Category: Technology
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Kuwait’s Green Future – Sunshine and Sunflowers – Article for Al Jarida 23 December 2016
How a nation built from sand and oil can move into sand and sun. This article was written for the Al Jarida newspaper and published on Saturday 23 December 2016. This article took a full page to discuss the economics of solar energy in Kuwait. It is published here on page 10: Al Jarida Article 23…
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The End of Oil? Oil Pricing for 2015 and the Rise of Solar Energy
Best Business Practices, Energy, Global Issues Affecting all of Us, Money, Solar Power, Technology, The Middle EastAn Arabic prophesy half way in the making? of a monetary glitch in the status quo? I wrote the article for the Al Jarida newspaper of Kuwait and it was published on Saturday 24 January 2015. It’s a further development of my previous blog on how technology is changing the way the energy market operates…
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Brilliant, and Ancient Technology
These walls in Peru are earthquake proof and modern tool proof. How was it done? This is the famous 12 sided stone in Hatum Rumiyoc Street, Cusco, Peru. It is 1,000’s of years old, carved with a technology long forgotten by man, and is in fact lost to modern science. We do not know how it…
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The End of Humanity? It’s all in the numbers
Fundamentally women must give birth. There is no other way. For the human population to remain steady, each woman needs to have at least two children – one to replace herself and one to replace her mate. The actual number works out to be about 2.1 – to allow for accidents and the like. In…
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Read The Manual
How decades of toil were spoilt by simply not reading the plan A handful of years ago I was asked to join Western Mining and build a major part of their new AUD 1 billion fertiliser facility in far north western Queensland. Western Mining was then led by two icons of the Australian mining industry,…
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How to get a 1 hour suntan in 5 minutes
The reality of our world remains fragile and precarious I was sitting by the pool today (as I often do), thinking about stuff (as I often do)… I was thinking about a movie called Sunshine released in 2007. An excellent Si-Fi movie set 50 years into the future when the sun is dying. (Worth a…
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The Mediocrity of Australian Politics
Do you think anything will change? Think again. Recent public movements in Australian politics reveal the truth behind the talking: National interest, getting things done, change for the good of everyone? These are not on the agenda. Personal interest, personal gain and tepid caution: these are what drives the upcoming Australian election. As pointed out…
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Food, Inc. A review of the documentary – recommended
A revelation into something we take for granted with every mouthfull. What a great documentary. Not just because of the story (eat food in the USA? Yuck), but also because of the great positive, do something message at the end. Let’s start with that message: “You can vote to change the system… three times a…
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Great People – Dean Karmen
Inspiration arrives from innovation, including innovating how to engage with people You can learn about a guy called Dean Karmen from a book called Project Ginger: about how Dean made the Segway (and other neat inventions). It’s thanks to people like Dean Karmen that we get to experience marvellous miracle technology as common place after millions…
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Antibiotics – Short Term Thinking Kills A Long Term Future
Learn about how modern medicine kills millions of people because of long term shuttered thinking Medical topics are not something I usually blog about, but I liked this one because what has happened here is exactly what has happened in so much of our – human – endeavors, and it stems from short term thinking.…
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