Photo and article in the local newspaper

Yesterday we got married, and it was fantastic. We had wonderful weather, a great party and nearly all friends and direct family present. Even if our wedding car had been a 20 twenty year old rusty Astra it would have been a perfect day, but we were incredibly lucky to have a Tesla Roadster as a wedding car.

The New Motion () from Amsterdam has done us a great service by delivering the Roadster to our house on Thursday night, and picking it up from our party location on Friday night.

Thursday night, after the Roadster had been delivered, we drove it for a short distance. If you have to visit one of your masters of ceremonies it’s best to do so in style We also took the opportunity to drive the entire route from our home to the town hall, and from there on to the party location. That way we were sure everything would go right on The Day.

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About one cc North Sea Oil

For years I’ve been writing about energy, and it’s an inescapable fact that we get most of our energy from oil. One of the biggest challenges we are going to face in the near future is Peak Oil; the point in time where half of all oil that was once present on Earth has been produced and also the point in time where production speed (volume of oil per unit of time) simply can’t grow anymore – while demand is still rising.

I’ve heard, read, talked and wrote a lot about this subject – but I had never seen it in real life. I e-mailed Shell last week if they could send me a small sample of oil. Apparently they get this question all the time because yesterday I received in the mail a perspex cube of about 5cm which contains in it centre a small volume of oil. It has about the color and viscosity of soy sauce.

It’s a very intriguing object to have on ones tabel. Shell has made them beautifully, it’s quite heavy and the way the oil swirls around when the cube is moved is mesmerising. It can be played with thoughtlessly – or it can inspire thoughts.

Peakoil Netherlands () organises a discussion evening () on the topic of the relation between energy and economy. I signed on and got my confirmation just now, so I’ll be there. I’m an absolute layman in the area of economics, so I don’t expect to contribute much to the discussion. Especially because I want to learn more about I’ll go anyway, I hope I can learn a lot.

I also hope to meet a few acquaintances 

Peak Oil is a complex concept which goes much further than ‘we’re running out of oil’. Even the basic principles behind it are not always easy to grasp. This movie explains those basic principles behind Peak Oil: