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This blog site initially focused on renewable energy and the environment. But that was SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth. My next book, SS for Humanity, opened the subject area to everything else, including SETI, the afterlife, travel and cuisine. However, I still provide, now and then, SIMPLE SOLUTIONS.
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RADIO GARDEN is a fascinating link. You might need to activate the page, by clicking on it. Then click on any green dot to hear a radio from that location. In that lower-left box, click on EXPLORE or SEARCH to open up a whole new world of choices. Find San Francisco, for example, and you can click your way to 89 different stations from that area, or New York City for 202 stations. There is a feature where you click on the heart symbol to save that station and form your own list of favorites. There is a London station (under Weird Stations, find Birdsong Radio) that only plays a bird singing, or one from Switzerland (also under Weird Stations for Ambi Nature Radio) that plays ambient nature to put you to sleep. You'll bookmark this page and play with it for the rest of your life.
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For the longest time, the day when the most visitors (3,356) clicked on this blog site was 27February2010 on THE CHILE EARTHQUAKE. Why? Probably because this posting was linked to my Huffington Post article of that day reporting on HAWAII TSUNAMI. Natural disasters tend to increase readership. However, on 6March2017 THE WONDERS OF ALCOHOL drew 6498. Further, too, on 6June2017, the one-month tally of visitors was 70,219, or 2340/day. However, on 18December2018 a record 27,775 people read that posting. On 22April2019, after 13,000 and 19,000 pings the previous days, a second all-time high of 27,318 was reached. The daily average has been about 500/day.
THE WONDER OF QATAR 22,565 COUNTRY #15: BARBADOS 18,836 THE BEST PLACES IN THE WORLD (Part 25: Jewels of the American East) 14,091 WHERE ARE THE OSAKA WHALE SHARKS??? 9428 THE FUTURE OF GEOTHERMAL ENERGY 9332 ABOUT THAT GIANT FILIPINO CROCODILE 8532 INDIA SUCKS…* 8508 FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL AND END OF THE COLD WAR 7868 CAN THE WHALE SHARK REPLACE CATTLE? 7737 SNAKES IN HAWAII 7394 CAN YOU GET VIVID DREAMS WITH GARCINIA CAMBODIA? 7298 THE MAGIC OF TRUFFLES 6542 RECENT HUFFPOS 6375 HONOHONO AND CATTLEYA ORCHIDS 6310 SUNDAY BONBONS 6084 COUNTRY #13: BAHRAIN 6071 THE MASAI 5983 SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR JAPAN 5573 SIMPLE SOLUTION ESSAYS: The Venus Syndrome (Part 1) 4737 WHAT SPARKED THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION? 3895 THE 60'S: GIRL GROOVES 5225
Interesting to note that not one of the top 20 postings reports on natural disasters (not sure what those numbers stand for, but they indicate a kind of relativity), the newest of this list goes back five years, and the highest rated this year is just over 300. Clearly, people are reading my older postings, but there is no sense to which subject areas are popular.
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WE MUST TAKE ACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING NOW!
2024 surpassed 2023 as the highest global temperature on record. Global sea level also rose to a new high, 4 inches higher than in 1993, when record-keeping began. Tropical cyclones were 25% higher than the average. The Arctic is melting, severely.
There has of course been an active disinformation effort to discredit climate change, partially funded by fossil fuel companies and some conservative groups. If you click on the following, you can access a layman's guide to the global warming debate or a science controversy guide. For balance, read a skeptic's guide and the wisdom (?) of Senator Inhofe. You might also find interest in how to talk to a climate skeptic.
The bottom line is that we just can't take a chance, for even if our climate stabilizes, the worst that could happen with a carbon tax is our economy being temporarily discombobulated. If we don't take action with a 5 cent/pound carbon dioxide tax (or something similar), we could well face total economic, political and life collapse!
WHAT IS THE PRICE OF OIL?
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CALCULATE THE CURRENT VALUE OF MONEY
Measuring Worth - Relative Value of US Dollars
....One ballpark estimate of what it cost the U.S. for World War II was $288 billion (in 1940 dollars). If you had inserted 1940 / 288 / 2016 into those boxes, the equivalent value today would be $4,870 billion, or close to $5 trillion.
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX AND THE INFLATION RATE
The CPI is based on 1984 at 100. Thus, 241 means a 241% inflation since 1984.
There are various ways to look at this, but one is to subtract 100 from 241, getting 141, so the effective inflation today, nearly a third of a century later, is 141% higher. Another comparison is that the CPI in 1916 was 10.9, and is at 240.853 today, a hundred years later. Thus, the average commodity that sold for a buck then, today goes for $22.
WHAT WILL BE THE FUTURE PRICE OF OIL?
Click on:
FUTURE PRICE OF OIL
to gain a sense of what the financial community thinks will be the future price of crude oil. When I last viewed this Chicago Board of Trade (a NYMEX company) future contracts page on 110March2014, the futures price of oil in December 2022 was $78.59. This makes no sense to me.
I more recently (10July2019) checked the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where they quoted the price of petroleum for February 2030: $55.33. Note the price/barrel above for today.
ALL TIME NUMBERS
HIGH
NYMEX Petroleum: $147 (12July2008)
Brent Spot Crude: $147 (12July2008)
LOW (2011 dollars)
Petroleum: $16.44/barrel (1998)
(note: just before the first Energy Crisis
in 1973 it was $3.60/bbl, or $21.44/bbl
in 2011 dollars)
Dropped to minus $40/barrel on 20April2020, ending day at minus $37.63/bbl.
Peak price of Gold: on 30March2025 of $3,114/oz
30-year mortgage rate:
--lowest 2.65% (7Jan2021)
--highest 18.5% (1981)
Dow Jones Industrial Average All-Time High: 45,632(4December2024)
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ABOUT ME
- WHERE ARE WE? WHERE WILL WE GO?
- Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
- I am Director Emeritus of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii and co-founder of the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research. I have published three SIMPLE SOLUTION books and have written more than 100 articles for the HUFFINGTON POST. I am working with an enlightened team to pioneer the BLUE REVOLUTION (http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/), beginning with the development of the Pacific International Ocean Station.
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