At the roots of the problem

It has gone hot recently. I am not talking this because of the spring which at last arrived to Poland, but because of what is happening in the world. And what is happening? Well, i assume that my readers are well informed in the wolrd news, so there is not much sense to write about details. I will just let myself to pay your attention on one common element for the most important event of the recent, hm, years?

For how long the mayority of the most important discussions touch the question of ENERGY? For how long the fight for influence and domination is a matter of energetics, where the oil prices overturn the governments, lead to wars and the information about new investments in this branch are the source of serious international disputes?

There is no reason to feel suprised, when I sit in front of my computer and drink a coffee made in an electric coffee machine, I can imagine how hard it would be for me to resign of all these luxuries, which without the energy would become totally useless. All our modern civilization is addicted to a great amount of energy used in a different form and like an unsaturated hydra it always wants more and more.

So, what have Egypt, Libya and Japan in common? It is energy. Egypt is a country with a location of a strong strategical meaning, it controlls Suez Canal, which is a gate to Indian Ocean, so also Asian ports. At the moment when I am writing these words col. Ghadaffi takes control over another cities and it seems that he will keep in charge himself and his family for the next years. As we know his character, which I have described recently, everyone who reproved his actions to early, would sooner or later have to apoligize him on their knees, or search for another place for investments fot their national companies.

First of all, maybe it would sound heartless, the earthquake in Japan is not anything new. In the country which is located in such a place, sooner or later we could expect similar catastrophy. What is more, in 2004, after the last earthquake there was also a danger of a leak from the nuclear power plant. It did not disturb the Japanese to construct the most high-tech atomic reactors and being close to construct a power plant in India. Suddenly everyone started histericaly react on the word: “atomic energy”.

Very significant is an example from polish field, where the prime minister of Brandenburg, Matthias Platzeck together with aldermen of Berlin claimed, that after Japanese experience Poles should consider if construction of the atomic power plant is a good idea. It is preditcted that considering similar growth rate as Poland had in previous years, in close future we will suffer from poor energy supplies. What is more there are many obstacles to get the energy from other sources and thats why resigning from the atomic power in the case of Poland would look like suicide. To make the situation stranger, Poland is not located in the area with high seismic activity and the earthquake here is almost impossible.

There are many similar demands like this. What people like Mr. Platzeck expect to receive? Is is motivated only by the conern on enviroment? I really doubt. In the coming posts we will have a closer look on the energetic case, because it will perfectly complete what we have considered before.