... Larry?? A few years ago Larry approached his Guadalajara neighbors and announced that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The neighbors, seeing that there...
You may notice that the price of oil service stocks has dropped dramatically. Why? The falling oil prices has led the integrated oil companies to curtail new...
Composite of Dow Jones newswire stories and Marketwatch stories Will GM survive til the launch of the Volt in 2011? Here are some numbers to consider:...
... Stirling engines again... Stirling engines sound wonderful but to fill out the promises, severe technical problems must be overcome. All the energy to run...
... Yes Frank - they sure are - nearly bought one (a reconditioned unit) from NZ -but the WhisperGen is currently designed as a co-generating geat source - and...
... Arthur - you are being a bit 'hard-assed' in your assessment- sorry You are perfectly correct about the issues with the 'hot end' - and as it is a 'heat...
http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2008/10/the-bailout-in.html#more The Bailout in Plain English Speaking in the Tongues of Brokers By Joe Bageant Any number of...
Tom You talk about what we know then go into detail of what has been happening without any reference to the most fundamental natural law, mainly because it is...
Scottish & Southern Energy, one of Britain’s largest power companies, has deliberately cut the amount of electricity generated by some of its plants to...
Tom R. and everyone else in the ER group: When I heard Odum's speech regarding eMergy at the Houston TOES Conference in 1990, I recognized immediately that...
But Tom W, with respect - while some of us may have brains the size of planets - but mathematics is not a mechanism for communication for all of us - we don't...
... There have been several discussions of the Sacramento Conference at http://www.theoildrum.com including two today, Oct 5, 2008. Megan Quinn Bachman posted...
... Hugh, I was exposed to the idea of Stirling engines when I was a teenager, my father was an engineer who was fascinated by them and went so far as to get a...
"Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence" -- technology, culture, human development -- monthly newsletter, free access The October 2008 issue is in...
Hello all, firstly a disclaimer: I am not an engineer but I do work with a leading international engineering corporation. Thus I do have some knowledge of the...
... Postscript We all have the following problem: On the one hand, physicists tell us that free energy cannot be. Moreover, the internet is full of tales of...
Thanks, Hugh, for the much needed comment. In my defense, I must admit that I might not be the right person to popularize the notion of eMergy, however eMergy...
Hello Denis, You have come up with an excellent idea, but you have NOT discovered a fundamental natural law, let alone the "most fundamental natural law"....
Humans live in and from the biosphere. But in the first decade of the 21st Century, 85 percent of the primary energy consumed by the 6.7 billion humans comes...
Folks, there is a point in thought—like right about now—when it becomes critical that we assess how our view of our world matches up with its physical,...
I was amazed to hear that co2 refrigeration was commercially available. I have been working somewhat in this area for a long time and have thermodynamic curves...
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On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Francisco González ... ================ With regard to the above, which I posted back in June, Paul Craig Roberts' comments...
The week dawns with taxpayers liable for nearly $1 trillion more debt, over 1000 banks on the FDIC's endangered list, potential FDIC losses of $100 to 200...
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Tom R., The Black-Scholes model is an abstraction that describes only approximately the behavior of stock and commodity options, which are, indeed,...
But there might be a bigger benefit down the road: Making government action on climate change more palatable. High energy prices this summer, especially at the...
