<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012977877132241422</id><updated>2011-07-31T02:47:59.264-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Iran's Politics</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Amir H. Bakhtiary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13247284702387716388</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DYUXc2Od07g/S0eV6efwyiI/AAAAAAAAABQ/WgYCUAN8FEI/S220/MyPictureCropped.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012977877132241422.post-4110877036711874918</id><published>2009-10-09T08:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-09T09:55:52.199-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Solar vs Oil in Iranian politics: part two, capping the oil prices</title><content type='html'>In the last post we looked at the rising speed of solar power production rate. We pointed out that recently the production fo photovoltiac panels has seen a sharp rise and that every two years the production capacity of solar panels doubles. Today we will see how this rise will limit the price of oil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Given the situation a natural question rises: will this increasing rate of production last? Maybe the correct question should be if this rate can hold. Obviously the energy needs of our world, although overwhelming as it is, is limited, and if nothing else stops the exponential increase in solar power production lack of market demand will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now some may be pondering that indeed market demand will halt this trend; but mostly because solar will not be able to compete with oil energy prices. This may turn out to be true but it is not the scenario that we are interested in. Furthermore already there are speculations that grid parity will be reached by 2015.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grid parity is the point in time where the price of the electricity produced by solar panels in dollars per Mega watt equals the price of the electricity as is delivered by the electricity grid. When this point in time comes, it will be a profitable exercise to purchase photovoltaic panels put them on the roof and not only power your house but sell the excess to your local friendly electricity dealer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The scenario that we are looking for, and rather looking forward to, is where solar power becomes the dominant energy source. In this new world oil be mostly used in applications other than energy production and the price of energy will no longer be depended on oil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With oil production in abundance and solar rapidly eating up the energy slice, the price of oil will at best be capped to the price of energy produced by solar. This is because today's market shifts rapidly whenever the shift benefits it. Whenever the price of energy from oil rises above the price of energy from solar, the market will switch to solar and demand for oil will plung until the two prices are even.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the capping of oil prices, the fate of the countries producing oil will rest in the hands of the solar companies. We will look at these effects in the upcoming posts.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3012977877132241422-4110877036711874918?l=iranspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/4110877036711874918/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/10/solar-vs-oil-in-iranian-politics-part_09.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/4110877036711874918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/4110877036711874918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/10/solar-vs-oil-in-iranian-politics-part_09.html' title='Solar vs Oil in Iranian politics: part two, capping the oil prices'/><author><name>Amir H. Bakhtiary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13247284702387716388</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DYUXc2Od07g/S0eV6efwyiI/AAAAAAAAABQ/WgYCUAN8FEI/S220/MyPictureCropped.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012977877132241422.post-444628281661909772</id><published>2009-10-05T00:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-09T14:32:47.833-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Solar vs Oil in Iranian politics, part one, rise of solar revised</title><content type='html'>Solar power has been growing rapidly lately and I have a vision on how the rise of solar power will effect world politics including that of Iran. I have been lazy lately, but I will try to restart and this time, complete writing out my thoughts. So here we go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moore's law states that the number of transistors that can be place inexpensively on an integrated circuit has approximately