The Seven Generations Technosanity Podcast

Technosanity #21: Electric bicycle conversion kits

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:32:05 -0500

I own an Electra Townie 21 bicycle on which is mounted a Wilderness Energy hub motor. The motor is rated for 36 volts maximum of 35 amps and with this setup the maximum speed achieved was 18-20 miles/hr and the maximum range could be 30 miles or more per charge. With this bicycle my normal commute can be achieved using 0.3 kilowatt-hours of electricity and a 45 minute travel each way.

Technosanity #21: Electric bicycle conversion kits

Technosanity #20: World Energy Outlook 2008

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:01:05 -0500

The World Energy Outlook is a yearly publication from the International Energy Agency giving the official projection of the future energy outlook. They just released the 2008 report and there are a couple slide decks available giving some hints of what is contained in the report. WEO 2008 Presentation at COP 14 Side Event

Technosanity #20: World Energy Outlook 2008

Technosanity #19: Knives into Butter

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:32:25 -0500

Each action, each deed, is like falling knives striking melted butter. Each action divides the present into the future and past, forever rendering the possible from the achieved. Each action seems to cut away possibilities, yet there are always infinite possibilities. Each action divides the present yet the present always exists immutable. The universe is built on a foundation so strong it can take the continuing rain of an infinite number of knives and survive. How can this be?

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davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Mon, 3 Nov 2008 23:15:15 -0500

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Technosanity #18: Matt Simmons discussing oil supply disruptions

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Sun, 2 Nov 2008 15:43:04 -0500

Matt Simmons is Chairman of Simmons & Company International, a specialized energy investment banking firm. Mr. Simmons' recently published book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy has been listed on the Wall Street Journal's best-seller list. He has also published numerous energy papers for industry journals and is a frequent speaker at government forums, energy symposiums and in board rooms of many leading energy companies around the world. Mr.

Technosanity #18: Matt Simmons discussing oil supply disruptions

Technosanity #17: QA session with Ken Verosub, Jeremy Gilbert

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Sat, 1 Nov 2008 01:22:45 -0400

Q&A session with Ken Verosub and Jeremy Gilbert immediately following the presentations they gave and which were broadcast in immediately prior Technosanity Podcast episodes.

Technosanity #17: QA session with Ken Verosub, Jeremy Gilbert

Technosanity #16: Peak Oil Global Overview, An American Wake Up Call

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:46:39 -0400

A presentation at ASPO-USA 2008 by Mr. Jeremy J Gilbert, Managing Director, Barrelmore Ltd Jeremy Gilbert. Jeremy is the recently retired Chief Petroleum Engineer from British Petroleum (BP) where he was responsible for the company's worldwide petroleum engineering performance and associated research and development program. He joined BP in 1964.

Technosanity #16: Peak Oil Global Overview, An American Wake Up Call

Technosanity #15: Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine presentation in Santa Cruz

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:24:59 -0400

This is a presentation given by Naomi Klein equating the financial meltdown of August/September/October 2008 with her general thesis of the Shock Doctrine of Disaster Capitalism. This thesis cuts to the heart of the reshaping of whole societies, using disasters as a means to justify enacting societal changes which would normally be untenable but under the influence of some kind of disaster societies are more agreeable to suggestions they would not normally accept. This idea is not new, other writers have discussed the same pattern.

Technosanity #15: Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine presentation in Santa Cruz

Technosanity #14: Petroleum & Peak Oil 101

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:04:50 -0400

Petroleum 101 Mr. Ken Verosub, Geology Professor, University of California, Davis http://www.aspo-usa.com/aspousa4/ConfirmedSpeakers.cfm?bid=522 slides: http://www.aspo-usa.org/aspousa4/proceedings/Verosub_Ken_Petro_101_ASPOUSA2008.pdf Specialist in paleomagnetism of sediments, the history of the geomagnetic field. He presents an introductory lecture in Petroleum Geology giving an overview of how geology & biology came together to create the gift of oil.

Technosanity #14: Petroleum & Peak Oil 101

Technosanity #13: Peter Wells at ASPO-USA 2008

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:57:27 -0400

Peter Wells.. Neftex Petroleum Consultants, Ltd bio: http://www.aspo-usa.org/aspousa4/ConfirmedSpeakers.cfm?bid=510 slides: http://www.aspo-usa.org/aspousa4/proceedings/Wells_Peter_OPEC_ASPOUSA2008.pdf Oil geologist and other work in the oil industry in the Middle East, former Soviet Union, West Aftrica, etc. Currently working as a consultant with one contract being Toyota. Toyota had studied and internalized Peak Oil long ago, and 6 yrs later developed the Prius.

Technosanity #13: Peter Wells at ASPO-USA 2008

Technosanity #12: Peak Oil and the Media (from Radio Ecoshock)

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:07:06 -0400

Republished from http://www.ecoshock.org/2008/08/peak-oil-and-media.html -- a panel discussion about Peak Oil and its coverage in the Media. What we can do. Vancouverpeakoil.org presents a panel of 5 journalists: Rex Weyler, Barbara Jaffe, Charlie Smith, Sara Robinson and Alex Smith. How to organize, use media, bypass the mainstream.

