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Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Intro

The world is running out of oil.

This is not a theory.

This is not a "Chicken Little" run around in a panic dire prediction of the coming of the apocalypse.

This is a fact.

We're here asking "What'cha gonna do aboud id?"

The time for inaction is past.

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"Snake Oil" by "Jenny Dalton" off of "Fleur De Lily"

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We've got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID)


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Bed "Machinery" by "Might Could"

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

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Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

Thesis:

We're looking at the Fourth chapter of "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

This chapter, entitled "Non-Petroleum Energy Sources: Can The Party Continue?", delves into the sources of alternate energy and alternate chemical feed stocks which could/sould/would replace oil.

"Cod Liver Oil" by "Great Big Sea" off of "The Hard And The Easy"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Synthesis:

This fourth chapter, entitled "Non-Petroleum Energy Sources: Can The Party Continue?",
explodes the myths that the world as we have known it is coming to an end, as much it explodes the the myth that the world can continue without going through a lot of change.

While geo-political reality can continue, there are going to have to be some changes made and some accommodations reached.

That's the part f this that seems to be so difficult to get Americans to understand.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad ] may be a lousy communicator, easily outraged and easily outrageous, but Iran, (meaning the rest of the power structure, made up of unelected imams who can take a longer term view that the four or eight years we have here in the West,) [Iran] is not being stupid or intolerant in wanting to wean itself off of oil.

The leaders of Iran see the writing on the inside of the bottom of the oil barrel.

They want to survive peak oil and to be in some kind of shape to go forward.

Which they won't be if they are dependent on oil, bullied by some foreign power into squandering time, that most precious of resources, and get to its depletion beyond economic recoverability.

Nuclear energy may be one of the most viable long-term sources of alternate energy.

It is not perfect. It is not without its long term waste storage problems.It is not portable or even movable, and it does noting to address the other non-energy components of oil use.

But its a part of a long-term solution.

Most of the solutions come up with so far have fallen well short of even that much.

Bio fuels from corn is utter stupidity. Quite apart from the fact that human beings eat corn as do far to many of our own food sources, corn isn't even that efficient at the conversion.

There are lots of other cellulosic ethanol feed stocks that are much better that corn.

Some of the alternatives, wind, hydro, geo-thermal, nuclear and so on are discussed, along with the shortcomings of each.

While each of them falls short of the black gold standard, in combination they may accomplish enough.

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"The Secret..." by: "Lacuna Coil" off of "Lacuna Coil"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

Conclusion:

Next time we'll explore chapter Five: "A Banquet Of Consequences"

We're almost finished folks. As opposed to being wiped out.

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"Pornographer's Dream" by "Suzanne Vega" off of "Beauty & Crime (Bonus Track Version)"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

Outro

Go and get the book "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

You can even go and re-bury your head in the sand afterward.

But you should know what's going to happen and let it guide you and your decisions.

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This episode featured the following music:

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Snake Oil" by "Jenny Dalton" off of "Fleur De Lily"

Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

"Cod Liver Oil" by "Great Big Sea" off of "The Hard And The Easy"

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"The Secret..." by: "Lacuna Coil" off of "Lacuna Coil"

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

"Pornographer's Dream" by "Suzanne Vega" off of "Beauty & Crime (Bonus Track Version)"

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

"The Word" and "Emily has Compassion Fatigue" by "3 Blind Mice" off of "Good Grief" and Before They Were Famous"