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My experience isn't with web forum software specifically, but it occurs to me that moving older posts to an alternate (archive) instance would be useful. Archive searches would still be slower, but cu ...

Efficiency isn't what's keeping me from covering my roof with solar cells. It's cost/watt that holds me back.

I'm sure that for some applications, efficiency is a bigger deal, but cost and scalabil ...

We have to remember that our ideas are not the same thing as our 'selves'. It is easy to tie our identities to our beliefs, as I well understand. In the end, winning or losing an argument doesn't real ...

Watch how Bernanke can barely contain his contempt as he replies.
I'm sure this was also in his mind:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-2755

"H.R. 2755: To abolish the Board of G ...

If you think about it, if TSHTF you can build a wind generator from a few essentials like car alternaters, metal rods (like allthread), car batteries, jerry rigged blades, rv inverters and several fee ...

I agree that it's about time. However, a while back I would have thought that such an event might mean that PO would get wider attention. Now, I have more of a wait-and-see attitude. We'll see...

Odds are very good that the house could benefit from additional soffit vents. I doubt the landlord would object to this, if done correctly.

I bought a 12V gable fan from Home Depot and attached it ...

Good work.

We dropped our electricity usage (cooling is our biggest user) about 25% last year vs. the previous year by doing many of the same things. We still have more to do, though the next 25% m ...

The solution to the problem is, of course, more consumption...

Wasn't Hitler a vegetarian? This is the kind of irony that hurts my head Confused

No, he was not.

The alternative to factory death meat and ridiculous veganism is
I was going to respond to this by saying, "yeah, but..." Then you posted this:

Okay. If you live in a city or the suburbs and have ...

I was referring to very certain doomers actually.
Then why use an ambiguous term, then?

Selective perception is common to many people. I noticed that the higher the personal engagement in one of t ...

It's also about selecting the appropriate "facts" which agree with one's own position, and to prove wrong anyone who might disagree.

you have pretty precisely described, how doomers work. But ...

JD's blog had a very specific and completely moronic agenda: to debunk the theory of peak oil. You can debate the timing, the rate of decline, and the human implications but can't deny it. Geologic fa ...

I presume this is the source of that graphic (image link is at the bottom):
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2399972.html

And the larger report that the times references:
http://www.news ...