#Energy; Who are they trying to fool?
Does anyone have confidence in energy prices?
Politicians blame climate change, war, Covid19, COP 26, gas and oil prices, etc.
The fact is that a “all time high” do not mean that all energy prices must rise! What happens when a “all price low” occurs? Nothing, is the answer!
I have lived in Spain for over 30 years now and have some facts to show.
Gasoline in 2001 had an average price of 0,70 €/l and crude oil 38,0 $/barrel. In 2022 gasoline cost 1.80 €/l and crude oil 103,0 $/barrel.
In 2013 the price of crude oil was 108,0 $/barrel and gasoline 1.45 €/l.
The conversion figures just do not work!
All time high Natural gas price happened in 2005, 15.78 $/MM.BTU, but did not have the negative effect as today, in 2022, with the price, much lower, at 6.5 $/MM.BTU.
All time high of crude oil was in 2008, with the price of 147,0 $/barrel, today 103,0 $
Carbon prices in the EU in was in April 2021, 45,5 € and in February 2022, 98.5 € ! This has all to do with demand, mostly depending the Chinese market…..!?
Wind and solar power have failed to lower the cost of electric consumer prices. EU, depends more on carbon and natural gas to produce electricity and to power to battery storage. The demand of electric cars, are not the solution to lower power consumtion.
The weather situation with large changes in wind and sunny days effects wind and sun power plants.
The political scare of nuclear power plants has stopped almost all expansion of a clean and reliable power. What we really need urgent is a new power like fusion energy.
I know that I probably should not try to explain all this to some of my readers, many of you have far more knowledge in this field, but I also think that I represent a large public opinion regarding who like to know more about what happen with energy prices.
Energy is big business; I wrote in one of my article’s:. https://windmush.com/2021/12/23/energy-is-big-business/
The politics should care more about the private economy, not only taking advantage of periods of international crisis, like what has happened lately.
Please give me some feedback.
Thanks for reading,
Windmush/Curt, 30-03-2022
#Inventions; Good and bad ideas.
I have used much of my time creating inventions. During a
time of my life, in the 1970-80th,
my ideas came at nights, around 3 am!
I always had a notebook next to my bed so I
could write them down.
It may have been the strangest
things like, an oil spill cleaning vessel, a vertical turbine
wind power generator or a simple water walking shoe……!
Some of this idea now exists and I am the owner of one
US/EU registered patent.
Others will the future tell us
about…. I used lots of time, but I will never say that I lost
this time, as I also invested lots of money in many cases.
This was one of my Time-Zones, as an inventor! I lived in
an advanced time having futuristic ideas that maybe will
become reality one day.
The Great, Leonardo da Vinci, also “lived in the future”!
“Leonardo da Vinci, conceived ideas
vastly ahead of his own time,
conceptually inventing the
parachute, the helicopter, an
armored fighting vehicle, the use of
concentrated solar power, a
calculator, a rudimentary theory of
plate tectonics and the double
hull. In practice, he greatly
advanced the state of knowledge in
the fields of anatomy, astronomy,civilengineering, optics, and the
study of water (hydrodynamics).”
Never be afraid to do crazy things in life, that is the way
to find out who you really are. Just get organized and use
your time wisely.
Richard Branson also has crazy ideas! But it made him
rich! When he bought two islands in the Caribbean, some
people taught he was crazy. But his idea was to keep one
as business maker and the other close by, for leisure. That
is what I call, #Quality Thinking.
Futuristic people will never be recognized, until proven that he/she was right! You only must add something more to your imagination, find it, and apply into your mind.
Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America’s greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world.
T. Edison, failed over 100 times, before he succeeded inventing the light bulb!
Do it now…Tomorrow can be too late!
Thank you for reading,
Windmush/Curt
Let´s talk about football !
Curt Bergsten, author of #The Power your Quality Thinking and #Power your Time Zones.
The Premier League club Chelsea was put up for sale by Russian owner Roman Abramovich before he was sanctioned following his country’s invasion of Ukraine. The last bid has been the incredible amount of 2.405 million euro (€2,4 billion).
Football has become a lucrative business for the “Big Players”. This will result in a demand of better education and training system in the world of football.
A raising demand for better education and psychological learning, is one of the reasons to the increase in Academic achievement, or University education to be included in the training program for football teams.
Many professional former football players are now establishing Academic learning and training centers to be offered to clubs and players.
