On Tuesday evening it was the small scale: the Eco Energy Fair meeting, where things continue going along. Publicity is starting to loom large and it's still perfectly unclear how it's going to happen, and the grant is still not done, but apart from those tiny details, there are decent hopes that it's going to be a good try.
On Wednesday evening was the (supposedly) citywide scale: the Transition forum meeting. I had a feeling from the days before that it was going to be fine, partly because I knew the Fatherly Figure had tied himself into a knot with his power play of trying to control the account signatories, and partly because I had publicised the email where the whole dirty game was explained and invited a lot of people to come along to the meeting. Under such circumstances, you know that people will be forced to be civil, or sink forever into a hole of their own digging. Fatherly Figure didn't even appear. The people who came were completely reasonable at all times. Things will still be up in the air till October, when supposedly we'll have the Annual General Meeting, but we'll see.
On Tuesday was also the event at global scale: The Oil Drum have published the article about EROEI in my model (my updated version of "Limits to growth"). You can find it here:
The most interesting conclusion is that we need a policy to push for renewables. If not, even if tomorrow we got a great new renewable source with incredibly high EROEI, people would continue burning fossil fuels because it makes sense in the short term, and climate change will catch everyone by the end of the 21st century.
Charlie Hall loved it and invited me to Syracuse to present it. Unfortunately, Syracuse is at the other side of the Atlantic and the conference is exactly on the same date as the Eco Energy Fair. Oh, well.
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