doubled every two years [&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moores_law"&gt;ref&lt;/a&gt;]. In the effect of this exponential trend can be seen in a variety of trends. As a number of examples, the computational power of personal computers have been increasing exponentially, the amount of storage you can buy for the same amount of cash has been increasing rapidly, and price of digital goods have been falling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We would expect the same trend in photovoltaic technology. Although solar panels are not transistor based none the less they are silicon based and recently they too have been exhibiting the same vigorous research thrust. Furthermore with the help of governmental grants they have also been in demand in countries like Germany and Spain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, when we look at the numbers we can see that a exponential element does indeed exist in the amount of solar panels produced annually. In the last few years the total amount of panels produced in mega watts, has been doubling every two years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question is what will become of this exponential production rate ...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3012977877132241422-444628281661909772?l=iranspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/444628281661909772/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/10/solar-vs-oil-in-iranian-politics-part.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/444628281661909772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/444628281661909772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/10/solar-vs-oil-in-iranian-politics-part.html' title='Solar vs Oil in Iranian politics, part one, rise of solar revised'/><author><name>Amir H. Bakhtiary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13247284702387716388</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DYUXc2Od07g/S0eV6efwyiI/AAAAAAAAABQ/WgYCUAN8FEI/S220/MyPictureCropped.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012977877132241422.post-9141652349747050651</id><published>2009-06-20T09:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-20T12:02:08.904-07:00</updated><title type='text'>معرفی آدم بدی ها توسط تلویزیون</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;‫30 خرداد: بعد از حضور میلیونی مردم و درگیری های امروز که احتمالا خونین هم بوده است (هنوز خبرش به سمنان نرسیده، می گن سمنانی ها 5 سال 68 که گوشت گرون شد فهمیدن انقلاب شده) تلویزیون مصاحبه ای را با یکی از عواملین راهپیمایی ها انجام داد . تصویر قرمزی بر روی صفحه نقش بسته بود و صدای صحبت آقایی که نسبتا مست می زد با خانمی که لحجه ای بسیار لوس داشت همراه با زیر نویس پخش می شد:&lt;br /&gt;خانوم (مزدور و آدم بد که می خواهد همه را بکشد): سلام حالت خوبه چیکار می کنی؟&lt;br /&gt;آقا (فریب خورده منافق و گول خورده): من دارم آدم می کشم من منافقم.&lt;br /&gt;خانوم: عکساشون رو واسم می فرستی؟&lt;br /&gt;آقا: آره براتون می فرستم.&lt;br /&gt;خانوم: مرسی عزیزم تو بفرست من برات تو سی ان ان، ای بی سی،  یو تیوب ( و یه لیست کامل از تمامی مکان هایی که می توان اخبار سانسور نشده را گرفت)  پخش می کنم&lt;br /&gt;آقا: مرسی&lt;br /&gt;خانوم: راستی یه پیت بگیر توش پر بنزین کن، بنداز تو بانک ها آتیش بزن&lt;br /&gt;آقا: چشم&lt;br /&gt;خانوم: اوتوبوس رو وسط خیابون نگه دار آدمش رو پیاده کن آتیش بزن&lt;br /&gt;آقا: چشم&lt;br /&gt;خانوم: یه تعداد دیگه هم آدم بکش&lt;br /&gt;آقا: چشم&lt;br /&gt;بابا حداقل صدا و سیما می خواهد از اینجور کار های ساختگی بکنه یه جوری بکنه که نفهمیم!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3012977877132241422-9141652349747050651?l=iranspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/9141652349747050651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/06/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/9141652349747050651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/9141652349747050651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/06/blog-post.html' title='معرفی آدم بدی ها توسط تلویزیون'/><author><name>Amir H. Bakhtiary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13247284702387716388</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DYUXc2Od07g/S0eV6efwyiI/AAAAAAAAABQ/WgYCUAN8FEI/S220/MyPictureCropped.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012977877132241422.post-4752702304215267766</id><published>2009-04-18T06:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-18T07:03:16.921-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New roadmap</title><content type='html'>From now on I will only do English posts in this blog, and I'll take the Farsi posts to my personal blog since they are usually done to answer personal political arguments with my basiji friends.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3012977877132241422-4752702304215267766?l=iranspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/4752702304215267766/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-roadmap.