Technosanity #12: Peak Oil and the Media (from Radio Ecoshock)

TechnoSanity #11: Normalthink, the way "everybody" behaves

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:48:01 -0400

I'm attending the yearly gathering of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and my method of traveling to the conference gave me a word to ponder. Normalthink is the accepted normal pattern of behavior that "everybody" follows without really thinking.

Normalthink, the way "everybody" behaves

Technosanity #10: Monoculture ramble

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:55:20 -0400

[i][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoculture]Monoculture is the practice of producing or growing one single crop over a wide area. The term is also applied in several fields....The dependence on monoculture crops can lead to large scale failures when the single genetic variant or cultivar becomes susceptible to a pathogen or when a change in weather patterns occur. The Great Irish Famine (1845-1849) was caused by susceptibility of the potato to Phytophthora infestans. The wine industry in Europe was devastated by susceptibility to Phylloxera during the late 19th century.

Technosanity #10: Monoculture ramble

Technosanity #9: 36th Annual Silicon Valley EV Rally

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Sun, 7 Sep 2008 01:40:10 -0400

The Silicon Valley EAA Chapter has done a yearly rally for, now, 36 years and I have been attending for 10 years or so. Back the major car companies showed up, the most impressive being GM's presence with the EV1. They'd arrive with one or two tractor trailer trucks with 4 EV1's and make them available for test rides. I got to test drive the EV1 a couple times due to this, and other car companies showed up back then as well. Needless to say, since GM axe murdered the EV1, that the major car companies did not show up today.

Technosanity #9: 36th Annual Silicon Valley EV Rally

Technosanity #8: Growing popularity of high miles/gallon motorcycles

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:12:24 -0400

Parking cars, climbing on scooters You may have noticed more scooters or motorcycles on the road this summer. They are small, usually very fuel efficient and cheaper to operate than a car. Many customers say they are giving scooters or motorbikes a try because of the great fuel mileage they get. Electric scooters designed for commuters

Technosanity #8: Growing popularity of high miles/gallon motorcycles

Technosanity #7: Solfest 2008

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:32:53 -0400

I recorded this a couple weeks ago during the Solfest. Solfest is a yearly gathering sponsored by Real Goods and the Solar Living Institute, it focuses on solar energy, off the grid living, appropriate technology, and much more. This was my first time attending the Solfest and I had a great time. The episode is pretty long but it covers a lot of things.

Technosanity #7: Solfest 2008

Technosanity #6: Hazards of U.S. nuclear power plants, part 2 (ifyoulovethisplanet.org)

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:53:11 -0400

Rebroadcast from ifyoulovethisplanet.org:- Paul Gunter, director of the Reactor Oversight Project at Beyond Nuclear and former director of the Reactor Watchdog Project at Nuclear Information and Resource Service, illuminates the operation, disrepair and vulnerability of U.S. nuclear power plants. This episode also includes an excerpt from the 1983 Oscar-winning documentary, If You Love This Planet, which features Dr.

Hazards of U.S. nuclear power plants, part 2

Technosanity #5: Hazards of U.S. nuclear power plants, part 1 (ifyoulovethisplanet.org)

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:42:31 -0400

Rebroadcast from ifyoulovethisplanet.org:- David Lochbaum, Director of the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists, about the public health dangers of the 104 aging nuclear power plants in the United States. Hear about near-melt-downs, how terrorists could easily crash planes into the planes or sabotage them from the inside, and how the Nuclear Regulatory Commission fails to ensure community safety. Also includes a short excerpt of a lecture by Dr.

Hazards of U.S. nuclear power plants, part 1

Technosanity #4: Review: A Crude Awakening

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:34:19 -0400

This is a very deeply interesting documentary about oil, oil supplies, the peak oil phenomenon, and the coming looming disasters which await us. The documentary is not "balanced" in that they gave no voice to the other points of view, but I suppose they think those other points of view are so far out of truth to not be worth addressing. It starts with some assertions of truth: Oil is the Blood of the Dinosaurs, Oil is the Bloodstream of the Global Economy, Oil is the Blood of the Earth

Technosanity #4: Review: A Crude Awakening

Technosanity #3: Peak Oil

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:52:37 -0400

Today I want to talk about the Peak Oil situation and do an overview of some of the current news related to this. Let's start with a quick primer on what this is. Adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil http://www.7gen.com/website/peak-oil/23988-peak-oil

Technosanity #3: Peak Oil

"America is addicted to oil" - Looking back at the State of the Union, 2006 - MP3

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:01:19 -0400

NOTE: This is a repost of the previous episode, encoded in MP3.

"America is addicted to oil" - Looking back at the State of the Union, 2006

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:23:18 -0400

Given todays crisis with the rising prices for oil and the rising prices for food, I thought it would be interesting to look back at George W. Bush's statement "America is addicted to Oil". As astonishing as it was for GW to be so honest as to admit the national addiction, as I reread the State of the Union speech this statement was embedded among some interesting promises related to freeing the U.S. from dependence on oil.

"America is addicted to oil" - Looking back at the State of the Union, 2006

Technosanity #1: News for April 4, 2008

davidh@7gen.com (David Herron) — Fri, 4 Apr 2008 22:57:07 -0400

The payoff for plug-in hybrids: 95 years? http://www.google.org/recharge/ http://www.7gen.com/article-summary/plugin-hybrid-electric/23973-payoff-plugin-hybrids-95-years

Technosanity #1: News for April 4, 2008