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What about a third option:

3. Install PV without batteries, and use the power as it is available (during the day only)

Would it be sustainable then?

seahorse2,
I agree that the bailout of F&F is a necessary step towards hyperinflation. I think they are so worried about a repeat of the great depression that they will probably bail out more b ...

Oildummy, let's see if we can agree on any of the following
1. the earths mass is finite
2. therefore oil is finite
3. therefore oil will have an end sometime
4. therefore oil production will have ...

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re schoolbook example Smile

Let's assume there was a country that had a constant population (say 1 million people), and a constant amount of coins (money), and a constant economy. (just to make it si ...

I guess I'm an "optimistic doomer" if that is possible Smile

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I believe we will have an extremely difficult 20-40 years ahead of us, with the scenarios mentioned above (depending on the speed of the ...

http://www.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_8074062
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9005023/

Not so much crapdoodle Cool

Dohboi,
I generally agree with you, and I don't want to sound overly optimistic (I am not), but actually scientists are very close to be able to recreate living organisms from DNA alone.

So if we ...

I agree that if we had unlimited energy we could engineer our way out of any limiting problem.
- if it is water, we could purify sea water with enough energy
- if it is pollution, we could clean it ...

At Tesla's time scientists didn't know that most of the matter in the universe is in the Plasma state, which conducts electricity.

Unfortunately, most models today, which are almost entirely based ...

Unfortunately I know the law very well - because I am part of this mess. No, I do not have an ARM, in fact I have a great mortgage.

But, we are moving away and we haven't been able to sell the hou ...

I honestly never even though of makeup and jewelry!

What I think of doing (especially since I have kids!) is:
- food supply/root cellar
- a garden w fruits and veggies
- tools to build stuff (wo ...

What about the "North American Union", which is supposed to get rid of borders between US/Mexico (and US/Canada)? If all goes along as planned, then the plan is it implement this by 2010....

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A quick FYI: PO occurred almost 3 years ago.

Regarding your question: coal gasification is a good approach for petrochemicals, but it's too inefficient for powering vehicles. Far better and eas ...

The total gasoline usage per year is approx. 146 billion gallons per year, that is about 3.5 billion barrels of gasoline / year.

If one plant = 11 million barrels of gasoline a year, then that is a ...