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/4752702304215267766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/4752702304215267766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-roadmap.html' title='New roadmap'/><author><name>Amir H. Bakhtiary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13247284702387716388</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DYUXc2Od07g/S0eV6efwyiI/AAAAAAAAABQ/WgYCUAN8FEI/S220/MyPictureCropped.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012977877132241422.post-2117284350090827372</id><published>2009-04-09T13:34:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-09T14:59:49.850-07:00</updated><title type='text'>More politics behind the year of consumption reform سیاست نامگذاری سال اصلاح الگوی مصرف</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;There are those who believe that what Mr. Khamenei had in mind when he named this year "consumption reform" was the number of times we used the toilet flush, or the number lights that were turned on in the kitchen. I have to point out that 92% of the water use in Iran goes to agriculture while only 6% is used in houses (&lt;a href="http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/aglw/aquastat/countries/iran/main1.htm"&gt;ref&lt;/a&gt;). That is even if you use all the resources possible (yes you have to pay a price to be economical)  and achieve a hefty 50% reduction in your water use, that would at most (if everyone else did the same) result in a 3% reduction in the total water usage. So nooooooo my friends, this wasn't the reason why he chose the name. I still stand behind the opinion that he was politically backing Ahmadinejads newest ideas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;برای اونهایی که فکر می کنند که منظور آیت الله هنگام نامگذاری سال "اصلاح الگوی مصرف" کاهش تعداد بار استفاده از فلاش تانگ توالت ها و یا تعداد چراغ های روشن در آشپزخانه است باید بگویم که میزان مصرف آب در کشاورزی بالای 90 درصد کل مصرف آب درکشور هست. حتی اگه خیلی هم هزینه کنی (بله برای صرفه جویی باید هزینه کرد. مینیممش گوشت مرغه! برو تا توالت جدید: http://www.gizmag.com/go/6012 دیوار های جدید، یا حتی کلا خونه جدید.) ماکسیمم 50 درصد. این 50 درصد هم ترجمه می شه به 3 درصد کل (اگه کل مملکت خونه هاشون رو نو کنن البته!). یعنی آخرش ماکزیمم کاری که کردی ترقیب به فضای ملکوتی و درگاه خدا بوده نه پیش برد اقتصادی (که شاید هم با هزینه ها پس بردی) مملکت. نمی گم که بده ولی من هنوزم نظرم اینه که هدف اصلی ایشون سیاسی (و حمایت از احمدی نژاد ) بوده است.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3012977877132241422-2117284350090827372?l=iranspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/2117284350090827372/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/04/more-politics-behind-year-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/2117284350090827372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/2117284350090827372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/04/more-politics-behind-year-of.html' title='More politics behind the year of consumption reform سیاست نامگذاری سال اصلاح الگوی مصرف'/><author><name>Amir H. Bakhtiary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13247284702387716388</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DYUXc2Od07g/S0eV6efwyiI/AAAAAAAAABQ/WgYCUAN8FEI/S220/MyPictureCropped.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012977877132241422.post-1915680741490112661</id><published>2009-04-09T04:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-09T05:00:39.958-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear government دولت عزیز</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;persian political poems :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;استعدادی شاعری من گل کرد، اگه عزیزی ادامه ویا تغییر خوبی برای شعرهای زیر در نظر داره، بگه تا اصلاحش کنم:&lt;br /&gt;‫ای دولت عزیز که جانم فدای تو،&lt;br /&gt;قربان سیب زمینی و عدس و لوبیای تو،&lt;br /&gt;خر کردی انجمن عزیزان این زمین&lt;br /&gt;با سکه و هویج و خالی بندیای تو،&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;آب و برق و گاز و خورشید و فلک خاموشند --- تا تو رایی به کف آری و به غفلت ندهی.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3012977877132241422-1915680741490112661?l=iranspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/1915680741490112661/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/04/dear-government.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/1915680741490112661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/1915680741490112661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/04/dear-government.html' title='Dear government دولت عزیز'/><author><name>Amir H. Bakhtiary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13247284702387716388</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DYUXc2Od07g/S0eV6efwyiI/AAAAAAAAABQ/WgYCUAN8FEI/S220/MyPictureCropped.