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  • Geoffrey B. Small
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    • Nov 2007
    • 618

    New Works for Persuade in Bilbao (part II-1 continued)









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    • Geoffrey B. Small
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      • Nov 2007
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      New Works for Persuade in Bilbao (part II-1 continued)





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      • Atmosphere
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        • Jan 2010
        • 120

        thank you for sharing the piece on Bilbao and the Basque country, it was a very interesting read.
        Last edited by Atmosphere; 01-09-2013, 05:17 PM.

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        • coccodrillo
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          • Nov 2009
          • 119

          Geoffrey -looks like you had a great time with lovely Rosa + Co. at Persuade - truly a special place.

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          • Geoffrey B. Small
            Senior Member
            • Nov 2007
            • 618

            Dear Atmosphere and Coccodrillo,
            Thanks very much for your comments. Yes, it is truly a special place, and a remarkable experience. Best wishes, Geoffrey

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            • Geoffrey B. Small
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              • Nov 2007
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              • Geoffrey B. Small
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                • Nov 2007
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                New Works for Persuade in Bilbao (part II-2)










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                • Geoffrey B. Small
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                  • Nov 2007
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                  New Works for Persuade in Bilbao (part II-2 continued)










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                  • Geoffrey B. Small
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                    • Nov 2007
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                    New Works for Persuade in Bilbao (part II-2 continued)








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                    • Geoffrey B. Small
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                      • Nov 2007
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                      New Works for Persuade in Bilbao (part II-2 continued)






                      Last edited by Geoffrey B. Small; 02-08-2013, 02:54 AM.

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                      • Geoffrey B. Small
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                        • Nov 2007
                        • 618

                        New Works for Persuade in Bilbao (part II-2 continued)







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                        • Geoffrey B. Small
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                          • Nov 2007
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                          • Geoffrey B. Small
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                            • Nov 2007
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                            ON MONDAY MARCH 11TH, THEY WILL WANT YOU TO
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                            • Chinorlz
                              Senior Member
                              • Sep 2006
                              • 6422

                              Geoffrey, I've wanted to ask you for a while to hear your thoughts on it: Given your opposition to nuclear energy, what are your views on the alternatives/options in regards to providing the world with a viable energy source?

                              Certainly every fuel source has pros and cons and just like there are potential catastrophes with nuclear energy, fossil fuels (referencing the recent ongoing controversy with fracking as well as the pollution released from combustion) have their own problems too.

                              On an unrelated note, thank you for the article on Persuade in Bilbao. It definitely looks like quite a unique store and a different way of presenting artisanal goods and in some ways quite refreshing. I still like large austere settings, but to see someone taking the same products and bringing them into a new environment is quite interesting and it changes the "feel" of the items/garments there.
                              www.AlbertHuangMD.com - Digital Portfolio Of Projects & Designs

                              Merz (5/22/09):"i'm a firm believer that the ultimate prevailing logic in design is 'does shit look sick as fuck' "

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                              • Geoffrey B. Small
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                                • Nov 2007
                                • 618

                                Alternatives/options in regards to providing the world with a viable energy source

                                Dear Albert,

                                Thanks for your comments and question.

                                Well, the answer to the alternatives/options in regards to providing the world with a viable energy source is really simple. It's called renewables (basically, a serious ramp-up of just plain old existing-technology sun and wind power). And inspite of the endless propaganda to the contrary that we are being bombarded with by the carbon and nuclear energy industries and their politicians and media that they completely control, it is happening amazingly fast. Combined with equally fast developing technologies in energy and resource efficiency, the technological capability to solve the world's energy needs is now well within our grasp. The problem is that there are very serious interests that are committed to stopping it from happening, or at the very least- slowing it down fast enough, so that they can continue to milk the big profits from the existing energy infrastructure systems as they are today-while simultaneously attempting to configure ways to lock up the new technologies and form new monopolies with them that will continue to keep the majority of energy consumers totally dependent upon them well into the future. But things are happening fast.

                                In just the past 2 months, anyone who is really paying attention to the world energy situation, has witnessed a stunning series of new reports and data studies indicating that - inspite of the near total resistance on the part of most governments, media, and fossil & nuke energy industry interests to make any serious effort to convert to green energy economy, on the scale needed to resolve so many of the world's environmental, economic and social issues - there is a real energy revolution going on at the grass roots level that is leading to a total re-evaluation of the world's renewable energy capacities. And it is pointing a finger now directly at political and corruption issues that are now in the way.

