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Topic: UK Doomers - Lets meet |
gigacannon
Replies: 33
Views: 6897
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Forum: Europe Discussion Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:45 am Subject: Re: UK Doomers - Lets meet |
| People are always willing to moan about the price of petrol. British people, in general, hate discussing about the future. It seems vague and fanciful to them. People have their own idea about why pet ... |
Topic: British students given detention for not praying to allah |
gigacannon
Replies: 31
Views: 3812
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Forum: Europe Discussion Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:38 am Subject: Re: British students given detention for not praying to alla |
| Rubbish. Nobody gives a flying Fark about religion in the UK. The tabloids always publish stories about people banning Christmas, political correctness gone too far, and so on. It's bullshit that they ... |
Topic: Why PO is a moot point |
gigacannon
Replies: 14
Views: 1224
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:31 am Subject: Re: Why PO is a moot point |
I feel pretty reassured that the doomers predicted things would be much, much worse by now, and they're much, much better than I thought.
I'm not in the least bit worried about any of my bills; onl ... |
Topic: Can Mass Transit and railways help us? |
gigacannon
Replies: 146
Views: 18287
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:25 pm Subject: Re: Can Mass Transit and railways help us? |
| Since the majority of all western economies consists of people doing pointless jobs, and buying crap with little genuine worth in terms of productivity, the first thing to be sacrificied when oil pric ... |
Topic: Urban farmers evicted in LA |
gigacannon
Replies: 24
Views: 2054
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:31 am Subject: Re: Urban farmers evicted in LA |
I've always had a problem with undeveloped land being bought and sold as a commodity. The land belongs to no-one.
On the other hand, there always is a need to zone land to manage the growth of a ci ... |
Topic: Peak Oil will hurt USA and Western Europe the most |
gigacannon
Replies: 47
Views: 13467
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Forum: Europe Discussion Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 6:19 pm Subject: Re: Peak Oil will hurt USA and Western Europe the most |
| Africa would likely do a lot better post PO without the Security Council selling them so many guns. Africa's wars are perpetuated on purpose so that the Security Council members can make more money by ... |
Topic: www.peakoil.com on CD? |
gigacannon
Replies: 9
Views: 2531
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Forum: Suggestion Box Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 6:02 pm Subject: Re: www.peakoil.com on CD? |
www.wikipedia.org
Many websites use the code and structure of wikipedia to build encyclopedias that everyone can edit. In the five years wikipedia has been going (I think,) wikipedia is reckoned to ... |
Topic: Coal - What are the ramifications? |
gigacannon
Replies: 115
Views: 31099
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 5:58 pm Subject: Re: Coal - What are the ramifications? |
| Coal based power plants don't produce a great deal of carbon dioxide emissions, and should be cheaper to run than oil-burning power stations. But conversion to a transport network run on coal? Not lik ... |
Topic: Help with compiling data? |
gigacannon
Replies: 2
Views: 680
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Forum: Conservation & Efficiency Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 5:52 pm Subject: Re: Help with compiling data? |
Thanks! I'll get to work on it after I have a shower, I think...
I am expecting that shipping will be the most efficient transport medium, and if so, I'm expecting that electrically-powered trains ... |
Topic: Help with compiling data? |
gigacannon
Replies: 2
Views: 680
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Forum: Conservation & Efficiency Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:45 pm Subject: Help with compiling data? |
| Hey, I was told by a tutor of mine that commerical cargo vessels are very fuel efficient. This is true, a merchant naval vessel's engine is approximately 50% efficient; only half of the fuel energy is ... |
Topic: Energy from Human Dung |
gigacannon
Replies: 33
Views: 2413
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 9:56 am Subject: Re: Energy from Human Dung |
| Humans mainly eat simple sugars, so there's not much carbon left in human dung. Cows, on the other hand, eat grass, which is mainly composed of cellulose. Cellulose is broken down by bacteria in the c ... |
Topic: Chavez: "final days of the North American empire'" |
gigacannon
Replies: 22
Views: 3383
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 9:51 am Subject: Re: Chavez: "final days of the North American empire'&q |
| Human beings are rational; it's rationality that allows us to add 'being' to the end of 'human'. Unfortunately if you don't give a crap about the survival of the rest of mankind, or the eradication of ... |
Topic: [Peak Oil Songs / Music] |
gigacannon
Replies: 13
Views: 2401
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Forum: Book/Media Reviews Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 9:46 am Subject: Re: [Peak Oil Songs / Music] |
Everything's Cool (Pop Will Eat Itself)
These eyes see only what they wanna see
These ears hear only what they wanna hear
These minds think only what they wanna think
These lies, these lies
Y ... |
Topic: Iran builds first solar-powered car |
gigacannon
Replies: 4
Views: 845
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 9:17 am Subject: Re: Iran builds first solar-powered car |
| And these guys are supposed to be able to build ICBMs? It doesn't take a genius to build a nuclear bomb or a reactor (the science is well understood and taught the world over). Either way, the Iranian ... |
Topic: Energy from Human Dung |
gigacannon
Replies: 33
Views: 2413
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 9:09 am Subject: Re: Energy from Human Dung |
| Humans aren't ruminants. You can't use human faeces as a fuel source like you can with cow dung for pretty much the same reason you can't smear human faeces over fields to grow crops. |
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