Thursday, April 14, 2011

Work in progress

So I’m working on my visualisation of the cubic mile of oil. As I did not update it till now what is the cubic mile of oil or cubic kilometer of oil, the CMO\CKO is a unit of energy(thermal energy released during its combustion) was created by Hew Crane of SRI International to aid in public understanding of global-scale energy consumption and resources. So with the help of this unit and the sources from mister Hew Crane I manage to visualise a better the understansing of the amount of oil and other resources we use.

Beside the books and reports research I have a great update, the last weeks I came over a blog from a girl from University of Minnesota- Minneapolis.Molly Eagen is curently Research Assistant at Center for Sustainable Building Research in U.S.

Her thesis paper is called “100 days without oil” (www.100dayswithoutoil.blogspot.com ). She lived 100 days without oil for a better understanting of our society dependence on petroleum. I took contact with her and she was very excited of my project. She agreed that I could use her data she collect during the 100 days. She is planing to publish her book soon, and she could use my visualzation. Would be co cool!!