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Last month the media highlighted the unrest in tibet which many are injured during a clash between the natives and Han chinese.Over 600 were hurt and 18 killed during the unrest.This movement however stain the progress of the Olympics in Beijing given the negative publicity.

The Dalai Lamai refuted claims of any involvement in the unrest citing resignation if unrest continues .Freeing Tibet has been a thorny issue for the PRC during the last decades though the tibetans themselves still live day to day given the buddhist fataslistic outlook in life.

Tibet is more of a strategic area for the PRC government , it also holds promise of 100 million of tonnes of oil which could help in the resurgency of her economy.In a way Tibet needs PRC to prop up her economy too in many ways other than tourism.

BP and Royal shell took stakes in the PRC oil companies to explore the tibetan region much to the dismay of the  environmentalists.Projects worth 3billion USD are being built from the city of Qinghai,Golmud to lhasa.The ambitous project to link tibet with the outside world and oil extraction will be the controvesy for many years in and out of the PRC.

To free  tibet is to  on the nerves not only for the tibetans but the countries involved in the energy supply of the dragon.

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“The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.”

GK chesterton

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Coming to the end of march 2008, I’ve got to say that our world is losing her common sense not only in dealing with our energy problems but also safeguarding the environment.Man should be good custodians to the environment and animals on the planet but sometimes people can just go too far.

It has become a cult of the masses coming from the prophets of ecological doom spearheaded by many interest groups whose agendas may be less upfront than we think.Reduction of carbon footprint has come to the point of being ludicrous, the world can never get rid of all the carbon footprints , there’s even a woman who aborted her baby to support the movement of carbon reduction.

In short, there must be scientific moderated objective truth and sincere efforts to help the environment,not media propagandas trying to herd the public into a wave of hysteria that’s based on unsound principles. Plants and animals are important to earth but it must not be done on the expense of human lives.

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It seems that the petro led modern world have move into the churches too, not only it provides air conditioned parishes but also the way people behaved in it as I witnessed during the Easter week here in my local church.It seems materialism in guise of modernism drives the believers in all directions with jammed car park to scantilly dressed women from my Church, how long can this madness last?Can’t one find any peace even in Churches nowaday?

Biofuel seems to be a step in relieving the dependence on fossil fuel found in many middle eastern states that’s suffering from instabilty  in their region.Also it helps to combat global warming from the rampant use of fossil energy from the world during past decades.But are the assumptions correct?

The thought comes from that biofuel arises from plant based rather than petro based so they are more environmentally friendly. However on a closer look, soybeans and corns used to produce these fuels are contributors to soil erosion and water pollution needing large amounts of pestcides and fertilizer to grow and harvest.

It also affect the global food production by making it less affordable to the poor driving the masses of poor to starvation if the reduction takes place in favour of biofuel propping the food prices up worldwide.And after all, the efficiency of biofuel can never replace fossil fuel as survey shows that it will take the entire corn crop of  America to replace 12% of the current petrol consumption.

Till we figure out how to deal with the food and environmental hazards caused by biofuel ,it will seem to remain as a cottage industry not rivalling her older crude oil cousin.

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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
Hilaire Belloc

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Hi guys,

Last few days with my wound stiched, I did not post any articles but after having it removed today with positive feedback from my doc that it’s not malignant, I’ll be back tomorrow …life is filled with unforseen circumstances in our carbon world

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After being back from the skin centre for the minor op to remove my skin tumour below my nose,I realised the importance of crude oil to our medical profession.The pain and anguish the patient need to go through if not for the mass production of the anesthesia injected upon the patients.

The unholy alliance between our healthcare industry and crude oil industry is not to be underestimated.It’s more than transportation of drugs and medical equipment worldwide but also the making of the above which could relieve the pain and sufferings and save lives.

Why is it unholy some of you may ask? Because this render many doctors helpless in situations where drugs and equipments are not available to help the afflicted.The whole medical profession though no fault of the modern physicians offers a narrowing of treatments not based on oil made products.The catastrophe of mankind if the structure falls will be unthinkable…

As I shruddered about the pain of the injection of anesthesia, lord knows what our forefathers went through without anesthesia.It’s really a troubling thought as I look at the stiched wound down my nose and wondered if it’s a blessing living in the modern era where medicine is closely tied up with the petrochemical industry.

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Hi guys,

Feeling moody as I’m down with a skin tumour and going to get it remove by tomorrow morning. So there will be no posting till I finish my op, sorry but I promise to be back on thursday and keep you guys updated.

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Yesterday, I catched the opening premiere of 10,000BC in my country.Sad to say the acting and the plot failed to live up the hype.It pales compared to stargate with heavy weight actors like Kurt Russell.A real pity because ficticious tale should have more credit.

One saving grace of the film is the breathtaking landscape and the mammoths graphics.Wonder why the sabre tooth does not look as vivid compared to the mammoths?With a stronger cast and better plot, this film can really pass with flying colors.Modernites always wonder how their ancestors at the end of ice age lived and hunted,we can indeed learn much from them in regards of communal tribal life as fossil age pass us.

The plot showcase about how a young hunter found his manhood through the rescue of his sweetheart and tribal folks from the hands of barbaric slave traders building pyramids for the Gods.Throughout the journey, his mentor who’s a friend of his father guided him.

I give the film 2 out of 5 stars, sad because they can do much better.

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The last few days where I stay have experienced some rainy weather, make me think of rain power.We talk about solar and wind power, why not rain?If we are to harness natural power of our environment and turn them into energy, we should not discount this source.

In a study by a physics journal shown by authors Romain Guigon, Thomas Jager, Ghislain Despesse and Jean-Jacques Chaillout, write about how it is possible to recover energy from the impact of a raindrop of water.To measure such energy, they built a rain catcher which would allow them to control the amount of water falling on top of a piezoelectric material, in this case made out of polyvinylidene fluoride. A piezoelectric material is a material that is able to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy . Their results were interesting: slow falling droplets produce more energy than high falling droplets, and as you’d expect, the larger the water droplet, the more energy that was generated.

The total amount of energy recovered was not much as 1 droplet can generate only between 1 microwatt to 12 milliwatts.It’s not going to power up anything much but the research seems promising as piezoelectric technology is still new .Remember what they once said about solar energy.

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