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012977877132241422.post-7848731169509105761</id><published>2009-04-07T07:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-09T05:18:33.849-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The politics behind the year of consumption reform سیاست نام گذاری سال اصلاح الگوی مصرف</title><content type='html'>During the last five (ten is correct) years a tradition has been taken up by the Iranian supreme leader to name each year for a cause. Although the idea is lame by itself, since it further pushes the thinking that the supreme leader has a divine side, it is made lamer every year by the supreme leaders choice of names. This year the name &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;consumption reform&lt;/span&gt; was chosen. The name is lame for two reasons, firstly because it serves to backup ahmadinejads latest economical change agenda.&lt;br /&gt;The supreme leader in Iran is meant to be a politically neutral figure and this is more than shown by the actions of the late Imam Komeini. As Komeini had already understood, and as Khamenei fails to grasp, this is because the political siding of the leader puts a bias on the choice of the people and makes the elections unfair which in the long term leads to an inefficient govermental system. Furthermore by doing this Khamenei imposes his view against the parliment which further supresses the choice of the people.&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, another reason for the lameness of the choice is that ahmadinejads agenda is too late and its effects will not be observed in his term but far of during the next president.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;‫‫‫سال 1387 سال «نوآوری و شکوفایی» -&lt;br /&gt;- سال ‪ ۱۳۸۶‬سال «اتحاد ملی و انسجام اسلامی»&lt;br /&gt;ـ سال ‪ ۱۳۸۵‬سال «پیامبر اعظم (ص)»&lt;br /&gt;ـ سال ‪ ۱۳۸۴‬سال «همبستگی و مشاركت عمومی»&lt;br /&gt;ـ سال ۱۳۸۳‬سال «پاسخگویی سه قوه به ملت ایران»&lt;br /&gt;ـ سال ‪ ۱۳۸۲‬سال «نهضت خدمت‌گذاری»&lt;br /&gt;ـ سال ‪ ۱۳۸۱‬سال «عزت و افتخار حسینی»&lt;br /&gt;ـ سال ‪ ۱۳۸۰‬سال «اقتدار ملی و اشتغال آفرینی»&lt;br /&gt;ـ سال ‪ ۱۳۷۹‬سال «امیرالمومنین (ع )» Imam Ali&lt;br /&gt;ـ سال ‪ ۱۳۷۸‬سال «امام خمینی (ره)» Imam Khomeini&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;‫چند سالی است که رهبر انقلاب سنت نام گذاری سالها را براه انداخته است. این سیاست خود کلی ضایع است بدلیل اینکه جایگاه مقدس آیت الله را بیش از پیش اعمال می کند (یه چیزهم با اسم " صندلی مقدس است یا شخص" باید بنویسم) ولی نام های انتخاب شده نیز خود به ضایعی موضوع می افزاید. ضایعی انتخاب به دو دلیل می باشد. دلیل اول این است که این اسم گذاری در حمایت از سیاست گذاری های احمدی نژاد می باشد.&lt;br /&gt;رهبر در ایران باید جایگاهی باشد که از لحاظ سیاسی خنثی است و این را می توان در کردار امام خمینی مشاهده کرد. چیزی که امام خمینی متوجه شده بود ولی آقای خامنه ای نمی تواند متوجه بشود این است که عملکرد جانبدارانه موجب  تبغیض در انتخابات می باشد و در بلند مدت این موجب  نا کاربردی مجموعه دولت و مجلس می شود.&lt;br /&gt;دلیل دومی ضایعی این انتخاب ناشی از ضایعی سیاست های احمدی نژاد می باشد. آقای رهبر حداقل از سیاست هایی حمایت کند که در بلند مدت به ضرر مردم ایران نباشد.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3012977877132241422-7848731169509105761?l=iranspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/7848731169509105761/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/04/politics-behind-year-of-consumption.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/7848731169509105761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/7848731169509105761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/04/politics-behind-year-of-consumption.html' title='The politics behind the year of consumption reform سیاست نام گذاری سال اصلاح الگوی مصرف'/><author><name>Amir H. Bakhtiary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13247284702387716388</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DYUXc2Od07g/S0eV6efwyiI/AAAAAAAAABQ/WgYCUAN8FEI/S220/MyPictureCropped.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012977877132241422.post-4692124690600656274</id><published>2009-04-06T13:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T08:23:14.501-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Solar politics vs oil politics part one: rise of solar سیاست انرژی خورشیدی برابر سیاست نفتی، قسمت اول: برخاست انرژی خورشیدی</title><content type='html'>Flash memory devices, cpus and many more transistor based devices have long been following moore's curve(&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law"&gt;ref&lt;/a&gt;). For example cpu computation power and flash memory capacity have all nearly doubled every 18 month. But the photovoltaic devices have been far from such success. Just take a look at the price of solar energy over the past 6 or 7 years (&lt;a href="http://www.solarbuzz.com/SolarPrices.htm"&gt;ref&lt;/a&gt;) , they have been rock steady. But why?