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SAS Scandinavian Airlines announced today that they're laying of 500 employees.

edit: English language Scandinavian airlines SAS announced on Thursday that it would slash another 500 jobs and seven ...

While I have a fondness for wooden ships and pretty clippers, I think modern materials will offer better solutions than wood and canvas allowed. Studdingsails look bitching and all, but I'm guessing t ...

Gotta agree with Revi here. Check out [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pommern_(ship)]the 1903 windjammer Pommern as an example. She was pretty much the last hurrah of the age of sail, and could give ...

I've been pondering the same subject, but for civilian applications. With the ever-increasing size of container ships, I'd imagine that reactors would actually make some kind of financial sense at som ...

Canal boats are crazy efficient. I'd think that solar powered canal boats are well within the realm of what's possible. Historically, huge loads were moved on canals with just a horsepower or two. A c ...

What the heck is a kilogram anyhoo? I mean, a pound is a pound. Funny how them Britts get confused over pounds and kilograms.

A kilo is a lot of grass man.
The United States, Libya and Myanmar a ...

Sonofabitch. I guess this is what happens when you don't have a unified energy policy. Finland goes nuclear, Italy and Germany goes "OMG ATOMS!" and chose the dirtiest power source imaginable.

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I just saw a headline proclaiming record fuel prices in Sweden. 13 SEK/liter (95 octane) works out at around 8.4 $US/gallon.

Al Jazeera is in the forefront of investigative television reporting once again. I'm not surprised, but it's a noteworthy phenomenon nonetheless.

Ahmadenijad acts a lot like your regular internet troll. Chavez too come to think about it. Ghadaffi used to be a great troll but stopped for some reason. However, the biggest and most successful trol ...

I have an old (~80years?) tool that sees daily use during season. Problem is I don't rightly know what it's called in English. I often use it together with a sledgehammer and a pick axe when moving/br ...

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Waste-based fuel could have a positive energy return but there certainly is not enough to make a difference to the general public.
I guess we differ on what "difference" actually means. To me, a f ...

I understand the frustration you guys feel with biofuel advocates - I share it to a large extent. I am well aware of the utter futility in attempting to replace fossil fuels with biofuels, and when pe ...

Crap from our butts in the anaerobic digester can't even power your local municipal waste treatment plant. I know, mine tried. How do you expect it to run the garbage trucks? Drive mom and the kids to ...