Number of comments: 0 Part of the problem here lies in the fact that the word theory has two distinctly different meanings.
In science, the word theory is used to denote "a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of" [...]
Number of comments: 0 We just recently moved after looking for what seemed like forever for our new home. What a pain in the butt...! After arranging a million different details, then we still have to confront the actual move itself. We went with the rent a ruck & hire individuals method this time, [...]
Number of comments: 1 Sorry to serial-rant, but I should say that I think there is actually some hope in all of this.... . I should also explain that I used to work in one of those places where the incumbent technology was about 40 years old, the sales cycle for innovative products was [...]
Number of comments: 2 Quote:Just to stay even with where we are today, and keep our total unemployed number stable, we'd have to add 144,000 jobs a month.
Well, the population growth thing is a two edged sword, naturally, because population growth also equals "more customers"....
Number of comments: 0 laissez-faire economics... Keynesian fiscal policies...
Social Darwinism anyone?
Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)
Quote:The core belief of free-marketeers is that people should be free to do what they want in life as long as they don't harm anyone else. They say that on the whole, society's problems [...]
Number of comments: 0 So not long ago I laundered my BlackBerry. I was just washing a load of laundry, and found my BlackBerry Curve staring up at me from the bottom of the washing machine with a look of sad resignation on it's face. Just as a note for future cell phone treatments,' [...]
Number of comments: 0 No. The US experience is vastly different than that of other nations owing to the ability of citizenry to own mineral rights, which has created a whole class of minor scale operators who have no analogue in any other producing nation.
Number of comments: 0 So I've been recovering at home in what I assume is the traditional fashion.
No unexpected complications to relate... just the healing process. Had my first follow-ups with surgeons & cardiologists which seem to have gone well, so it seems like these folks have saved my bacon, as it' [...]
Number of comments: 0 Heart Surgery In a couple hours [peakoil.com]Page 1 of 5Author: Aaron [ Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:28 am ]Post subject: Heart Surgery In a couple hoursWell here I go again... into the stint lab for peek at my arteries. I'm sitting in my hospital room just waiting for them' [...]
Quote:If Congress chooses to take charge of its constitutional duty, it could similarly use greenback currency created by the Federal Reserve as a legitimate channel for financing important public projects -- like sorely needed improvements to the nation's infrastructure. Obviously, this has to be' [...]
Number of comments: 0 Tanada Post subject: Re: Why is nuclear power so successful and popular in France?Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:47 am Expert Joined: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:00 am Posts: 4766 Location: West [...]
Number of comments: 1 May 19, 2009 Letter from a Dodge dealer
letter to the editor My name is George C. Joseph. I am the sole owner of Sunshine Dodge-Isuzu, a family owned and operated business in Melbourne, Florida. My family bought and paid for this automobile franchise 35 years ago in 1974. [...]
Number of comments: 0 My father is 85, born as a menonite farmer during the depression, was going to be a preacher until he went to World War II were he met my irreverent Italian mother whom he married and brought back to the US. He dropped religion and became an athiest even though [...]
Number of comments: 0 Quote: I wonder if a tea party Party could be formed out of this
...yeah, right. This stuff happens every few years.... and never accomplishes anything, because in the famous words of Howard Ruff, Americans have figured out how to vote themselves benefits out of the federal treasury, and [...]
Number of comments: 0 All pension schemes, be they GM, Social Security or 401K are not supportable in the long term without perpetual growth. The longer a company is in business, the more retired workers it generates. You need to keep increasing the number of new workers and the size of the business to [...]
Number of comments: 0 Quote:While the American International Group comes under fire from Congress over executive bonuses, it is quietly fighting the federal government for the return of $306 million in tax payments, some related to deals that were conducted through offshore tax havens.
A.I.G. sued the government last month in a bid [...]
Number of comments: 1 Rockman has come up with a startling view of the near term future for natural gas in the US. He said he was ok with me starting a thread on this very important matter. Here are some of his quotes from the neighboring thread on drilling:
Number of comments: 0 Congress, please listen: The Truth is that we now require about $5 of debt to generate $1 of GDP.
