [...]

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Tags: banks · economy · global · money