Entries from September 2008 ↓

It was in elementary school that I recall learning in my science class that oil was made from dead dinosaurs.  I simply accepted it when I was seven but later I started to think, there must have been a lot of dinosaurs the way we keep sucking this stuff up from under the ground.  To be fair, vegetation too. 

Fossil fuel from dead dinosaurs (and vegetation) was something I believed until recently and now there’s news that oil replenishes itself by a mysterious process within the mantle of the earth.  If true, this may set the quest for gravity control on the back burner.  But maybe it’ll stop the panic and give rise to a whole lot of new thinking.

Non Dinosaur Oil

Rare footage on Eric Laithwaite and his fascination with gyros and magnets, inventor of the maglev train.

Eric the Heretic

One of our trackers shows we’ve just been visited by NASA.

While it seems impressive we must also factor in the possibility that it was a steno on downtime who may have been personally curious.  On the other hand, maybe it is impressive.  Stay tuned but be aware that NASA visits don’t necessarily mean we’ll be consulting to them.  Entities like the above including the CIA and military from around the world often drop by quietly and exit the same way without leaving a calling card.

Because oil was seeping out of the ground and it was cheap, yet in early years the electric car was a viable first alternative.  Here it comes again.

The Electric Car

At this writing, the price of oil has dropped to about 92US$ a barrel in Europe.  Whatever it is in America is similar but the story has been overshadowed by The Lehman Brothers and the Monday Meltdown on Wall Street.

Although oil has now dropped to below a hundred dollars a barrel, consider it as a lull, a fall back and resting point before it rises again.  Once the great shadow of a prediction passes, that ‘we’re entering a depression that looks like the Great Depression of the ’30′s’, I believe we will see oil rise again.  We’ve seen it happen repeatedly since the seventies and especially this last year or so.

If oil retains its importance as the commodity that runs the world, the only way the price of a barrel of the stuff will go is up.

Having said that, with the water car catching on, it’s likely that ultimately the price of oil will diminish.  But have you checked the price of a gallon of drinking water?

Fortunately the water car doesn’t require a drinking calibre of water and in the case of the previously announced Japanese water car, it will run quite well on Japanese tea.  Not sure about muddy or seawater.  Sludge?  Rust?  Could be the water at least needs to be clear.  But, isn’t it interesting that the water car isn’t being touted as the next best thing for mankind?  Not just a propulsive fuel but in cold countries they could have a snow energy harvest where they put the snow in a place to warm it into water, then use the water as fuel for the winter.   This is not a dream.  It can be real.

Meanwhile, the price of oil is only in a lull and will rise again.