Shahriar Shibley

World's temperature is rising. What can we do about it? Not a whole lot. The Second Law of thermodynamics dictates it. Anything we do in our life will cause the entropy to increase. Entropy is measure of disorder. When disorder increases in matter, the heat increases. Climate change due to global warming is a reality, it occurring and we have to accept it. Receding glaciers, rising sea levels and drying marshes and lakes are evidences of it. But changes in earth are nothing new. Today's oil and gas fields were rain forests millions of years ago. Salt mines were vibrant  seas in the distant past. Animal world and humanoids lived through continental shifts. So, we should not be surprised that a catastrophic change in earth and its atmosphere is occurring in front of of eyes. The only difference is that current changes are being caused by human activities.   Our willingness to address this problem depends on how much we want to sacrifice for our great great great grand k...

Natural gas price is so low in North America. Yet, in South Asia, consumers are paying much higher price for it because of high demand and low supply. It is time for North American gas producers to take advantage of this opportunity aggressively.  Just liquefy the gas and send abroad. Liquefying plants should be built around port cities for shipments to South Asia, immediately after production. Shipbuilders need to come up with a new breed of ships to transport large volume of Liquefied Natural Gas and feed into the pipelines of importing countries. Electricity demand is also rising rapidly in South Asia. The rate of construction of electricity generating plants simply is not enough to keep up with the demand. Building a hydro-electric plant requires massive infrastructure spending and loss of arable land which cuts into agriculture output. Coal and Natural Gas powered generating station need the fuel that many of South Asian are starving for. Wind and solar generators are really...

Due to advancement in computer technology, many industries are becoming things of the past. For example, the neighborhood print shops. Previously, if we needed some letterheads, envelops, business cards or fliers, we would run to the local print shop. But, now we do all those things on our computer. It makes you ponder, what other industries are becoming obsolete. Publishers are selling books in electronics formats. In ten years, book sellers will have no reason to maintain huge book stores in malls and other places. Unless, the stock up variety of other items to sell. Public libraries are becoming like play grounds for kids and Internet hubs for adults. Remember Blockbuster Video? In the 90's, it , along with other video stores, were the coolest stores on the block. The whole industry was whacked out of business by digital downloads.