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I agree completely, build a better battery and we can start to have a different grid. Every house a consumer and a producer. Batteries of different kinds or small distribution centers. We have put ...

One of those North Antelope coal photos shows a good argument against the creationists' single event. The main seam of coal at the bottom of the pit is overlain by lighter coloured rocks, but there ar ...

I was trying to find prices of other nuclear powerplants built here, but its hard to find any numbers from communistic era and instead, I found disturbing information about major nuclear accidents tha ...

When most of central America lives on less than $3/day, wouldn't $200/month ($6/day) be a bit of a step up?

Some of our oil comes from polluting Nigerian villages; if we're OK with that, what's wro ...

If you look at a "typical" USA power grid like:
http://www.caiso.com/outlook/SystemStatus.html
you will see there is plenty of demand during the middle of the day, and much less in the wee hours ...

is that on the assumption we use cheap energy to make these solar panels ? Razz

Considering most utilities charge manufacturers involved in the production process more than 8 cents/kwh in the first p ...

Here's the World Nuclear Association's take.

They project a huge shortfall.

Definitely not. The WNA's take is

(a) there might be temporary shortfalls in supply, due to failure in plann ...

if china is buying all the american t-bills. And they only get 1 or 2% on their investment and they have to wait 6 months until this investment matures. What happens if the dollar slides in value duri ...

There will be a central bank, most probably in Asia, who will start the move away from the dollar and when it happens, you're going to see other central bankers covertly trying to follow. The move wil ...

You can upgrade the bitumen in one of two ways: add hydrogen, or remove carbon. Some of the Alberta operations remove carbon, leaving behind huge piles of petroleum coke, or "petcoke", which is mostl ...

I'm not on board with Monte and his ideas for the most part... not that that's good or bad or anything, it's just that the two of us don't see eye to eye on this whole topic.
Monte does a great job o ...

If you cut the jobs because you don't have the energy, where does the energy come from to remploy them?

Monte,

Out of curiosity, how did we employ 100 million people back in 1900 when we had a ...

Nice chart. Economics is not a mathematical science, but a social science. Anytime you try writing an equation to describe the behaviors of humans, you are blinding yourself. I realize what I am ...

Nonsense, they would play manipulative little games to try and drive out the weakest investing hands, grabbing up as much wealth for themselves as possible before the whole economy goes right off the ...

I am not seeing $40 oil any time soon, unless there is a recession, but that is not one of his reasons. Lynch predicts $40 oil every year I think, maybe eventually he will get lucky.

Has he given ...