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Topic: Test drive Mitsubishi electric car |
bigfnman
Replies: 14
Views: 1013
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 3:52 pm Subject: Re: Test drive Mitsubishi electric car |
| Can someone design the body so it doesn't look like I am driving down the road in an egg? |
Topic: Bakken (U.S.) formation oil discovery - 4 billion barrels |
bigfnman
Replies: 835
Views: 39443
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 3:06 pm Subject: Re: North Dakota Bakken - 450 Billion Barrels? |
| People lie. Others hope. Some deny. Others mope. There are lots of reason why folks do not want to recognize peak oil. There are lots of excuses and diversion they'll invent to deny the simple fact th ... |
Topic: 6,000,000,000 die-off |
bigfnman
Replies: 953
Views: 35436
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Forum: Population & Carrying Capacity Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:06 pm Subject: Re: 6,000,000,000 die-off |
The second sugar cube and the second petri dish have distorted the experiment a little. I don't think we will find any more petri dishes, though.
If only we had warp drive...
I have to say, one of ... |
Topic: GM plannig 40MPG car . . . |
bigfnman
Replies: 40
Views: 2487
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:04 pm Subject: Re: GM plannig 40MPG car . . . |
| GM is a joke. Worthless garbage. |
Topic: The Production of Oil Sands proves the peak of Oil,yes? no? |
bigfnman
Replies: 42
Views: 2264
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:03 pm Subject: Re: The Production of Oil Sands proves the peak of Oil,yes? |
A wonderful thing about oil is that it is all stored underground in large quanities. When humans can not meet their insatiable energy requirements with this lovely liquid stored safely underground. ... |
Topic: 6,000,000,000 die-off |
bigfnman
Replies: 953
Views: 35436
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Forum: Population & Carrying Capacity Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 2:24 pm Subject: Re: 6,000,000,000 die-off |
What the OP and Hope-ful both are missing is this . . .
The population of the world was stable at about 1 billion prior to fossil fuels.
The growth of the extra 5.5 billion did not just happen ... |
Topic: MSN: "What if gas cost $10?" |
bigfnman
Replies: 15
Views: 1554
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:14 am Subject: Re: MSN: "What if gas cost $10?" |
| Massive amounts of timber would be clearcut for firewood when people could no longer afford heating oil, kerosene and propane. Coal stoves and boilers will make a comeback. Heated apartments will beco ... |
Topic: How Long until Inflation destroys our Investments |
bigfnman
Replies: 25
Views: 2508
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 3:15 pm Subject: Re: How Long until Inflation destroys our Investments |
| My wife and I decided to forgoe her employer's 401K and instead use the money to buy things we need around the house, like topsoil. I have serious doubts that people will get anything out of their re ... |
Topic: PBS - Nova science: Fuel Cells |
bigfnman
Replies: 12
Views: 843
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:54 pm Subject: Re: PBS - Nova science: Fuel Cells |
Supposedly we're 20-50 years away from scaled nuclear fusion power planet
This is funny because I heard this very same claim 20 years ago
That's because we are stuck in oil and spinning our whee ... |
Topic: Perhaps 60% Of Today's Oil Price Is Pure Speculation |
bigfnman
Replies: 31
Views: 3424
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:47 pm Subject: Re: Perhaps 60% Of Today's Oil Price Is Pure Speculation |
| Speculation, falling dollar, supply/demand strained are all part of the equation. If you start seeing supply shortages, meaning lines at the pump, then watch out because the crap then has hit the fan. ... |
Topic: Does anyone think we'll see $1000.00 / barrel by 2018? |
bigfnman
Replies: 41
Views: 2763
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:43 pm Subject: Re: Does anyone think we'll see $1000.00 / barrel by 2018? |
| I don't see it happening. At a price 1/2 that high no one will be able to afford to do anything thus the die off starts. First via riots and then starvation. Then once the population has been trimmed ... |
Topic: WHY OIL WILL ALWAYS BE LESS THAN $100 |
bigfnman
Replies: 77
Views: 13276
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:29 pm Subject: Re: WHY OIL WILL ALWAYS BE LESS THEN $100 |
It's possible that oil won't be going below $100 again. I didn't expect oil breaking through $100 to $120 so fast.
I can see it going under $100 short term in a commodities bubble poppin ... |
Topic: Infinite ethanol? |
bigfnman
Replies: 98
Views: 6090
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:28 pm Subject: Re: Infinite ethanol? |
From the article:
The company plans to have its first commercial-scale plant producing up to 100 million gallons (100,000,000) of ethanol a year by 2011. Friedman and Greene said the timeline is re ... |
Topic: Trucking |
bigfnman
Replies: 33
Views: 4437
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:50 pm Subject: Re: Trucking |
| One thing I don't understand about truckers and their contracts is that they have been concerned about fuel prices since the 1973 "oil crisis". I remember hearing truckers interviewed on the radio/TV ... |
Topic: THE OPEC Thread (merged) pt 1 |
bigfnman
Replies: 1471
Views: 10420
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Forum: Geopolitics Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:22 am Subject: Re: OPEC sees biofuels replacing all oil by 2050 |
| Who is going to inform about 4 billions humanoids that they can no longer exist once we move to bio because the current population CANNOT be sustained without crude. |
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