&lt;br /&gt;The story with solar panels is quite different from flash memories; you really can't double the conversion percentage of solar panels every so often because there is hard upper limit; that is the %100 mark. But solar panels are electronic goods in demand so its only fair that they ride some exponential curve.&lt;br /&gt;In fact if you search well enough you can find two exp. curves that the solar panels have been riding.  The first is a 4% curve, steady drop in solar energy prices during the last 15 years and the second is an increased production rate of nearly twice every two years(&lt;a href="http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/2639.html"&gt;ref&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3012977877132241422-4692124690600656274?l=iranspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/4692124690600656274/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/04/solar-politics-vs-oil-politics-part-one.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/4692124690600656274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/4692124690600656274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/04/solar-politics-vs-oil-politics-part-one.html' title='Solar politics vs oil politics part one: rise of solar سیاست انرژی خورشیدی برابر سیاست نفتی، قسمت اول: برخاست انرژی خورشیدی'/><author><name>Amir H. Bakhtiary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13247284702387716388</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DYUXc2Od07g/S0eV6efwyiI/AAAAAAAAABQ/WgYCUAN8FEI/S220/MyPictureCropped.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012977877132241422.post-5780395771932542627</id><published>2009-04-05T09:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-05T12:29:12.304-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pyongyang's satellite ماهواره پیونگ یانگ</title><content type='html'>Not very long after Tehran launched its own satellite into orbit, did Pyongyang follow the same path. One has to keep in mind that, for these rejected governments, the benefits of uncovering such technologies is two folds. Firstly there is the obvious deterrent message that comes with the technology. Secondly, and maybe more importantly, there is the propaganda mechanism that uses these advances as leverage.&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately people, in Iran at least, don't realize that reaching such technologies can be deemed successful only if the benefits outweigh the costs. And the media nearly never mentions the costs of these programmes. Although the cost of these programmes are never unveiled but we can always look at the economy and see what course of action would have been correct in the past.&lt;br /&gt;For example, last summer, we had frequent power shortages in the whole country which led to severe problems in the industry, health care and the daily life of ordinary people. Now the question is which is more important, having a satellite up there beeping away or a healthy and predictable economy in which the society can advance. For me the sane would choose the latter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;‫ترجمه متن عینا نخواهد بود:&lt;br /&gt;پیونگ یانگ هم ماهواره فرستاد و حالا عضو معدود کشوری های است که به این تکنولوژی خفن دست پیدا کرده است. تا حالا فکر کردید که چرا هر چی کشور در پیت ماهواره می فرسته؟ تا حالا فکر کردین چرا کشورهایی مثل نوروژ سوئد و یا کلی کشور دیگه که عدد 3 را پسوند نمی کشند دنبال این تکنولوژی خفن نرفتن؟ تا حالا فکر کردید که چرا سال پیش قیمت نفت سر به فلک کشیده بود ولی ما آب نداشتیم، برق نداشتیم آب نداشتیم. خب حالا سعی کنید که قطعات این جورچین رو کنار هم بگذارید.&lt;br /&gt;بله عزیزان فرستادن یه موشک که بالاش یه ماهواره باشه کار هزینه بری هست.  اغلب کشورهای صنعتی هم جهت انجام اینکار با پرداخت مقدار بسیار اندکی پول به کشورهایی که این تکنولوژی را دارند ماهواره های خود را پرتاب می کنند. همان طور که روسیه قرار بود ماهواره ایران را پرتاب کند، ولی به دلیل دیپلماسی های احمدی نژادی این اتفاق نیافتاد. در واقع پرتاب ماهواره توسط ایران قبل از اینکه نشان گر پیشرفت تکنولوژیکی ما باشد، نشان گر طرد شدن ما از همه طرف می باشد.&lt;br /&gt;‫در نهایت دوست دارم اشاره کنم که اولین ماهواره بیش از 50 سال پیش توسط روسیه منحل شده پرتاب شد.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3012977877132241422-5780395771932542627?l=iranspolitics.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/feeds/5780395771932542627/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/04/pyongyangs-satellite.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/5780395771932542627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3012977877132241422/posts/default/5780395771932542627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iranspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/04/pyongyangs-satellite.html' title='Pyongyang&apos;s satellite ماهواره پیونگ یانگ'/><author><name>Amir H. 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