The Truth is that the reason you were not asked to approve $700 billion to capitalize 10 new banks, thereby creating seven trillion in lending capacity is that the economy [...]
Number of comments: 0 Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:48 pm Yeah... in '05 The Great Depression, which began in late 1929 and lasted for about a decade, was the worst economic downturn in U.S. history, and one which spread to virtually all of the industrialized world. The coming Grand Depression will be no less' [...]
Number of comments: 1 The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits "debt servitude." The 13th Amendment prohibits the use of "fear" and "intimidation" to coerce payment of debts. The prohibition of debt servitude includes peonage. For a primer, read this wiki on it:
Number of comments: 0 I started this all off by thinking about food preparation. I was packing corn in Mylar bags and got to thinking that none of my neighbors were doing this, and that few of them would know what to do with it, and that even fewer have the tools to do [...]
Number of comments: 1 So I have been tracking the activities of industries directly related to peak oil, including associated environmental remediation markets as an indicator of where we really stand in confronting the massive environmental challenges ahead of us.
If there is anything that the so called "free market" system does well, [...]
Number of comments: 0 As humans, we tend to be very shortsighted; driven by short-term gains. We live for today and assume tomorrow will take care of itself. The first thing we must learn to do as humans and custodians of the future is to consider the impact of our present actions on that [...]
Number of comments: 0 Our Money System and Oil Depletion; Are they Compatible? "Houston, we have a problem." The world's present industrial civilization is saddled with a dilemma: how can a debt-based monetary system based upon infinite growth in a finite world deal with resource depletion? Quote me and answer that question with' [...]
Number of comments: 0 According to the most recent EIA chart below, Saudi net oil exports have fallen more than 1 million bpd average, from 9,095,559 bpd average in 2005 to 7,925,464 bpd average in 2007:
And so far, it appears that Saudi total oil production [...]
Number of comments: 0 “The U.S. has huge amounts of untapped oil, but pesky politicians and environmentalists won't let us get it.” That’s the indignant cry we hear over morning coffee these days.
So, George Bush proposes we roll-back the ban on off-shore drilling to ease oil prices.
Number of comments: 1 What does mainstream mean anyway?
From wikipedia:
Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. It was coined in the 1920s with the advent of [...]
Number of comments: 1 Often overlooked in the grand scheme of things, is the dependency of oil producers on their own products.
We tend to look at the downstream effect of higher oil prices on the various markets which are dependent on the products refined from oil. If this logic is correct, that [...]
China has quietly accumulated nearly a 1% stake in BP to help secure its oil supply to fuel rapid economic growth. The silent investment from China has come to the attention of Downing Street, which has been monitoring the situation carefully.
Chalk up another convert from the oil bear camp: The U.S. Energy Information Administration has given up on seeing double-digit oil prices this year, and says $100 oil—and loads of volatility in crude markets—is the “new norm.” That’s a sudden shift from the $87 barrel [...]
Last week the price of crude oil broke new records, running about $110 a barrel. That's well above the previous record (in inflation-adjusted dollars) reached in 1980 after the revolution in Iran resulted in the nationalization of its oil.
Since tanks of crude are full to brimming, many traders' [...]
Number of comments: 0 Veteran oil industry financier paints grim picture of resource scarcity, derailed global growth; others disagree WASHINGTON -- Matt Simmons sounds the alarm like the Cassandra of the oil industry, warning that crude production has peaked and that looming energy shortages could derail global growth and even spark armed conflict.
Number of comments: 0 Resource scarcity puts tremendous pressure on markets around the globe by forcing the relative value of currency used to trade these commodity resources lower. Or more simply put, inflation causes your money to be worth less as prices increase.
This basic tenet of economic behavior set me to researching [...]
Number of comments: 0 The foreign exchange (currency or forex or FX) market exists wherever one currency is traded for another. It is by far the largest financial market in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, multinational corporations, [...]
The following document is intended to outline specific skill sets and experiences, which will be useful in determining appropriate expectations of capabilities, track record, and performance goals. This is a living document, which changes over [...]
