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Archive for “Peak Oil” category
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14 Mar 2006
So, over the last few days I have offered five possible things that can be done with soon-to-be-redundant oil barrels, I’d be fascinated to hear yours. What do you use them for? How have you seen other people using them? People use them for all sorts of things, and of course I have only scratched the surface. The artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude made a huge art installation called “The Wall” that consisted of 13,000 oil barrels formed into a huge wall. I’m sure there are other far more practical and less ridiculous uses to which they can be put, so do let us know, from the sublime to the ridiculous, anything goes….
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9 Mar 2006
An energy descent culture will need to entertain itself of an evening, as plasma screen televisions, home cinema units, indeed most electricity based entertainment will be out. We will need to rediscover the art of making music rather than consuming it through electronic media. Oil drums will come in very handy, we can make them into steel drums. Steel drum music originated in Trinidad, and is now a world wide phenomenon. It has evolved into doing some very innovative modern interesting stuff too. On DJ Shadow’s Diminishing Returns CD (hard to get, but usually available on EBay) he has a version of Gary Numan’s ‘Cars’ played by a steel band, which is rather wonderful.
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8 Mar 2006
Comfrey is the superhero of plants. It is truly wonderful, so multifunctional as to almost be outrageous. Comfrey is what is known as a dynamic accumulator, that is it is incredibly good at mining nutrients from deep in the soil and bringing them to the surface. The combination of comfrey and oil drum can be a win/win for any gardener.
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6 Mar 2006
*This article on Energy Descent Planning and the Kinsale experience has appeared in various places now, but Permaculture Activist recently, in its Peak Oil edition, published this expanded and updated version. Several people have emailed and asked where they can get a copy of it, so here it is, by popular demand (I always wanted to be able to say that…). It was edited by PC Activist editor Scott Horton into US-speak, with ‘gosh’ and ‘crikey’ removed and replaced with ‘gotten’ and ‘eggplant’. Go tell your friends…*
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3 Mar 2006
Over at **The Oil Drum**, Stuart Staniford has written a piece called Why The Peak is Probably About Now which you really ought to read. The Oil Drum is an amazing site, number crunching computer modelling academics (most of them using pseudonyms as they still work in Universities) sift through all the peak oil data and attempt to make some sense of it all. At least half of it goes completely over my head. In this article, however, he sets out the key arguments which for him are the key indicators that we are at or near the peak. This whole peak oil thing seems to have developed a horrible momentum, an inevitability about it which I guess I always knew it would, but now I can actually *feel* it rather than just intellectually *knowing* about it. It brought to mind the time
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So, over the last few days I have offered five possible things that can be done with soon-to-be-redundant oil barrels, I’d be fascinated to hear yours. What do you use them for? How have you seen other people using them? People use them for all sorts of things, and of course I have only scratched the surface. The artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude made a huge art installation called “The Wall” that consisted of 13,000 oil barrels formed into a huge wall. I’m sure there are other far more practical and less ridiculous uses to which they can be put, so do let us know, from the sublime to the ridiculous, anything goes….