Another example is the new program from FIFA; “The 90 Program”, is aimed at retired players with At least one senior international cap to their name and a good command of both written and spoken English. Looking for natural-born leaders and former players who are keen to transfer their on-pitch achievements into a second career, in football or any other field. Candidates should have a curious mind, a strong interest in sharing experiences and knowledge.
Another alternative is private initiative of university education to reach a high level of professional conduct within the football businesses. One of the latest examples is the Velez Club de Futbol in the Malaga area (Spain), now under management of two Swedish professionals in the football world. The club have presented an ambitious challenge to be the “smartest club” in Spain and to develop a new style of football university, #VMFU. www.vmfootballuniversity.com www.velezcf.com
I have been given the opportunity as Project Manager to lead the progress in developing the creation of the university together with the management team in #VelezFC. We will choose partners who understand our philosophy and goals, that can become the solution for players who are still on their way to becoming professionals, as well as for those looking for a different path.
A place to eat, sleep and drink football.
For more info: Mail, curt.bergsten@vmfootballuniversity.com
Thanks for reading, Windmush/Curt
Russia’s failure has led to a more brutal war…..
As I wrote in my previous article, Russia is waging a war that is outdated. President Putin has chosen a “rational” war more likely to the failure of the Nazis in World War II. He has shown himself as a power-mad dictator who runs a country he has not been able to govern, therefore he goes back in stories to remember the glorious days when his country was led by cruel rulers.
In recent years, the President of Russia has tried to create an idol image of himself, in full Hollywood style, as a rider, or expert in judo and other self-defense methods. At the same time, his private fortunes have increased to levels like That of Bill Gates and Elon Musk, which he has admittedly tried to hide.
However, he has shown a cowardice in his warfare by sending his troops of young and inexperienced soldiers to the first line of war. Moreover, his logistics in war tactics have become a total failure.
This failure has resulted in an “outbreak of rage” that has resulted in an uncontrolled attack with bombs hitting everything that is not part of a tactical warfare, such as hospitals, housings and schools. President Putin has proven to be a falling star, who will not remain in people’s hearts as an idol.
Unfortunately, due to the lack of help from NATO, Ukraine will fall, after this pointless war. This will make many people feel ashamed in the years to come! I myself have had several friends and colleagues from Ukraine during my lifetime, who now wonder what this friendship means. What have we all done to stop this terribly unnecessary war?
Useless negotiations have gone on to no avail. Economic austerity has been announced. But since the partner in the negotiations, President Putin, keeps his threat of nuclear war, the result is thereafter.
Several war criminals have been wiped out by AI technology, in the form of a drone attack, but not in this case.
Thank you for reading, and God bless Ukraine and its people.
Windmush/Curt. 12-03-2022
Emigrating to Australia.
When you emigrate, you leave the known – and become an immigrant in the unknown.
When I was young (15year), I got my first job as a sailor. Later, on my return to sweden I signed in at a Hospitality school Hasselbacken in Stockholm. It was a 2-year education program with work practice and study, long hours. I needed to use all my savings as a sailor, to cover the cost of my educating, but it was well spent money! When I graduated, I received an offer to work in a French Bistro, named Oscar, in Helsingborg. The owner, Gunnar Moreau, had been one of my teachers at Hasselbacken.
This was all a good and exiting experience, but I had other plans for my future. I got married and we decided to emigrate to Australia, where I had been as sailor and loved the way of living there, “down under.”
I had no problems to get a working permission and visa at the Australian embassy, with my certificate from the restaurant school. My wife and her son Tommy, 9 years of age, were included in my visa.
It is not so easy to take the decision to emigrate. You need to leave other family members behind, without knowing if you ever will see them again. It took us some time to meet all our relatives to say goodbye…Most of them accepted our decision.
At this year, 1968, granted emigrates received a free travel from London to Sydney, by Quanta’s airline. The adventure had just started; 26-05-1968!
At the arrival in London, we booked in at a motel not long away from the Heathrow airport. In the morning, next day, we ordered a typical English breakfast. A good start of the day.
Our luggage went on a wagon, and we had to walk out to the airplane, a brand-new Boing 707. We were told by the cabin staff that the flight has two stops, first in Bahrain and after in Singapore before arriving at the Sydney airport. Totally a 24-hour trip, but with the time change, it was 34 hours.
The service and food onboard the airplane, was simply perfect! The cabin-crew were all young male Aussies and gave us a first-class treatment. I have been recommending Quanta’s since then.
