After the bad experience with the Deepwater Horizon oil rig it is about time to come to the rescue of Off Shore Oil Rigs in general. The technology of the rigs have a high potential in the fight against the Climate Change. The reader might ask, how’s that? If the public hears about off shore oil rigs it is negative news. Mostly an environmental catastrophe like the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The avid reader might ask now, what...

As already Bob Dylan sang in 1963 “The Times They Are a-Changin‘!” Ever since the times were changing and are still changing like a wheel, which gathers speed. We are living in times that change more often and in shorter time then in all of human history before. Once Knowledge doubled every couple of thousand years, then the Knowledge Doubling Curve increased. It is said, that until the 19. century knowledge doubled every...

On April 20, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers. It took BP  a long time in which it has not succeeded to stop the oil gush from 1.5 kilometers below sea level. As the avid reader will note, in the link above, the spill of the oil is mentioned on a daily basis. Finally on July 15. 2010 BP succeeded  to stop the leak. Those were 81 days in which the oil gushed out unchecked and nature took a hard beating. Not...

It is summer again, at least in the northern hemisphere, and it is hot, very hot indeed. In the southern part of France, a couple of weeks ago, a devastating flood occurred. 19 people died. Now floods are always happening and in some parts of the world it is totally normal for floods to happen during the summer, but not in southern France with it’s Mediterranean climate. In the south of France it should be quiet dry in the summer. It...

Modern society is by its very nature energy intensive. The hunger and need for energy is also by its very nature not to be stilled and is steadily rising. The need for energy that, is rising with the modernization of society, is to be multiplied by the growing world population. With the technology of today it is impossible to grant every citizen of this world with an an equal amount of energy. Technically it is perhaps impossible, but with...

Dolphins, Whales and Bats are mammals and have a hard time surviving in nature. And it is becoming harder and harder for them! Be it the oil spills in the oceans for the maritime mammals or be it that bats are inhabiting old buildings which are getting modernized. Thus the bats are losing their habitat. The impression is, that this animals are favored because they are mammals. Some other animals which have caught the attention of people are...