Transportation

Cars Damaged Onboard in Rough Seas - Is this Design Ready for JHSV?

kauaibrad — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:30:59 -0800

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Cars Damaged Onboard in Rough Seas - Is this Design Ready for JHSV? Additions made below on 1/6/09 7:45pm:

Well, I've still got at least one more post to do on the lack of studied need being established by the PUC and Act 2: A Closed Class of One (Part 5). Will get that up soon. I've been enjoying a break from this. Also, the updated page for seeing the State Supreme Court decision when it comes out is the following: http://www.state.hi.us/jud/2009jan.htm.

Hawaii's Place in The National Intelligence Council's 2025 Global Trends Report

kauaibrad — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:09:45 -0800

Monday, January 5, 2009

Comment on Highlights of The National Intelligence Council's 2025 Report Highlight of a good report carried by Hawaii Reporter today. Below link to the report worth reading directly. My comments to Dr. Prevedouros' highlights at bottom:

From: Hawaii Reporter
"National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2025:
Highlights and Some Lessons for Hawaii" 1/5/2009
By Panos D. Prevedouros, PhD, UH

SOURCE: The National Intelligence Council's Global Trends 2025 Final Report (See: http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_2025_project.html)

Dr. Wirth Presents Good Evidence of Peak Oil 2008

kauaibrad — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:24:51 -0800

Monday, January 5, 2009

Dr. Wirth Presents Good Evidence of Peak Oil 2008 In a comment to this blog Clifford J. Wirth, Ph.D. said...

"The top story of the year is that global crude oil production peaked in 2008.

The media, governments, world leaders, and public should focus on this issue.

Global crude oil production had been rising briskly until 2004, then plateaued for four years. Because oil producers were extracting at maximum effort to profit from high oil prices, this plateau is a clear indication of Peak Oil.

Peak Oil 2006: Economy Declines as Oil Production Declines

kauaibrad — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:20:01 -0800

Monday, January 5, 2009

Peak Oil 2006: Economy Declines as Oil Production Declines 1:1 and vice-versa From: http://www.drmillslmu.com/peakoil.htm

Web-Surfing Some Big Wave Peak Oil Posts

kauaibrad — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:07:51 -0800

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Web-Surfing Some Big Wave Peak Oil Posts From: http://www.drmillslmu.com/peakoil.htm

"Should the oil markets themselves begin to 'connect these dots' then all our lives are going to be impacted violently and immediately. ...as soon as Peak Oil is recognized that for all practical purposes the situation is already upon us, then a fast and vicious "resource grab" will be initiated. The price of oil in the markets will begin to rise dramatically. This will initiate a circular hedging hoarding mentality in large end-users, governments, and multi-nationals. This will then have a myriad of devastating effects..." --Steven Lagavulin

From: http://deconsumption.typepad.com/deconsumption/2005/03/the_most_import.html
March 16, 2005
"The Most Important Thing You Don't Know About 'Peak Oil'"

Our Energy and CO2 Problem is Singularly the Automobile

kauaibrad — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:24:34 -0800

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Our Energy and CO2 Problem is Singularly the Automobile Was reading this: http://www.drmillslmu.com/peakoil.htm
And in that came across this: http://www.afstrinity.com/worldoil.htm
And the following illuminating chart:

New Year's Resolution...Follow the Bicyclist

kauaibrad — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:53:18 -0800

Friday, January 2, 2009

New Year's Resolution...Follow the Bicyclist About a decade ago I visited Kauai for the first time for me. The one key thing I remember from that visit was riding in a van through Hanalei Valley, looking out the window at a pedestrian and thinking to myself "this has got to be the one most likely place in the world, that I have been, where the more logical thing to be doing would be to be a pedestrian or bicyclist rather than being in the car that I am currently in."

That image of Kauai's Northshore stuck with me for more than a decade. Now I am here and I am still looking out the window at pedestrians and bicyclists. It's hard to change, I mean really change. Hopefully someday I will be forced to become a pedestrian or bicyclist on Kauai's Northshore.

The Crash Course...with new Last Installments

kauaibrad — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:44:42 -0800

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

The Crash Course...with new Last Installments Just watched the last two new installments. Good analysis:

You will learn about:
Intro (on this page, above)
Chapter 1: Three Beliefs (Time: 1:46)
Chapter 2: The Three "E"s (Time: 1:38)
Chapter 3: Exponential Growth UPDATED! - November 3 (Time: 6:20)
Chapter 4: Compounding is the Problem (Time: 3:06)

Action Alert: Keep the Economic Stimulus Clean!

andrea — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:07:26 -0800

I just took an action to tell my representative that the economic stimulus needs to have clean transportation options, like funding for better transit and passenger rail. Right now, the stimulus is in danger of being hijacked by the road-building lobby, which wants billions of dollars for unnecessary new roads that would increase global warming pollution.

Tell others and take action now: http://action.foe.org/t/8489/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26352

Thanks!

Matt Simmons Powerpoint: Hawaii and Peak Oil

kauaibrad — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:19:36 -0800

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Matt Simmons Powerpoint:

Click on: CAN HAWAII ADJUST TO A POST-PEAK OIL WORLD?