Robot support -Cybernetic integration goes further into supporting the structure of workers ageing bodies

Japan researchers unveil robot suit for farmers - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Interesting implications for labour and manual work as workers become older and more prone to injuries.This seems to be an interesting solution and further down the cyborg track physically.There are some interesting implications though.These are in the areas of longetivity of working life,descrimination based on age and retirement because of bad physical incapacity.This disrupts and ends to some degree some of these issues whilst creating new social ones eg extending working life in the physical spheres,the impacts of ill health and lack of fitness....will ther need to be such a focus of a robot exoskeleton of some sort supports or takes care of the strength needs?workers comp?What would be your liabilities if the 'robot' did it and you sustained an injury as a result of malfunction...Interesting anyway.

BP Cut greenhouse in 2008 but cancel industrial projects in Kwinana

Bloomberg.com: Australia & New Zealand
The conundrum of cutting greenhouse but not producing jobs can be seen clearly here in BP s approach.Environmentally sustainable but not necessarily able to meet the commercial or social sustainability challenges perhaps overall in these tough economic times.Interesting also is the failure of the proposed storage of coal pollutants for locking away in rock storage was not possible or viable.This especially highlighted when one looks at the closing of BP solar in Australia for more offshore production.