People find that they can now obtain the useful information they need before buying a new hybrid or alternative fuel vehicle online from informative websites such as CarSeek.com. Whether they are looking to save money by driving a more fuel efficient vehicle or are [...]
Number of comments: 0 China poured a gigaton (billion tons) of concrete last year & is building 500 coal-fired power plants (many unlicensed with no scrubbing at all). You cannot legislate intent.
The USGS, CERA - Lynch, Yergin etc... all contend that oil discovery is going to follow that green line in this graph. That's the basis for them predicting Peak Oil at 2030 or later.
Why? Because if any known energy sources compared favorably with convention oil, or even equalled oil's qualities as an energy source, we would see massive implementations of these technologies today. It's what the cornucopians are always saying... the market is the most efficient way to bring new technology "online".
“It’s the fifth time to my count that we’ve gone through a period when it seemed the end of oil was near and people were talking about the exhaustion of resources,” said Daniel Yergin, the chairman of Cambridge Energy and author of a Pulitzer [...]
CleanHouston is hosting a screening for End of Suburbia @ Rice University in Houston Texas.
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 @ 7pm- 9pm Location: Rice Media Center, Rice University, 6100 Main St. , Houston, TX 77006 (Rice Cinema is located on the Rice University campus, inside of Entrance No. [...]
Number of comments: 2 Anecdotal evidence is generally speaking a poor measure of reality, since it involves extrapolating from individual pieces of evidence.
That said, here's my anecdotal observation. Peakoil.com seems to be the target of an increased corporate troll presence.
As part of our normal procedures we "look the other way" [...]
I had the distinct honor of spending time with the late Dr. Richard Smalley at his office on Rice University's campus in 2004 (Bad Audio Recording of Interview). Smalley & his team are credited with discovering Bucky Balls & Nano Tubes, for which he won the Nobel Prize [...]
The man whose work inspired the recent Billary 1984 video wrote the following short story which speaks directly to our "modern" social condition.
It's about his favorite topic... groupthink.
What's most interesting of course, is the fact that we don't yet know who produced the controversial video which simultaneously makes Billary look [...]
On March 5, 2007, The New York Times published an article entitled Oil Innovations Pump New Life Into Old Wells, by Times correspondent Jad Mouawad.
The title of the article referred to recent increases in oil extraction from older oil fields, noting: Within the last decade, technology advances have [...]
Number of comments: 7 For many perhaps most Americans, the last twelve months have been pleasant, prosperous, and abundant. We had a brief excursion to $3.00 per gallon gasoline, but the lack of hurricanes and the prospect of a mild winter let us enjoy a respite from high energy costs. The housing [...]
On Easter Island, the inhabitants used much of their forest in a project to build and place great stone figures images, we may suppose, of Gods. More formally, they invested labor and resources in a project they thought would produce a return of some sort. Did they think their [...]
One of the continuing themes in Peak Oil is trying to predict the moment when peak oil hits. While arguably a pointless exercise, there is some intellectual pride involved in naming the instant when we transition from growing to dwindling energy availability. So, even though we cannot know when [...]
Number of comments: 2 The discussion of Peak Oil mitigation often assumes that other technologies will offset the flow of energy from oil. Unfortunately, inexpensive energy has masked trends that may create a multiplier effect for peak oil problems.
Earths expanding population of 6.5 billion seems headed to 9 billion, and the existing [...]
I just heard David Goodstein give a lecture at MIT. It's a good thing I got there early because the snack table and all available classroom seats were both quickly depleted. I mean it was packed. People covered all available floor space and stood out in the hallway.
Number of comments: 12 Earnest was my grandfather's name.
Almost everyone loves and respects their grandparents of course, but he was, bar none the best example of how to live your life as I have ever encountered. Seen through the loving granddad-colored glasses to be sure, but I have never met anyone who [...]
And from a wide variety of sources from fiction, to history, to historical fiction; & more recently technical papers on the geology of oil production & exploration of all things.
Like many of you, I'm more than a little interested [...]
Tanada Post subject: Re: Why is nuclear power so successful and popular in France?Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:47 am Expert 
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