As a gas supply manager, you are responsible for getting a hold of the required supplies of gas for various companies. If you have a plant or a manufacturing unit then there are companies that can help to custom design a mass flow meter accordingly. There are always new objects, people, animals, chemicals, machines, buildings, roadways and unfamiliar phenomena jostling for our attention. · There are at least eight existing pipelines crossing between Canada and Eastern US states. While other States in the U.S strained to recover from the Recession, Texas recovered all the jobs that were lost during this period. Those who ignore the borders between Canada and the United States and the United States and Mexico must not like the inconvenient facts of sovereignty. But then they ignore who long it takes for solar energy to grow into as sizable part of our energy mix. It rests on the observation that there have been substitutions in the past, and for this reason the principle of substitution has become part of economists’ dogma. This conclusion is based on my own observation and understanding of the current state of energy consumption. To politically and sociologically aware eyes it does not seem possible that anything could deflect Chinese society from its current course, save a brick wall–perhaps in the form of peak oil or massive drought or plague.

They realize, of course, that gas is the centerpiece strategy around the world to cut greenhouse gas emissions, backup wind and solar, and provide reliable and affordable energy. We thought they were bringing us Science, a unified, coherent, utterly rational world that essentially determined our destiny and yet also strangely left us entirely free in the social and political realm. It does not dismiss the sciences or any other endeavor as merely a social construct with nothing to tell us about the world outside ourselves. The sciences have indeed been bringing the natural world to us, just not in the way we thought. You will recall that at the beginning of this century a small, but well-informed group of petroleum geologists began to garner increasing public attention with their warnings about world peak oil production. Kurt, “We will never run out of oil” is directly from Morris Adelman. Not that it sets out to be a horror film.

China is a society with huge built-in momentum that is everywhere on display in this film. It is hard enough to imagine North America and Europe coming to their senses and embarking on a crash program for creating a sustainable society. He is not holding a referendum on whether industrial society on balance is good or bad. The job of a surgeon ranks amongst the top paying jobs, but the high pay comes with a good amount of stress. The cities in Gulf like Abu Dhabi, Doha, Bahrain, etc are popular among expatriates for their lucrative jobs with high salaries and welcoming lifestyle. Even though Hayward had been forced by then to quit BP in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the new CEO Robert Dudley picked up the threads with RIL. Kentucky’s oil ventures has been lapsed and depressed for so long that there exists no skilled laborers who know how to run a rig, or even rigs to be run, for that matter.

The easy answer is that we have been in an energy emergency for more than a decade without even realizing it. Your question about how the world reached such a crisis in energy is both easy and difficult to answer. The more difficult answer must trace the events of the last 20 years in order to provide the background you will need to understand our current predicament. For one wishes neither for China’s current course to continue, nor for the arrival of those things which seem potent enough to stop it. Rather, he wants viewers to look at things they rarely see–the extractive and industrial processes that make our modern lives possible and the waste–the piles and piles and piles of waste–that result. He wants viewers to look at these things deeply, carefully, quietly, with a patient gaze. Beyond the cumulative environmental and workplace horrors of China’s economic juggernaut, viewers feel themselves dwarfed by the scale of operations they witness.

And, this is not simply a question of incentivizing people to go out and look for economical deposits of helium. We must, however, finally sort through the things and people we encounter in our deliberations to determine which we will listen to and which we will screen out. We see young, barefoot Bangladeshi men bailing crude oil out of a half-open, beached oil tanker which is being disassembled for scrap. We are looking at Newfoundland and Labradorians and other Canadians being screwed by traders that are trading on events that have yet to happen. They are ignorant of the laws of thermodynamics and the fact that energy is the master resource. Although most will not name what will be substituted for fossil fuels, there are few who recognize that solar energy is the only possible substitute for continued life on the planet. There is nothing that says, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” quite like a trip to China with Edward Burtynsky, an internationally known Canadian photographer. In a recent film he takes us there for a tour of the detritus of industrial civilization–the mines; the junk heaps; the blackened, desolated landscapes. His reason for saying this was that there will always be a substitute for resources that become scarce.