[davidyson]

Hi moderators, recently I sent your URL to a friend of mine to introduce him to the PO theory. His comment was: "They don't say who they are - on the web, that makes me very suspicious of them."
Also, you have a menu item "Legal notice" which represents some sort of contract between you and the users. However, if I do not know who exactly are the persons with which I make that contract, I rather think it's invalid anyway.
May I kindly ask you therefore to disclose your real names and addresses?
Even more credibility could be created by also giving education and occupation and a statement about any sponsor or other ties.

[Aaron]

lol If I give you my address, are you going to stop by?
Two private friends admin this site along with our volunteer moderators. Dan owns the domain, and I volunteer admin. (& yes my name really is Aaron) We are not affiliated with any group or company etc...

Despite the advertising, which produces almost no money, it actually costs money out of pocket to support PO.com. Which is nothing compared to the many hours we all spend trying to make this a useful resource. I won't "out" Dan, but I'm from Texas near Mission Control NASA, and work in technology.

The "Legal Notice" is common to most boards, and is our notice to everyone about the fair use of this site. not a contract. We understand about the skepticism... we can hardly believe it ourselves. We just think it's more important than any other issue facing our world.

If we can find someone to donate use of a server, we hope to deploy a Voice over IP function here... & you can just ask...

[lowem]

Maybe an "About Us" page might help?

That should be pretty reasonable, since a fair number of people will look for it first thing when they hit a new site. I know I do, sometimes.

[davidyson]

Thanks for your reply, Aaron.

Stopping by:

Not before we have a mutual appointment...
Also, travelling to the US has become very tedious.

I very much appreciate your effort to build and maintain this site.

I just agree with lowem that it would lend this site more credibility if we would know who you are, what your ties are and why you are doing it.
(And if you do not want to disclose your full name and address, then maybe you could at least explain why not.)

Yours,

Davidyson

[dmtu]

I'm not sure this is requested of me but here I go.

I stumbled into peak oil by reading a book called The Hydrogen Economy by Jeremy Rifkin if memory serves. The book offered a utopian view of how the world will be when we no longer depend on foriegn oil, this being when solar panels on our houses break H2O down into H and O fueling not only our homes but our vehicles. After I finished the book I put it down and didn't give peak oil another thought until I stumbled on to Life After The Oil Crash by accident, which in turn led me to this site. I'm actually of a blue collar background in the mining industry. I'm currently a middle of the road peaker if you wanted to label me. I think there is trouble ahead but that humanity will survive in a style similar to the 1850s through 1910.

I believe I was volunteered to mod because I have a basic understanding of the concept and was one of the earliest active posters. I'm also a news junky and therefore submitted many news items and links. So far I have done small edits such as those requested by users and deleting double post as well as hate threads. Aside from that my input is minimal and often absent.

[davidyson]

dmtu,

thank you for your reply!

Anybody else?

Davidyson

[Aaron]

http://www.peakoil.com/contentid-20.html

[EnviroEngr]

I'll bite. What is it you're specifically interested in knowing?

September could be Peakoil.com Admin/Moderator Awareness Month!

I'll be back Monday, Sept. 13th.

[rowante]

Hi Davidyson,

like dmtu, I'm a stumbler. I'm a video editor by trade and was working on a program about bio-diesel. Curious, I started to do my own research into the viability of alternative fuels and stumbled into dieoff.org. Bemused at first, fascinated later, eventually terrified as I searched the web for some witty debunking of the theories illuminated on Jay Hansons site. After about nine months of trawling the web for peak oil related material I came across this site.

As you can see on the left, I am located in Sydney, Australia.

Regards,
Rowan Tucker-Evans

[EnviroEngr]

This is me:

JOHN T. HEINEN

This is what I do:

- Environmental, Health and Safety Director. June 2003 - Present
Responsible for all aspects of Environmental Compliance, Compliance Demonstration and Permitting. Responsible for all except administrative portions of the Health and Safety program. Conduct all the Toxicology Studies and Industrial Hygiene testing. Provide Engineering and Technical Support services to the entire facility.

I was trained:

Education
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Bachelor of Science, December 1989, 3.78 GPA (Summa Cum Laude)
Major: Industrial Technology; Minor: Materials and Processes

And have other skills:

- Managing Multiple Priorities
- Technical Writing
- Team Building & Empowering Work Groups
- Seven Management & Planning Tools
- Process Oriented Approach to Group Dynamics
- Gauge R&R
- Statistical Process Control
- Sand Lab Technician Training (Cast Metals Institute)

&:

- EPA Method 9 (Visible Emissions/Opacity)
- EPA Regulatory Compliance (National Registry of Professionals # 023-4226)
- Storm Water Pollution Prevention Management
- Hazardous Waste Management (National Registry of Professionals # 023-4226)
- Emergency Management (Completing State Level One and Two)
- Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (Pursuing Certification)

My affiliations:

- American Chemical Society
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Federation of Environmental Technologists
- Great Lakes Regional Pollution Prevention Roundtable
- Ocean Arks International
- American Foundry Society --
Environmental (10-E and 10-F), Health & Safety (10-Q) and
Sand Committees (4-S)
(Secretary, 4-S October 1996 - April 1999)
- RC Local Emergency Planning Committee (Chairman, June 1999 - Present)
- Peakoil.com Moderator and Contributing Author

Good to get to know all of you

I hope that transparency like this not only yields a forum which is a more credible source of information, but also sets a precedent for others to follow.

