Final Thoughts on UOIT

My last thoughts on UOIT, and why I am considering moving to he Bay Area.

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[brettbrett1]

What are you talking about "there is no future in automotive research" and "there's no time for that". Would you like to elaborate a bit on how the automotive industry is not going to survive in 10 years? Oil may be an obsolete and an expensive way of fueling vehicles, but unless we create some kind of teleport technology (lol), our depence on transportation will never be greater. I would go as far as to say that UOIT's best chance of solid future recognition starts with this GM partnership.

[ajtait]

Google "Peak Oil". Do some reading. Talk to professors at the school (Dr. Peter Berg) and ask them if they think the automotive industry is the future. Alternative fuels are a fantasy. Our best estimates point that we are at the peak of oil production right now, and that by the time we are on the steady slope towards depletion, we wont have a buyable alternative. You are right, we are dependent on transportation, thats why we have to change how we all live in order to survive.

[brettbrett1]

What I'm basically saying is that I wouldn't necessarily count out the ability of our species to adapt and transform the way we live. Afterall, there are many people like you with very unselfish goals of improving our state of being. We need "phine" ideas, and business people who want to change the world instead of their bank account. It's just my opinion that when it comes to a resource so vitally important to human existence, we will find a way just as we frequently have throughout history.

[ajtait]

Alternatives might be able to power a fraction of our energy needs, but my understanding is that they currently can not do so. We need that power within two years the latest. I don't think people will change out of the goodness of their heart, they will do it out of their wallet. It is a simple supply and demand issue. You will need to be extremely rich to continue a happy motoring lifestyle. These people currently own private jets. I want to help the people who aren't super rich live after oil.

[DUTTYWINE1TIME69]

yes uoit is great they offer a great variety of resources in fact when i first arrived in 2007 there were a great number of people who had approached me on residents asking if i wanted weed i was later told that i could also purchase rocks from 3 floor res room#3412 i am now in my 2nd year and as high as ever hope you have fun :)

[tttony]

Finally! I find some information from someone with a deeper perspective on UOIT. This really helped me. You see, I'm attending UOIT next year (communications), and I love nothing more than genuine innovation. What I'll try to do is somehow influence the student body to really get a true grasp on this school's foundation: challenge, innovation and connect. This is all coming from an idealist though.

Question: Were there a good number of people at UOIT with a true entrepreneurial spirit?

[vinny252525]

As one of the 1st graduates from UOIT (BEng), and working in the oil and gas industry for almost 2 years, I can tell you one thing... sure we've hit "peak oil", but these oil companies have a LOT more oil than is actually reported. Oil prices are heavily artificial.

FYI, a solar panel array of 100 km^2 can generate enough energy to power all of California.

[cjk100000]

The peak oil thing is scary, and not many people know how bad it would be if it actually dropped off tomorrow.

[brettbrett1]

I agree with you 100% that oil is on the way out, but if fueling vehicles with hydrogen and other renewable resources is totally impossible, then I doubt that billions in R&D would go into this type of research annually. There were many people at different historical periods in time who believed that cars would never be able to break speeds of 100 kmph, or that rocket fuel would never be stable enough to get into space, but time and time again we manage to have amazing ingenuity.