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Carrie, that 70% water you refer to is salt-water (brine). You know it's toxic to drink.

Desalinization doesn't work because it requires gobs of energy. There's simply too many people using too m ...

For crying out loud, we live on a planet that is 70% covered in water, and we have water problems? Chemical engineer Kamalesh Sirkar, PhD, a distinguished professor at New Jersey Institute of Technolo ...

Hey Carrie, this is not original Seattle Times, but Chicago Trib's excellent series, with great Flash video files, by Paul Salopek, named Oil Safari, about 2,5 weeks old, and worth reading and watchin ...

Did anyone catch this comment in the Seattle Times article "Oil-addicted America finds a temporary fix in Africa", that was posted as a news item?

With crude prices soaring into orbit, powerful peo ...

We had a power outage in our area yesterday, in San Jose. Started about 2:30pm & didn't come back on until 8pm, then went out again at 10pm.

During the outage I ran to the local grocery store, ...

Is it just me, or does this not look good for California?:

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I'm still around. Wink

I've calmed down a bit too...

Looks like this report has made it into the mainstream press - the Telegraph is covering it now. I wonder how the markets will react (as if they don't have enough to think about already!):
The United ...

we were poking around the cliffs in Carpenteria on the Central Coast of Calif. and found what looked like cabbage-family plants--maybe naturalized kale or brussel sprouts? do you know what they are?
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On my hikes this spring around the Bay Area, I nibbled on Miner's Lettuce. There's a ton that grows along the trail in shady areas here, not sure what other parts of the country it grows in. It got it ...

Do those curbs apply in the commodity exchanges ? It is that area of the market which has been most volatile recently. Also there have been some pretty spectacular dives in the valuations in some ...

Um, so whatever happened to these supposed megaprojects that were going to boost supply around this time period?

More fun. Looks like the chickens are finally coming home to roost...
Global markets are bracing for turmoil today after an ominous slide in the US dollar and a slump in equity and bond prices late l ...

It looks like the 2007 peak in the BusinessWeek chart is just for the major oil companies - I don't think it includes production by countries.

Stick with silver or gold. The Straight Dope has an article on the whole De Beers diamond racket:
Dear Cecil:

I have heard that diamond prices are held at an artificially high price by the De Beer ...