the duchy of hetkettle trophish

a regional problem needs a regional solution. while iraq is prevented from rejoining humanity and iran bares teeth under pressure, people everywhere get suggested and realized violence instead of a world-round strategy for a livable future.

hello? yes? that’s right: “we can’t burn the oil.” thank you for calling.

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treehugger’s water cycle basics has t’riffic visuals.

ps. that need desperately to be sharpened for reading. hang on.

pps. another treehugger says ausra says storing hot water beats batteries et al for beating intermittency and they’ve got the flash animation to prove it.

i gotta say, with all the water used for cooling heated water in thermo plants, it does not surprise me that storing said heat could be mass-scale cheap.

gah! right in front of me! so… close.…

ppps. keep what you work to make, right? you make heat, use it. you make microchips, use them.

pppps. very pleased to have found the sabda bit that pointed to recycling heat from factories and power plants. how was it lost? it was a little on the heady side — and — i’m glad about that, too.

What is a less-than-wealthy person who must drive to work or pay for home heating oil to do?

None of the proposals, such as an excess profits tax or a retraction of tax incentives, will directly benefit the public or make up for the overrides paid for oil products in the last several years.…

Part of the problem is that the United States has no comprehensive energy policy or oversight.

no no, we do! it’s just toxic moldy.

For example, the war in Iraq for the last five years has placed a great demand on the availability of oil products — both because of their use for military purposes and the lack of the predicted production of Iraqi oil.

Neither of these down sides have been quantified or publicized. Both are important contributors to the high cost of oil energy.

well, i did the first one, roughly, and it doesn’t look like much. mostly i’d say the war protected and encouraged domestic oblivion obliviousness.

Given the political implications and the strength of the oil industry’s influence, the chances of regulating it are presently nonexistent.

that’s funny, i was just thinking nobody reads the fucking science section of the newspaper the same thing.

However, the inordinate profits in the past several years, regardless of the explanations, cry out for demanding that oil be treated as a public utility. It is an indispensable commodity, and the opportunity for abuse at the public’s expense is undeniable.

indispensable’s a desperate cry for euthanasia funny word, isn’t it?

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ps. i can’t even count the subtexts. boo-yah!

pps. once again, thoroughly respectable alternatives are available online.

it’s an old story. in parts. one two three and maybe four?

mar 25. comments here.

it’s all clerical. otherwise i’d'to put them all in one unending circular post that fed back and cascaded failure across the net — i think we none of us want that, right. good. anyhow i’m tired of it, ready to, uh, heh heh, ready to.…