I still say that thermal depolymerization is a great start. It's not reducing the need for oil at all, but it's not extracting it from the ground and adding more CO₂ to the surface/atmosphere. Better yet the technology is already here, it's just being held back by the U.S. regulations because for some reason they don't count it as biofuel. Therefore they don't get the biofuel subsidy and it takes longer to develop to mainstream. Still, it's a really good system at 85% efficiency.

Taylor - interesting statements. I'd just like to say that, uh, we're already depleting our natural resources... hence the whole war for oil thing... [[and it would seem as though Alberta is next in line for American imperialism if the US Treasury guy has anything to say about it. (read the journal for Saturday or Sunday) He talked about how the Oil Sands' proven oil reserves are quite possibly a key step in American energy security. in other words: we're fucked.]]

It takes more energy - and clean burning natural gas at that - and water to remove the oil from the tarsands than we actually get from it. How is that a good thing? How is that even remotely sustainable?

I say we go solar and wind-powered NOW, it's the only way we can continue to have things like cars and plastic even possible in our futures. If we continue using oil at the pace we are, we will soon run out, and we'll be stuck back in some draconian dark age with no back-up plan. If we, however, start to wean ourselves off oil and gas, it'll last longer and we'll have those things that we can't live without that come from oil and gas, like asphalt roads, and plastic containers, and surgical materials, and computers. Do we not think that maybe it would be a good idea to start while we're ahead, and move towards something new and more sustainable before our current way of life extinguishes itself?

moving forward is good, making plans to accept what has to change in the future is also good. but we have to start it now, and we have to do it en mass, or nothing's going to change. You can start using glass containers instead of tupperware, you can start wearing wool instead of fleece or nylon or lycra, but if everyone else still thinks we're fine wearing our synthetic clothes, living in our man-made wonders of houses and cars and stuff, nothing's going to change.

The G-8 finally managed to get George Bush to admit that climate change is happening NOW, but he also said he's not going to do anything about it. Can we change everyone else so that he's a minority?

uhh... excellent... a rant. Sorry folks. I guess that's because I've been working in such formerly beautiful land, that's all being destroyed by logging, oil and gas, and coal mining... all for the insatiable appetites of people like us. Hopefully I'll have some pictures soon to show you what I mean.

Black Dice: Starlite Room, October 1st.
With: wolf eyes? (I don't know for sure)
and special guests: The All-Purpose Voltage Heros (again, this is only hearsay)
and lesser special guests: !!!!????

so apparently my other site is out of bandwidth. Let's try this AGAIN.

Photos I took of the 12-hour-draw-a-thon at the Latitude 53 gallery on Friday night:





If you're interested in seeing this stuff in person (for some strange reason), the artwork will be on display at the Latitude 53 gallery for about the next 2 weeks.

oh . yeah. it's "THE ISLAND" ... the island i guess.

hahaha. whoops. i was totally looking at the wrong shit. it's like 150 k per sec. that's still pretty tight.

sup bitches, can you say 30 MBs per second?!?! WORDNESS. too bad this thing's over a gig..it's still gonna take forever.

so THAT'S what that movie is!!! I saw a split-second clip of it on the TV the other day and I was like WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!???


Gotta see it...

whoa. stella for 2.50. shit dog.

and some sweetness from freewilliamsburg.com

Alright new plan. I'll ask about bad movie night the day before, then maybe I'll get some sort of response. If not... I'll be working on Grand Arms or some other irrelevant thing. Well irrelevant to you guys, but pretty relevant to me.