Which reminds me, is it a coincidence that this is all we know about you?:

Location: Germany
Website:
Occupation: Software Project Manager
Interests:

Perhaps I missed it in another post that's buried in a thread I don't frequent, a description of your salient characteristics?

Always remember and never forget, you are peakoil.com too!

[davidyson]

Thank you,

John, rowante, aaron,

to be fair:

- (can't disclose my real name yet)
- age 34, married, 3 children
- living in Potsdam, Germany
- software project manager for a large German software house
- have been: IT journalist, advertising texting guy, business consultant, software developer and software distributor
- no affiliations
- strong interest in simulation, particularly in developing a "war game" type simulation of a post-peak world
- currently working at an "energy facts" site to bring all the facts to one place for reference and better informed discussion
- also planning to derive on the basis of these facts a model telling us how much of the oil peak can be compensated by renewables and coal

Came accross this site when doing intensive web research after a friend of mine from England gave me Heinberg's "The Party's Over".

Happy?

Davidyson

[davidyson]

Aaron,

I have only just seen the "about us" link.

Great! Thank you very much!

Yours,

Davidyson

[EnviroEngr]

Good point reading between the lines a bit. If we don't change the world we've made, the Lord of the Quarks will see fit to scatter our pattern!

[mindfarkk]

thanks!!!

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davidyson', 'H')i moderators,

recently I sent your URL to a friend of mine to introduce him to the PO theory.

His comment was: "They don't say who they are - on the web, that makes me very suspicious of them."

Also, you have a menu item "Legal notice" which represents some sort of contract between you and the users. However, if I do not know who exactly are the persons with which I make that contract, I rather think it's invalid anyway.

May I kindly ask you therefore to disclose your real names and addresses?
Even more credibility could be created by also giving education and occupation and a statement about any sponsor or other ties.

Yours,

Davidyson

[Cool Hand Linc]

I'm MissingLink

I am the missinglink because of a joke that occurred in an engineering office I worked in as a draftsman. During a project an engineer recognized that production would have great dificulties making a certain link. It was a connector link of sorts.

My name is Lincoln so this engineer suggested I name the part, "The MissingLink". He then approved the prints and out to production they went. As predicted, production could not get these links made correctly.

Finally this all went to the engineering manager. He was pretty upset with "The MissingLink". He was so mad! Everybody but him really got a good laugh out of the deal.

So I use MissingLink as a screen name and for games as well.

I am Lincoln.

So to I want to know your name but have chosen to not reveal your self$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'd')avidson, - (can't disclose my real name yet)

[TamaraC]

Well, I'm kind of new too, but I have a habit of posting a lot, no matter whether I have anything really useful to say. (I'm working on it, and respond well to the occasional smack upside the head).

Here's me:

I'm Tamara Griesel
34, married mother of two small children
I live in Silver Spring, Maryland (I may say Wheaton, Maryland at times, the two are roughly interchangeable. It's a close in suburb of DC.

I have a Masters degree in biology, but mostly I'm home with my small children right now, since child care costs more than I can make. I teach part time for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, where it is getting increasingly difficult for me to justify spending my time teaching testing strategies when my skills would be better put to use learning everything possible about permaculture and teaching that.

My husband is an archivist.

If anyone happens to need one of those, let me know. The DC area has already crashed. Or is at least close to it, in terms of quality of life.

TamaraC in Maryland

[vfr]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'l')ol

If I give you my address, are you going to stop by?



Two private friends admin this site along with our volunteer moderators.

Dan owns the domain, and I volunteer admin. (& yes my name really is Aaron)

We are not affiliated with any group or company etc...

Despite the advertising, which produces almost no money, it actually costs money out of pocket to support PO.com. Which is nothing compared to the many hours we all spend trying to make this a useful resource.

I won't "out" Dan, but I'm from Texas near Mission Control NASA, and work in technology.

The "Legal Notice" is common to most boards, and is our notice to everyone about the fair use of this site. not a contract.

We understand about the skepticism... we can hardly believe it ourselves.

We just think it's more important than any other issue facing our world.

If we can find someone to donate use of a server, we hope to deploy a Voice over IP function here... & you can just ask...

[vfr]

BTW

I am a transplant from L.A., lived there 35 years and moved in 1989 to the NE US to 'city-country' as opposed to 'city-city'. I had a big shock the first time the electric went off for more than 5 minutes in my new local. That was the day I learned about self sufficiency about 17 years ago.

Bought some candles and a flashlight and went on from there. But that only clued me into 'short term survival' with my preparedness aimed at 4 to 6 weeks.

Then came 'peak oil' ' peak NG' 'peak food' 'peak water' 'overpopulation' and had my eyes opened to long term, indefinite survival.






Take care,


V (Male)

Agnostic Freethinker
Practical Philosopher
Futurist
Urban Homesteader

[EnviroEngr]

Interesting to reflect on these things from time to time....