A cool Google Maps mashup - again - detailing the highest peaks in each state.

Looks like I've been to the highest - California's Whitney - but that still leaves a lot of peaks unexplored!!

From World Changing, how always-on web 2.0 services, mixed together, are creating some great monitoring tools.  In this case, Google Maps mashed up with satellite and ground sensor data.

The graf and summary is at Daily Kos, which then points to the meat of the article.

Here's the basics on Peak Oil.

I wonder though - with the oil that can be extracted from shale, although again NOT cheap at all, in the success of biodiesel in South American (can't find a link right now...), with the ability to harvest "clean coal" in Montana (Note: I'll believe it when I see it), there are alternatives, but  again, the alternatives mean the end of CHEAP oil.