                                For example, in 2012, wind power topped all US sources of new electricity generation in 2012. Like solar, wind power plants go up fast, require lower capital amounts, and get online and start contributing electricity way faster than any carbon, gas, fracking, shale oil, or nuclear plant-based operation. A nuke plant for instance, needs at least a decade before it ever even gets close to going online and generating a single watt of electricity. So if you need power now for your economy and your community, and need it fast, and want to decentralize both the usage and the financial requirements to get the production up and going- renewables are the answer. Just last year, an amazing 42 percent of all new generating capacity in the USA came in the form of wind turbines. Currently, all of America's wind power is located on land, so we haven't even scratched the ocean-based potential that Denmark and the UK are already beginning to tap. It is estimated that the US has almost 11 million megawatts of land-based wind power potential, capable of generating over 38 billion megawatt-hours of electricity per year. That's about 10 times 2010 US consumption! (article here: http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/...ation-in-2012/)

                                Also, last year wind surpassed nuclear as an electricity source in China, the world's fastest growing energy consumption market. In 2012, wind farms generated 2 percent more electricity than nuclear power plants, a gap that will likely widen dramatically over the next few years as wind surges ahead. Since 2007, nuclear power generation has risen by only 10 percent annually, compared with wind’s explosive growth of 80 percent per year. (article here)

                                And according to a recent Scientific American article the amount of wind power be reaped from tapping low- and high-altitude winds dwarfs global demand… http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...id=SA_Facebook

                                Is there enough energy in renewables to drive the economy? You bet there is, and don't forget, on average, renewable energies create 15 times more jobs in an industrialized economy than nuclear and traditional fossil fuels.

                                There's been a lot of talk about the European economic crises recently, with many saying that only Germany's economy is still holding on. But what many people are missing is that one of the reasons the German economy is doing better is that they have committed to leading a green economy revolution and that commitment is already delivering economic benefits, including jobs. More importantly, their growing field experience using renewables is disproving the vastly overused fallacy of the so-called need for "baseload" power sources such as nuclear or fossils, that has been hammered into the public consciousness by the lobbies of those very same industries. The idea that renewables can only be the 'sauce', and that the 'pasta' will always have to be fossil or nuclear in the world's energy plate of spaghetti has been promoted endlessly as an excuse to downplay the true potential of renewable energies. But now a new study out of Germany is openly stating that no base load power is needed. There have been doubts expressed in the international media that Germany may not be able to switch over directly from nuclear to renewables without first relying on ramped-up coal use during the transition. But that concern isn’t a common one within Germany. As the new study shows, renewables completely ‘obliterate’ the need for baseload power.

                                Article here:


                                So what's the problem?

                                It's not the tech. It's politics and corruption. Plain and simple. So obvious in fact is this blatant and bloated corruption between energy interests and govt., that the CEO of Exelon Corp., the US's largest nuclear power plant operator (and oldest and longest-standing contributor to Barack Obama's political career) threatened in the Chicago Tribune that his company would have to close nuclear facilities if others in the U.S. keep building so many wind turbines. Blaming the measly current subsidies for wind power, Exelon and the rest of the nuclear industry have benefitted from being the most heavily subsidized industry in the country for over 6 decades, beginning with the extremely controversial Price Andersen Act in the 1950's, which puts 100% of the financial risks, costs and dangers of nuclear power plant operation squarely on the shoulders of the American taxpayer and utility rate payer. That means you and me... http://grist.org/news/exelon-issues-...-dumb-threats/

                                But it's not just wind that is breaking the energy field wide open. It's old fashioned PV solar too. 2012 marked massive growth in solar power installation and power generation as well as reductions in costs...


                                And it's continuously lowering costs of panels and electricity production are continuing to set new records. For instance, a new 50 megawatt solar plant in El Paso is reporting electricity production costs at just $5.79.KwH, almost half the cost of a new coal power plant.
                                article here: http://www.earthtechling.com/2013/02...al-in-el-paso/

                                And here in Italy, after stopping the program to build a fleet of totally untested AREVA EPR nuclear reactors all over the country, we have seen enough small-scale solar farms and installations go up in the last 3 years to already replace almost 2 large nuclear power plants in electrical production. They're up, they're running and making electricity and money for their small-scale owners, now. Fast, efficient and relatively cheap. There is no question to their advantages. The only real problem is we actually don't need big power companies to benefit from them. In fact, ENEL the national grid operator that wanted to operate the nuke plants is now actively pushing and begging homeowners all over Italy to finance solar plants on their rooftops so they can rent them back to them at unnecessary markups and huge profits (caveat emptor). Even they are now totally sold on solar, albeit not exactly for altruistic or environmentally sound reasons.

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