Friday, May 16, 2008
Fibre link 'could insure against post-oil isolation'
Here's the angle on my NZ talk that Stuff.co.nz picked up . . .
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Whole article here.
Fibre link 'could insure against post-oil isolation'
By JON HOYLE - The Dominion Post | Tuesday, 13 May 2008
A high-speed fibre-optic network connected to the rest of the world would partly insure New Zealand against the isolation it will face after the final oil shock.
Technology analyst, author and former AT&T executive David Isenberg says New Zealand needs to forget about tinkering with Telecom's relatively low-speed copper network and build a high-speed open-access fibre network, one not controlled by telecomms firms.
At the Tuanz Telecommunications Day conference in Wellington last week he had words of warning about telecommunications companies.
Where networks were owned by the companies and not open to all service providers, the common message from companies was that bandwidth was scarce and consumers had to pay high prices.
This message was a myth, he said. Current affordable technology meant capacity was not scarce.
Holding up a length of fibre-optic cable, he said if the world's 6.5 billion people picked up a phone simultaneously, all of the conversations would take up only 88 per cent of the cable's capacity.
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Whole article here.
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Comments:
lol i don't think there will be such a thing as a "final oil shock". by now many form of exploiting formerly unprofitable oil resources have been discovered and by the time all the oil in the world runs out there will be tons of substitute substances and technologies.
Necktraction oversimplifies the problem of peak oil. Of course there won't be a "final oil shock" -- nobody but the simplest ijits are saying that.
Nobody who has considered the problem denies that new formerly unprofitable methods will be used. Necktraction fails to get that these methods are more difficult to use, so the RATE OF OIL PRODUCTION will go down, even as demand grows ever more robust. It's the RATE OF OIL PRODUCTION, stupid.
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Nobody who has considered the problem denies that new formerly unprofitable methods will be used. Necktraction fails to get that these methods are more difficult to use, so the RATE OF OIL PRODUCTION will go down, even as demand grows ever more robust. It's the RATE OF OIL PRODUCTION, stupid.
