Where is balance Academic priorities 288

We need this to happen, because they are the ones that need to deliver the goods in the next two phases in this advance.

Venture capitalists are agnonizing at never finding the "microsofts", and at the same time they are totally, utterly blind to technological broadsides we see coming.

You don't need a large forest to be able to supply a family with wood. Around 10-12 acres will do, given the right choice of trees and a good supply of water. This is a forest that mainly tends itself; around a hundreth as intensive on labour as farmland. Remember to return the ashes of the burnt wood though.

This can take care of heating needs. For the stuff where you really need electricity you can go the way I do. People sail around the world with a consumption of around 50W per person in electricity, and do so confortably.

At $100 we will see the large changes come. My hope is that we will see a few years of stable prices $50-55 after this hike, and then a yearly climb of $3-5 per year. That way we will reach $70 in 2010-2013, and $100 in 2016-2022. Any faster, and we will just stall the economy. Remember, alternative sources will be supply-limited for another decade or so; and perhaps longer.

If you insist you CAN

If you build in the refridgerator; and make the opening in the top, isolate it really good (30 cm thick walls), and give the compressor somewhere cold to dump heat; like in the ground; you can go down to amazingly low energy consumption for refridgeration. 15W is a target for boaters; mostly not attained; but most get below 20W. Multiply by 2 for a freezer.

Many people go through life and see symbols they ignore as "too difficult". It can be quotes in other languages, math, physics etc. The difficult part is getting through to them that they ARE missing something important.

Perhaps I should think of this. The .priv.no domain for private persons is scheduled for demolition on November 1st, and all takers have gotten similarly good .name domains. I need something this one people understand what to subsbreastute; and there are no risk of mis-sending mail anywhere, as numbers do not take part in top level domains.

clothes and subsbreastute names before e-mailing" in signature should be a good alternative. Until someone takes "lastname.name" and get all my spam. Perhaps I can take that as well, and use as a "spam-trap".

I already have a number of those; addresses that will merely put the sender, and with repeated occurrences, the whole sender's domain, on a blocked list.

-- mrr