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PEAK - The Python Enterprise Application Kit (1159 words) |
 | PEAK is as large as it is only because it has historically been difficult to manage dependencies between separately-distributed Python packages. |
 | I still don't want to excessively promote PEAK to people who aren't willing to do a little digging and experimenting, so I guess I should shut up now. |
 | But its main purpose is to be a "shakedown cruise" for PEAK 0.5, to find out what, if anything, is missing from the framework for building complete applications. |
| Peak Oil Primer | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse (2461 words) |
 | Of the 65 largest oil producing countries in the world, up to 54 have past their peak of production and are now in decline, including the USA (in 1970/71) and the North Sea (in 2001). |
 | Many of the official sources of data used to model oil peak such as OPEC figures, oil company reports, and the USGS discovery projections, upon which the international energy agencies base their own reports, can be shown to be very unreliable. |
 | Peak Oil presents the potential for quite catastrophic upheavals, but also some more hopeful possibilities, a chance to address many underlying societal problems, and the opportunity return to simpler, healthier and more community oriented lifestyles. |