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2050 — The Coming
Energy Evolution

Chapter 1: Dependence and Vulnerability
YOWBOOKS.COM, 05-January-2004
A Serialized Book by Jacco van der Worp

We have as a society become almost completely dependent on our ever-increasing need for energy. When looking at the monitor while writing this you would almost take for granted that it shows the fruit of the typing, but that takes energy. The lamp that is on to read the notes on the side, lights because it gets power from a wall outlet. The cold beer before calling it a night is being cooled in the refrigerator right now that, to no surprise, runs on electrical power. The phone that rang just now, the MP3 that’s playing on the side, the radio, the TV, the microwave, all of them need electrical energy and most of them are common ground in almost every household in the Western world. Just how bad has it become? Without a continuous flow of electricity coming into our houses, our lives will come to a grinding halt; that is how ‘bad’ it has become.

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Whole lotta shakin' going on in 2004

WorldNetDaily, 02-Jan-04

As global relief efforts were still focused on the devastating 6.6 earthquake that struck Iran last week, killing more than 30,000 and leaving some 40,000 homeless, seismologists were studying a new rash of temblors striking the planet's "ring of fire."

In Indonesia, a powerful earthquake shook the tourist islands of Bali and Lombok yesterday, injuring nearly 30 people and damaging dozens of buildings. On Lombok, 22 people were injured and one elderly man died, apparently of shock as a result of the quake, which the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said measured 6.1 on the Richter scale. The undersea quake struck shortly before dawn in the Straits of Lombok.

USGS: Don't Tremble, Quaking Normal

Reuters, 02-Jan-004

WASHINGTON -- The earthquake that killed more than 50,000 people in Iran was part of a normal pattern that included quakes in California, New Caledonia, Panama, Mexico and Indonesia in the last two weeks, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Friday.

"We are in the norm of earthquake activity," seismologist Jim Devine said in a telephone interview from the U.S. agency that monitors earthquakes. "We would need several more large earthquakes before we start considering something unusual."

Asked whether any of these quakes were related, Devine replied, "The short answer is, no they're not. The long answer is, of course the entire Earth is always in some state of energy release. There are periods when there is more energy release than other times."

The Earth is made up of almost a dozen plates that can collide and release energy, that energy release is what creates the earthquake, Devine said. But he stressed that a quake on one side of the Earth does not trigger one on the other side.

"Ninety-five percent of the time they appear to be quite random," Devine said. "I haven't seen anything in this current pattern that would indicate that it's out of the ordinary."