About two hours before landing in Bahrain, we had a terrific experience. The plane came into a turbulent area and suddenly fell into an air pit about eight hundred meters! This was my first time on a long flight and for a second thought that we were falling to the ground. The crew came quickly and told me, “Don’t worry mate,” these things happen.
It was a relieve to arrive at Bahrain airport, after 7 hours flight. This was also my first visit to this little Arab country, but our stop was short, and we had only time to stretch our legs for a short while at the airport tax-free area.
Back onboard for the next flight to Singapore and we were served a nice Australian fillet steak. What a fantastic service!
This time our flight went smoothly, without incidences. Arriving after another 6 hour and a half in the air, to the airport in Singapore, that now was an independent republic after the separation from Malaysia in 1965.
This time we had a 3 hour stop, enough time to do some shopping. When we stepped out of the airplane, we were surprised by the hot tropical air, almost +40*C!
Finally, after boarding we sat down in our seats for the destination of our journey, Australia! The crew now told us, that it was a direct 8-hour flight to Sydney.
After over 24 hours total traveling time, we finally arrived to step down on Australian ground, at the Sydney airport, 29-05-1968. Now we had to deal with a 10 hours’ time change, “jet leg”, and the start of the custom inspection of documents and luggage. Finally, when all this had been done, we were told to boarder an old bus that would take us to an immigration center.
This was our first surprise!
When they told us that the bus first was going to make a stop so that we could have a rest, I wondered about where are we were going now? A bumpy ride started when we left Sydney behind us and got out in the bush! It was not exactly a comfortable bus; I had seen similar in old movies. Nex surprise was at arriving to the first stopover, an old military camp constructed with curved tin roof, in the middle of nowhere! This place was just horrible, but our custom guide told us that we were leaving in the morning to our “new” home, Bonegilla Camp, at the boarder to the state of Victoria. It felt like we were transported like animals. I could not sleep at all, just thinking about my responsibility to my new family and how they felt.
The morning finally came with a terrible noise from strange birds, called Kookaburras! They had a laughing sound that at first was annoying, but later we got used to it.
We arrived at Bonegilla camp, surrounded by a high fence and a guarded gate, it was a scaring sight, like the entrance to a country jail!
This place had been a military training camp during the second world war and made by wooden barracks on poles, now used to “welcome” immigrants. We were checked in by a police officer and handed a key to our room, in one of the barracks. He welcomed us to our new country, Australia, with a big smile.
When we opened the door, the first thig we saw was a “few” Crickets (huge cockroaches)! It did not scare me, but my wife started to scream and run out! I had seen these creatures before as a sailor, but never had them in my room. I found a can of insect-killer and made sure all was gone before I called her to come in again. Not a particularly good start of our first day at Bonegilla.
Suddenly a siren sounded to call us the dining room that was situated in a larger building in the middle of the camp. There was a long queue outside the entrance, this was just like an army camp. Arriving to the food counter we were given plates with huge meatballs and fried potatoes. I do not know what it really was but a neighbor fellow, at the table, told me that it was Dingo meat…. My wife asked what he had told me, but never answered exactly with his words. It was a horrible dish! We had tropical fruits for dessert, to forget the taste of the meat balls.
I heard a Swedish family talking at another table and went to present my family to them. It was a family with two kids and the husband told me that they had been in the camp for 6 weeks! He also told me that they wanted to live in Brisbane and work as a cook, but the immigration had told him that no work was available in the hotel sector in Queensland. But he had received an offer to work at a car factory in Sydney!
I was incredibly surprised when I heard him telling us the story about the work situation in Brisbane, as that is where we were heading. I knew this town well after being there, when I worked on a Swedish vessel called M/s Broland and we had a prolonged stay in port because of a harbor strike. This cannot be true and said to him that there are always work in restaurants if you are a professional.
What had happened in such a brief time after arriving at the camp, made me angry. I had after all, a huge responsibility against my new family and did not like to let them down. This same day I went to talk to the officer at the entrance gate, to tell him that we wanted to leave the next day.
First, he told me that was not possible, but when he understood that I was determined to do so, he informed that we had to sign a document saying that I was now responsible for my family! This was fine for me, and he could not scare me with the fact that we had to pay our trip by train to Brisbane. But I was also well informed that if I can show a work and house contract before a period of three months, our costs would be refunded!
This was my decision and was not going to fail!
My wife was incredibly happy to hear me saying that I had arranged to leave the next day.
