Digital Times Early Morning News Hot off the internet: Our Star reporter Rachel Keller, brings us new and interesting news bytes. CRACKING KRAKATOA another breakthrough for the Green Gaia Energy Corporation. Brama Satturi spokesperson for Gaia announced this morning that a 100 terawatt geothermal plant has now come on line on the Isle of Krakatau the site of the largest volcanic explosion in recorded history. With this announcement Oil stocks took another sharp hit on the World Wide Stock Exchange plummeting to less than $0.75 a barrel. Green Gaia in response to the huge layoffs in the oil industry has offered training and job placement to any oil related jobless. This news seems to have quieted the picketers and stopped the embargoes against GGE power. Will this begin solve the problems left over from overuse of petrochemicals?
Guess we’ll be hearing more about that in the future. G’day Mates.
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Oh,Bugger!
I just lost a squillion dollars on my oil shares. Will GGE of Crack A Toe Ah compensate me? Is Rachel Keller related to Brenda Starr?
A terawatt is an awful lot of energy. Does this volcano have a big enough head of steam?
Worried from Wauwatosa,
Joanne
Green Is In
Green is the wave of the future. It's not just a fad. This story proves it. :p
Yeah, I know it's fiction, but it's good, hopeful fiction and I'm sitting in that world now, wearing a turquoise string bikini and sipping hot chocolate. Ahhhhhh.
Thanks!
- Terry
Green Is In
Terry,
Mines orange with a tropical print but I'm not letting you see the pic :P I want some Hot chocolate waaaaaa!
Nothing in Life is Free; if the cost is not monetary it will be physical, emotional, or spiritual.
Rachel Anne
Nothing in Life is Free; if the cost is not monetary it will be physical, emotional, or spiritual.
Rachel Anne
Second Thoughts
Oil at $0.75 a barrel would really put a crimp in the influence of several Middle East countries. Iran might have to develop nuclear power (gasp). It would also bring starvation to some of those countries where the governments have been siphoning off the oil profits. If this happened overnight the consequences would be incalculable,
Joanne
Second Thoughts
Joanne,
Unfortunately this is the world we live in and it does not even take something as drastic as the bottom dropping out of the price of oil. War, starvation, genocide, these things are all too common in our world. My life has been pure hell but some would take it over theirs. The great pity is I doubt I have ever met anyone that could truly say they were happy.
Nothing in Life is Free; if the cost is not monetary it will be physical, emotional, or spiritual.
Rachel Anne
Nothing in Life is Free; if the cost is not monetary it will be physical, emotional, or spiritual.
Rachel Anne
Hi, Rachel Anne
Your digital world is very interesting. I guess we will need mucho electric power to keep all the servers and backups all running nice and happy.
I wonder what the worlds peak power is now, or at it's max, like if that were last year. I guess I make that excluding muscle power. Just looking really quickly at some sats, I'd guess world peak electric power is under or around 10 terawatts. I don't know what the power is in all the fossil fuels, burning wood and all the other renewables.
I suggest that Gaia Green Energy Corp should make smaller power plants to use geothermal resources all over the world, rather than 50 square meter cross section superconducting cables going to Asia then to Europe, Africa and the Americas. The cost of the transmission system routing all that electricity to the rest of the world seems like it would dwarf the cost of the generation plant by orders of magnitude.
Assuming there is no catastrophic inflation or deflation, the value of the oil seems off. I guess it depends on what fraction of the world population is digitized. If there were still billions of bio-people they might pay more for oil to make plastics, carbon fiber, and a myriad of chemicals (many of which should be banned or only used where they can't contact the biosphere).
Still, I love your digitized world a lot. Have you figured out how many bytes a digitized person uses? Would poor people have to settle for a very severe compression algorithm so they don't take up much storage?
Big Hugs and Happy Summer Down Under!
Renee
Hugs and Bright Blessings,
Renee