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$739 Billion? Holy cow that is gonna be one big friggin' helicpoter.

People don't really "walk away", they simply don't pay and hold out for as long as they can until kicked out. This is all planned out to get as much for free while they can. They don't declare bankr ...

I agree with Puplava simply because I see no way the US can pay off its debts without inflating its money. If delation comes along, then our debts are even bigger and interest on the debt is even har ...

No, you don't understand. When a major Japanese company makes a public announcement like this, they are very serious. Yoou can be sure that this will happen otherwise they will lose face.
Honda said ...

The secretary of commerce was on TV a couple weeks ago. Basically he said we need immigrants because they are mostly uneducated and therefore willing to work in the fields for pennies. Americans far ...

Very well said Toecutter.

Unfortunately, I don't think mankind will change until it is forced to. It's like the person who never gets his car fixed or changes the oil, and then suddenly the whol ...

Texas is bigger than most European countries, yet I know next to nothing about it.
I notice quite a few of you are there now (not sure if you're planning on staying or what).
What are some of it's b ...

I know exactly what you mean. The new road construction in my area is breathtaking. In fact, new buildings of every sort are multiplying worse than coliform bacteria in...err...well, never mind. ...

Now we are faced with a system with so many variables (sunlight, CO2, methane, ocean currents, solid water, liquid water, water vapour, feedback loops etc etc) that it boggles the mind.

My impressi ...

Just looking for people's thoughts on something.

If CO2 were removed from the air, back to levels of 230 ppm or thereabouts, would the temperature begin falling? (assuming methane and everything e ...

It is pretty bad stuff. Only recently has the IPCC started to incorporate this phenomenon into the global warming models. I don't think it made it fully into the latest report (though they did mention ...

Dummy's guide to creating a self-sufficient solar panel factory:

- buy a huge chunk of crappy, but silicon rich, land
- design a huge silicon purification plant
- take 1 year to get through zonin ...

Congressmen are not scientists and the electorate is not rational.

I love that. I wish I could put that on a bumper sticker.

Given a discourse among the pernicious fascistic corporate whores o ...

This is a brilliant political move for Obama.

- The typical American has no idea how much coal is left, or about exponential consumption rates, etc. He will say 'we have enough coal for 300 year ...

Its wasting valuable time and money that could be spent exploring other options that could play a significant role.

Let's say that we throw 100% of all our research into fusion, and it doesn't work ...