Early in the next morning, we came to the railway station after a short bus ride. I felt so happy about my decision that we finally were free to travel on our own. The ride to Brisbane was long, but this did not matter, a beautiful landscape with gumtrees and Koala bears sitting on the branches made us busy watching. We even saw small kangaroos jumping around at the ground, in the woods.
The landscape here gave me a feeling of freedom that I have missed since I was a sailor.
We arrived at the Brisbane central station in the morning. A station officers recommended a hotel situated on a hill, close to the town center. The easiest way was to grab a cab!
The Tower Mill Motel features a striking circular form, distinctive concrete sun-shading and a restaurant on the top floor.
The prices at this hotel were high, so I booked only for three days. Later in the evening we had dinner on the top roof restaurant and wen the headwaiter came to our table, I presented myself, and asked him if he knew any hotels looking for waiters. He was surprised by addressing him so direct, but later told me to visit the employment office at the five-star hotel, Lennon’s, giving them his recommendation. We became friends that evening.
First thing in the morning, I walked into the back door at Lennon’s Hotel with my CV including the restaurant school certificate. After the interview, they told me to come back in one hour. It was sixty long minutes, but I walked around the streets close by to not be late. This time I met the restaurant manager who asked me if I could start the next day!
I told him that I had no problem and signed my first employment contract in Australia!
At my first day at work one of my new mates recommended a house to rent, in a nearby area.
Things happened so fast that after only three days stay at the hotel, I had signed the contract to rent a small three-bedroom bungalow and our life in Brisbane was settled!
I had successfully completed my tasks as an immigrant in Australia!
I will be back with an storyteller regarding my longest trip on a cruise liner from Sydney to Genova.
Thanks for reading.
Windmush/Curt
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How do oligarchs exercise political power?
Oligarchy is a form of government where political power effectively rests with a small, elite segment of society (whether distinguished by wealth, family or military prowess). The word oligarchy is from the Greek words for “few” and “rule”.
Oligarchs keep their riches out of state coffers through the ‘Wealth Defense Industry.’ This is the cadre of professionals hired to lobby government and advise ways of hiding wealth, often through keeping it in tax havens.
The Wealth Defense Industry represents an army of lawyers, accounting firms, and high paid lobbyists, to keep records.
Russia has been labeled an oligarchy because of the power of certain individuals. Other countries like Venezuela uses dictatorship to strengthen the power to a group of “rich” who are using this to make investments outside of the country.
As today, the EU and USA will track down the Russians Oligarchs and freeze the assets as a result of the military aggression in Ucrania.
02-03-22
Windmush/Curt
Traditional war is outdated by a new TimeZone!
An intelligence war by IA, is a much better solution than what Mr. Putin at this moment are using against Urania today.
The mass destruction of buildings and killing people should be banned and only remembered in the history books.
With the high intelligence we have today, a war can easily be won against another country, without the loss of lives.
A total blackout in the power and communication system can easily be conducted for 48 hours by IA and is sufficient time to carry out an attack against any government and take control over a whole country.
Hackers has proven this many times in cases around the world, attacking systems in banks and companies.
The only problem is that the war-machine creates a huge profits and employment, so in the end the greed for making money is still behind most decisions of wars…..$$$$$$
Misunderstanding is still the reasons to most wars.
24-02-2022
Windmush/Curt
Most wars are the result of misunderstanding.
#TIMEZONE
Yesterday’s angry speech by Vladimir Putin was about rewriting the history of Ukraine. “You didn’t want us to be friends, but you didn’t have to make an enemy of us”, he addressed.
The peace treaty negotiations between the countries who were involved in World War II resulted in a magnification of miscommunication and awareness of present societal differences thus causing the beginning of the Cold War, that took years to end.
Are we in the same situation today?
Today’s Wars Are Based on a Fundamental Misunderstanding of History.
Until we correct it, we can count on ceaseless, tragic war, like following example:
“Vietnam: It’s always there. Looming in the past, informing American futures. A 50-year-old war, once labeled the longest in our history, is still alive and well and still being refought by one group of Americans: the military high command. And almost half a century later, they’re still losing it and blaming others for doing so”.
Another misunderstanding that never was necessary and ended up in a tragic war.
I believe that The European countries should be able to find a peaceful solution with Russia, without threats and without involving US……… After all we are living in the same continent!
Hope that this will end in a peaceful way for us all.
Windmush/Curt
22-02-22