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Remember Asimov in his series of fictional novels about the galactic future had another foundation set up at the other end of the galaxy. While he supposed a community of scientists and engineers open ...

Wow and artistic too. In the words of Franklin, I think that is a rising sun and not a setting sun.

For a similar idea, my mother-in-law told me how her father had rigged a refrigerator by running ...

The third world countries will get mass starvation and the first world countries will get biofuels.

Why do you all have to be so negative???

Don't you know negative thoughts actually interrupt the process of oil extraction?? Razz

So are we all suppose to join hands and visualize a bright white ...

oops there's a typo on electric prices in western PA should read $.067 or 6.7 cents per kWh

The solar hot water systems make a lot more sense from what I read. You might even be able to get one of them installed in the next three years. If you live in a climate with a long cooling season, th ...

I find it interesting that people are more willing to believe that humans presently have the ability to create tsunamis, lighting strikes, flash floods and other environmental disasters just when and ...

I gotta guess that if he quits shipping to the US, some other supplier would make up the slack. I thin this was mentioned in another thread.

In a post peak world supplying oil to allies might becom ...

Belonging to a cult should be fun. I have ordered my chicken little hat from the back of the pop tarts box.

I went to eia.doe.gov and to see the actual numbers. Yes the site reports that the average field production of crude oil in 2005 was 5.1 million barrels per day. (range 5.5 to 4.2) But it also report ...

I am in the middle of reading The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki. He says a lot of how the majority of people respond to a situation dependes on how the first few people respond and how the grou ...

The abortion debate is not really about choice but about who gets to make the choice. 75% of all conceptions end in miscarriage. The standard line is that these embryos were not viable, but that is no ...

Yes there is a dreadful lack of knowledge out there about peak oil. And the ones that have heard of it, thing hydrogen or oil from Nigeria or Canadian tar sands or something will solve the problem wit ...

December 22, 2005
California utility regulators approved a large contract for deployment of solar thermal concentrators that use Stirling engines.
http://renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?i ...

What about stirling engines on a solar concentrator instead of PV? Supposedly they are 30% efficient. Generate AC so no inverter is required.

Still have the time of day constraints, which would ha ...