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Topic: Make the "What Is Peak Oil" link text bigger |
BW
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Forum: Suggestion Box Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:37 pm Subject: Re: Make the "What Is Peak Oil" link text bigger |
The typo is not fixed yet.
A site with the name PeakOil has the definition wrong on the home page?
Other uninformed people pick this up and continue to spread the mis-information. |
Topic: [Location] Where to live post peak |
BW
Replies: 857
Views: 61208
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:16 pm Subject: Re: Top Ten Peak Oil Places To Live |
| I prefer to think there will be places where the glass is half full and there can still be a society with industrial capability. Such a place will have rail and water transport , agricultural product ... |
Topic: DOE predicts gasoline shortages |
BW
Replies: 22
Views: 3062
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:09 pm Subject: Re: DOE predicts gasoline shortages |
This guy on the oildrum addresses the DOE/SAIC/Hirsch report and it's convenient omission of increased rail usage to reduce liquid fuel use.
http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/8/25/91113/9720#55
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Topic: Growing rice question? |
BW
Replies: 12
Views: 1221
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:33 pm Subject: Re: Growing rice question? |
| http://www.calrice.org/ |
Topic: German wind turbine maker to build first U.S. plant in Iowa |
BW
Replies: 19
Views: 1992
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:25 pm Subject: Re: German wind turbine maker to build first U.S. plant in I |
Firstly, I do not know, nor believe that Seimens is the only producer of wind turbines in the US; ...
Suzlon Energy Ltd., of India is building a blade factory in Pipestone, Minnesota.
http://www ... |
Topic: BP Beyond Point? |
BW
Replies: 13
Views: 2001
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:09 pm Subject: Re: BP Beyond Point? |
| Brazen Prevarication |
Topic: Cashing in on Silver |
BW
Replies: 17
Views: 2046
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:27 pm Subject: Re: Cashing in on Silver |
| What if silver goes to $100 per ounce or even $1000 per ounce. Selling that 1,000 ounce bar may be difficult, finding someone with the money or hiding under the radar. Much easier to sell dimes and ... |
Topic: Countdown to $100 oil |
BW
Replies: 21
Views: 3206
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:28 pm Subject: Re: Countdown to $100 oil |
| Assuming the years before a projection year are history, the North American gas supply to the US peaked in 2002. The 2005 projection was the last optimistic projection of an increase in the near futu ... |
Topic: hobby farmers |
BW
Replies: 20
Views: 3361
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:57 am Subject: hobby farmers |
I have been mulling the amount of land I should garden/farm post peak.
I was raised on a farm and have great respect for the ability of the farmer to survive by making a profit. I became an engine ... |
Topic: The Coming Peak Oil Grand Depression |
BW
Replies: 158
Views: 44654
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:17 pm Subject: The Coming Peak Oil Grand Depression |
| The target of the next world war may be the US. You get the greatest world energy demand destruction per fatality by thinning out or eliminating the US population. |
Topic: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil world) |
BW
Replies: 2116
Views: 298563
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:58 pm Subject: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil world) |
In the arid west, you buy water rights with land attached to the water rights. Land without water rights is just sand or rock and not worth anything.
Land in the Yakima Valley is under a mix of se ... |
Topic: Investment Allocation for 2005/2006 |
BW
Replies: 54
Views: 10022
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:45 pm Subject: Investment Allocation for 2005/2006 |
In the last two months I have changed my investment mix to
50% international oil companies,
20% Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) inside the IRA,
20 % foreign stocks (SE Asia ... |
Topic: What is the maximum price of oil that the world can sustain? |
BW
Replies: 103
Views: 19565
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Forum: Geopolitics Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:11 pm Subject: What is the maximum price of oil that the world can sustain? |
| In the 1970's, a recession was defined as you are unemployed and a depression is I am unemployed. The transition to a recession or depression is not a step function but happens with one or more (1,00 ... |
Topic: types of land - homesteading |
BW
Replies: 10
Views: 1766
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 6:09 pm Subject: types of land - homesteading |
Posted today Jan 8 on another site:
http://goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=17107
In Missouri, 196 acres or 28 acres. Cropland, ponds, well, small house for what looks like a good price ... |
Topic: What is the maximum price of oil that the world can sustain? |
BW
Replies: 103
Views: 19565
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Forum: Geopolitics Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 9:07 pm Subject: What is the maximum price of oil that the world can sustain? |
$1,000 a bbl for oil is not off the wall. $1,000 a bbl is $25 a gallon. A gallon of diesel fuel will produce 20 HP-hours of work or $1.25 per HP-hr with $1,000 per bbl fuel.
A man working hard ca ... |
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