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One cannot argue against the notion that a criminal behind bars is a criminal causing no harm.
Um, yes you can. Very easily. Putting a criminal behind bars costs money that could otherwise be spent o ...

until they lose their 'means' altogether.

Wrong. I've been poor, very poor. It's not as bad as everyone thinks.
Except when you were poor, the vast majority of the population weren't.

Things ...

I think relying on an array of orbiting solar panels for a large percentage of energy use is much worse than relying on oil. At least with oil there are many sources over the world and any temporarily ...

That all changed back to ridicule & laughter once Y2K ended up to be a non event.
Actually that's interesting. You probably also know about 2038 problem, and for those who don't go here [url=http ...

Thus, you weren't old enough to remember paying the high prices for limited selection and their ursury rates.

I am.
That may be so, but at least the money stayed in the community. That seems bette ...

I guess the whole "natural" part of "natural gas" makes her think it's somehow a "green" fuel or something?

Looking ahead what are they going to pay the army with post peak? It will be hard to collect income taxes from zombies. Even harder to get taxes out of dug in survivalists.
I think that should be ob ...

I'm not sure you should directly bring up peak oil in any way. But teaching about exponential growth systems is a good idea.

Some ideas with this:
* The old proverb about the chinese emporer that ...

One interesting thing about solar plants that no one has mentioned here is that unlike coal and other plants, they don't have to come online all 'at once'.

So while a coal plant might take 3-4 yea ...

Notice how it says it is three times more abundant than silver, yet I'm not hearing anyone shouting that we will run out of silver. Anyway, here is a good post that will hopefully clear this up a
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I know you're just trying to say "put your money where your mouth is" and prove that it's possible to learn things from books, but I think you're being a little petty here.

It doesn't matter if he ...

That and the 'experiments' showed some four whole neutrons in several milliseconds before the machine blew up, so I'm inclined to believe its wishful thinking and measurement anomolies.
I believe the ...

This is perhaps a rather simplistic question, but it's the first thing that jumps to mind.

You've shown that California has a low EROEI rate for the oil that it produces. But California is also con ...

Wouldn't this be related to their big smog reduction campaign for the Olympics? I'd wager that their usage pops back up in September/October.

Beijing is one mega-city in a country of mega-cities an ...

Recycling is a fine plan, but experience shows that the amounts of, say, gold in a computer does not make it a worthwhile endeavor without a large investment in equipment to extract that gold.
From a ...