OPEC News

First came this:

146th (Extraordinary) Meeting of the OPEC Conference
No 14/2007
Abu Dhabi, UAE – 5 December 2007
Press release:
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The Conference passed Resolutions that will be published on 5 January 2008, after ratification by Member Countries.

And three days later this:

ISNA – Tehran
Service: Economy
TEHRAN, Dec. 08 (ISNA)-Iran has completely stopped selling oil in U.S. dollar.
The oil minister, Gholam Hussein Nozari said considering dollar depreciation and the loss of crude oil exporter countries, now dollar is not considered as a trustworthy currency any more.
Iranian authorities in the OPEC summit suggested a trustworthy currency to be determined to stop the loss of oil exporter countries, he added.
A team of oil, economy, and finance ministries of OPEC members has been organized to pursue this issue on the expert level and the results will be announced in the next meeting, he pointed.
Nozari also highlighted that the Sinopec Chinese Company has recently requested to purchase more oil from Iran and regarding fluctuating oil market such requests are usually accepted.
End Item

Coincidence?

A neoluddite(?) and perpetual motion machine(s) Part 2/2

The consequences

As stated before, anyone with high school physics background could tell you that a perpetual motion machine (PMM) is in contradiction to the first law of thermodynamics, and therefore in contradiction to reality. As for magnetism, where a lot of research in PMM (or rather: “Over unity” more than 100% efficient engine) has been done, they might be able to explain you the eight Maxwell (+ one Lorentz forze) equations that govern all electromagnetic behaviour and comply perfectly with the laws of thermodynamics. However, if they have not studied the way these equations got their shape (or were not imaginative enough to speculate the consecueces of the fact) their just might have missed the implications of the tiny little fact that these equations are about aggregate averages, and no particular case needs to follow them. It’s easy to ignore this, since the phenomenon is well beyond our everyday life and partly clouded by the quantum effects anyway.

A neoluddite(?) and perpetual motion machine(s) Part 1/2

Today I got reminded that in order to keep track of things, it’s not enough to follow the news. You need to predict the news. And to do anything remotely interesting, you need to make conclusions of the predicted news and act accordingly.

Last summer I got an ad about a deal my bank was doing with another company and based my choices of handling accounts according to that information. Today that deal was announced and covered in news. Yesterday I got a future research technology alert about a company that behaves as if they really had discovered a perpetual motion machine. Only today I realized that the important question is not if it is true, but what will follow if it is true.

Is free energy safe energy?