Bandwidth at Lumen Festival
by admin on Apr.11, 2012, under Bandwidth, Events, Integrated Media, Media, Music, Open Source, Projects, Technology, Victoria G
Bandwidth: Interactive Installation has been selected to be shown at the Lumen Festival in Staten Island, NY!
My media art, Bandwidth has been selected for the Lumen Festival on June 23, 2012. They do not have the funding to support the artists, so I am asking you to assist.
If you are in NYC come to the show!
I am seeking funding through Indiegogo with fun perks.
See more information about Bandwidth on my portfolio site
It won’t happen without your help!
Please go to the IndieGoGo site and donate now.
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Leave the Oil in the Ground News Feed
#nopipelines #banfracking
"The article from E&E News reporter Mike Soraghan underscores the federal Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's (PHMSA) weak authority over the fossil fuel industry for these disasters.
The government levied a mere $5.4 million in fines for the 13 pipeline explosion and fire cases in the last eight years, the analysis found."
"That's less than one day of profits for one major pipeline company, TransCanada."
"More than 300 people have died and 1,200 have been injured due to natural gas pipeline incidents in the last 20 years—and the nation's aging gas distribution network further increases these risks."
Over and over, natural gas proves us right - it is NOT safe. Even if a gas explosion doesn't hurt any living beings, it is pretty guaranteed to have caused damage, and it adds to greenhouse gases increasing extreme weather exacerbated by climate change. Until use and extraction of natural gas is shut down completely, the companies which have explosions and leaks from their work with natural gas should be made to justly pay for all problems caused and have their pipelines, drill sites and infrastructure shut down immediately for repeated explosions, leaks and fires.#sustainable
The EU just voted to completely ban single-use plastics
futurism.com
The ban could go into effect as soon as 2021.#banfracking We are being poisoned for profit.
Mothers Out Front - Finger Lakes
The Cayuga Power Plant proposes to repower with fracked gas delivered by truck. We propose to stop them. Last Friday, 70 concerned citizens sat through a 2 hour special meeting of the Planning, Development, and Environmental Quality Committee of the Tompkins County Legislature on a weekday morning. After hearing 30 people speak, the committee voted 4:1 in favor of a strongly worded resolution asking the NY Department of Environmental Conservation to deny the Cayuga Power Plant's application to convert to burning fracked gas. A finalized version of the resolution will be considered by the full legislature on Tuesday, November 20th at 5:30.#sustainable Canada is not keeping the Paris Accord promise.
U.S. school districts are purchasing electric buses made by a Quebec-based company. In addition to cutting pollution, the electric buses cost about 75% less to fuel and 60% less to maintain.
Time for Canadian school districts to invest?#nopipelines Nobody wants this low grade product.
www.worldofchemicals.com/media/balls-of-bitumen-could-avoid-pipeline-problem-research/11990.html
At the present time the Alberta oil sands development is not a money making operation. In my opinion, it never will be. There are several reasons for this.
The first and most important one is the idea that the bitumen product can compete as a source to be refined into oil products similar to conventional oil. As Ian Gates, the maker of bitumen balls tells us:
Gates added that Alberta’s energy future may be better spent investing in non-transportation oil markets, using bitumen for carbon-demand products like carbon fibre and graphine. He says this first generation of bitumen balls will be ideal for road paving, without the need to upgrade it further.
“Folks are building roads all over this planet, and heavy oil and bitumen as a feedstock material for asphalt is better than conventional oil,” he concluded. “Our reliance has been on the idea of turning our oil into transportation fuels, and we need to refocus that. There’s a huge economic bonus to be had by Alberta, but it requires research and investment.”
Alberta bitumen will never be worth as much as conventional oil period. It is very expensive to refine into conventional oil products. It has a high sulphur content so no refinery in Western Canada can upgrade it to a usable product. It must have imported, expensive condensate added (around 40% of the content) to make it flow down a pipe.
There is no economic model that will make a profit turning oil sands into conventional transportation fuels.Your product sucks. Light sweet crude prices are dropping. Quit pretending shoveling more diluted bitumen onto world markets will raise the price.
Deal with reality, Alberta, not your magical "pipelines will fix everything" delusion!
