Buck up Dave, you are far too gloomy(Canadian?). Ontario has 2000 miles of the Great Lakes shoreline alone! Here's a report that suggests there is 7500 MW of...
More haste less speed. I relied uncritically on memory for the datum about the percentage of Ontario electricity that comes from hydro. It's 26%, not 16%....
Right you undoubtedly are Phillip. I reply with a bit of humor and anecdote. I cant imagine keeping up with road repair. Here in northern MN, road repairs...
... <snip> my five children, and their 25 children's 125 children I saw this as satire because of the extreme compounding 1 to 5 to 125 but missed the onion...
What's new with Big Petroleum? Milton Maciel Petroleum Companies Show Support for Biodiesel Growth http://www.biodiesel.org/news/bulletin/2006/060106.htm BP...
... Gloominess has nothing to do with it Joe. Arithmetic and understanding how wind energy interacts with the grid has everything to do with it. ... I assume...
Phillip: One of Odum's students that I consider on the "forefront" is Tom Abel; he's a recently minted UF PhD (2000). In addition to HT Odum, Abel had Marvin...
Hi, all The quotes below were taped by the California Coalition for Immigration Reform at Hispanic rallies . You might want a CD with these quotes, and more,...
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Gloominess has nothing to do with it Joe. Arithmetic and understanding how wind energy interacts with the grid has everything to do with it.-DD I've argued it...
... anecdote. I cant imagine keeping up with road repair. Here in northern MN, road repairs are decimated by the following spring as frost heave fragments...
Folks, this article made me worry - even more - about our near future. Some may think it is not related to energy issues, excuse me, but I wonder how...
... You should not use the early 1980's and an example. VMT did decline then but it was for too brief of a period to use as guide for what is ahead. And just...
~~~~~~~ EnergyResources Moderator Comment ~~~~~~~~ I wonder if the farmers who pinned their hopes on the biofuels myth will come around to seeing how they were...
Good article in current issue of Countryside magazine: http://www.countrysidemag.com/current.htm#article1 (No subscription required) [Non-text portions of this...
This is a great article! However, the folly involved may be generalized to include vehicle mileage improvements ( no sollution to vehicle construction ...
I do wish people would stop equating "biofuels" with ethanol. Probably a vain wish, given current media focus. I've said it before: biomass is a good source...
Those are all worthy goals to espouse. IMO, the resulting lifestyle could be richer and more rewarding than our current consumption-driven lifestyles, so...
...and this has to do with peak oil because....? ~~~~~~~ EnergyResources Moderator Comment ~~~~~~~~ Carrying capacity. It is declining just about everywhere in...
Hello Everyone, Interesting material found on Google Video: British program devoted to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth: http://tinyurl.com/h8pad Crude...
It worries me too. The most optimistic scenario I can come up with is that as more and more baby boomers face retirement with inadequate savings and little...
Not many. Most of us urban/suburban dwellers only need small electric go-cart type transport to go on short trips to the grocery store, get to work, pick up...
Lawmakers who crafted the 2005 Energy Policy Act (EPAct) are on a mission to get new nukes built. They've devised a plan so the financial risk -- and perhaps...
David, The fatal flaw in your analysis (or Ferguson's) is that it is trivially easy to limit peak infeed. If the average infeed is 20% of nameplate capacity,...
David, Your statements about Denmark and Norway make no sense to me. The figures you give for Norway's energy usage are almost certainly garbled: 80% coal, ...
Hey, boys, do not generalize that! Biofools and ethanuts are terms you may apply to USA CONDITIONS! Even then I have some punctual doubts, but I have no proxy...
That is really interesting and worrying. I guess it would need a good sociologist to design the research method to find out why this is happening. It would...
Top this: CNN just had a segment on 'tree power'. MIT tested a suggestion by 'an inventor' to use trees for electrical power. The scheme is to drive nails...
From the NY Times, July 3, 2006 BP Oil, Gas Output Tumbles Yet Again By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 11:28 a.m. ET LONDON (AP) -- BP PLC said Monday its oil...
Hi Roger ... figures ... coal, ... Norway ... when you ... electricity ... Actually, Norway doesn't do any electricity production by coal. And Denmark doesn't...
First they came for the gardening jobs and I did not speak out because I was not a gardener. Then they came for the construction jobs and I did not speak out ...
