Peak oil” refers to the future decline in world production of crude oil and to the accompanying potentially calamitous effects. The majority of the literature on peak oil is non-economic and ignores price effects even when analyzing policies. Unfortunately, most economic models of depletable resources do not generate production peaks. I present four models which generate production peaks in equ...

Spectrally modulated Airy-based pulses peak amplitude modulation (PAM) in linear dispersive media is investigated, designed, and numerically simulated. As it is shown here, it is possible to design the spectral modulation of the initial Airy-based pulses to obtain a pre-defined PAM profile as the pulse propagates. Although optical pulses self-amplitude modulation is a well-known effect under no...

The PEAK project at the University of Alberta is a radical attempt to understand world knowledge in terms of a minimal ontology of sensori-motor experience. Experience is defined as the time sequence of low-level signals passing back and forth between the AI agent and its world at some relatively fast rate, say 100 times a second. The signals passing from the world to the agent are termed sensa...