Operation Odyssey Dawn too late?

Libya is infected by the Jasmine Revolution, but the Revolution trembles before something they haven't seen in a while.


Moammar Gadhafi. Regarded as one of the most, eh, 'eccentric' leader of all time. Called a Mad Dog by Ronald Reagan, former U.S.A president, and sworn enemies of Margeret Thatcher, former prime minister of U.K. Known best for it's flamboyant fashion and its female bodyguards.


And if Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Ben Ali of Tunisia peacefully give in to the demonstratives, Moammar Gadhafi will not step down without a decent fight.


Even in ironies with the fact that he also raise a revolution 40 years ago against his predeccesor King Idris 1 without the use of force, contradicting of today's revolution 1000 victim- mainly because of Gaddafi's air force.

So it's sensible that at least to put a No-Fly zone on Libyan coastal area- where more than 90% of Libyan Population live.


The problem is, a lot of country seldom doing intervention, except U.S.A, U.K, and France, and they're busy enough doing their internal problem.


After a long-long discussion, even with U.S.A actually reluctant to do an intervention (Iraq is fading off, Afghanistan is on the process, and now Libya is on the way?) they agree to declare a no fly zone above Libya.


The problem is its a bit too late.


Back into last week or two, the Libyan opposition seems to be invincible, and controling areas far behind their headquarters in Benghazi, and now they're struggling to hold on from Gaddafi's army, heading straight to Benghazi. A no-fly zone at present times might not be as effective as a no-fly zone last week, when the opposition is in full power and full morale.


Well, somethings are just imperfect, but now the only thing we can pray about is that God bless all.

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The Most Influential Car of The Century?

Yes, it maybe the car that will save the world.

No, not because its funky speedometer.

It looks like a car, and it's an ordinary car except for one thing; it's powered by hydrogen. Honda Clarity FCX- as Honda named this revolutionary car.

This days people are looking for an alternative source for fossil fuel, because clearly we will be running out of fossil in the next 5-20 decade.

Why start now, a lot of people ask, why not 2 or more years before?

There is one problem considering that, the fact that the total world demand for energy per year is about 400 quadrillion BTUs, 1 BTUs is about the same as a match.

To give you a figure, here is what that mean: 400,000,000,000,000,000 BTUs.

And 88% of those are made by burning both fossil fuel, coal, and natural gas. That is about: 352,8 quadrillion BTUs.

Once again, 352,800,000,000,000,000 BTUs.

The longer time we delay, the less time we have, the rougher will the transition be.

So not a bad idea to change now, right?

Back to cars. Cars, one of the main consumer of nonrenewable resources we're addicted to use. Throughout the years (mainly this decade) a lot of inventor come with ingenious alternative. Solar panel, for example will never run out of fuel- at least for the next 5 billion years and the sky is clear. But there is one problem.

They're not practical.

You don't want to use solar panel in the arctic, not in the desert as well, and not where you get rain all year. What is the use of battery if it last for several kilometer and you have to charge it all night?

Hydrogen, in the other hand is different.

We fill it up in the filling station, it's the most abundant element in the known universe, the only emission is water (yes, H2O), and less likely to have any breaking parts- the only moving part is the engine. Technically brilliant!

Some says its hard to 'mine' Hydrogen, because it's the most abundant element on the known universe, it always stick to other elements as well. But is it harder than drilling oil 4,000 km under the surface?

Honda spot this opportunity, and then it launch this car, but only to the Southern California region, to test the public interest. And plans 300 car over the next 2 year.

Turns out the best way to save the world is to be practical.

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The 6th Epoch- The Anthropocene?

Anthropocene is a new era- The Human Powered, Fossil Fuel Driven, New Era. This informal term for The Age of Human was coined by Paul Crutzen- an Atmospheric Chemist- in the year 2000. 'It mark the evidence and extent of human activities that have significant  global impact on the Earth's ecosystem' as the Wikipedia says, and it's the euphemism of 'The Age when Human is Starting the 6Th Mass Extinction'.

There is a debate, about when was this era started. Some say that it started during the industrial revolution in The Great Britain, other say that it started when the Agriculture Revolution happen in the Fertile Crescent of India, West Asia, and Egypt. But one thing for sure- we were, are, and possibly will place an irreparable footprint in our beloved homeland.

There are 5 mass extinction known to man, or 'The Big Five' in its more popular name. Bad news is, the 6th is happening right now. And its not an asteroid, volcano, tectonic shift, extreme weather, or anything usual, it is caused, by a species named Homo Sapiens.

In the past our use of weapon have driven a lot of species, such as Mammoth and Dodo, to extinction, but nowadays, our influence are more indirect.

Our starvation of energy since the Industrial Revolution have affect us, causing us to exploit the earth to the limit. And the fact that our population have quadrupled since then isn't helping anything either. We're pumping more CO2, nitrogen, and more seemingly harmless pollution, than all of the species combined.

So now its our choice, to place this irreparable footprint, or to approach more sustainable ways (see my next post; hydrogen, future of the cars?). (Brahma)

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