November 8, 2006
Robin's Notes: Hard Questions

Categories of Solutions:

1. Solutions that are only small piece of puzzle
2. Solutions that require much time to make happen
3. Solutions with serious tradeoffs

Issues that might come up as questions:

- Tar Sands / Oil Shale (issues with Nat. Gas and Water)
- Economics
- New Technology Limitations (Transport vs. Electricity)
- Nuclear Power
- New discoveries
- "Free Energy"
- Biodiesel (deforestation)
- "Why isn't the government/oil companies/media acting if it is a real problem?"
- Hydrogen cells
- Abiotic Oil
- Conspiracy arguments ("the oil companies are hoarding tech")...waste of time?
- Rising Demand vs. Finite Supply... best and worst case senarios.

Resources/Flyers to create:

- An FAQ
- Handouts on specific questions
- Summary of presentation with (non-book) resources on back

Other things that came up:

- Global Warming (refer people to "An Inconvenient Truth")
- Water supply
- "The Long Emergency" article in Rolling Stone
- http://www.energybulletin.net
- Gene Manning
- The need for a great deal of cited research and complilation of gathered information in an accessible format.