Posted on 07/30/2006 10:23:17 PM PDT by humint
Crude and its products are a one-price market, worldwide. Premia and discounts to a 'barrel' of crude (there is no such thing, btw, it's merely an out-of-date metric) occur only due to different grades, whether 'sweet' or 'sour' and how much so, and whether 'heavy' or 'light' or wherever in between. Plus, of course, shipping costs.
Went out today and began cutting cordwood against the winter of 2006 - 2007. Nearby town has banned woodburning for the sake of its precious astmatics so an important source of past competition, townies, is now removed. Plenty of dead wood due to drought and pine bark beetle damage.
This year's plan involves bringing in two years worth of heat on the chance (very real) that next years' gas transportation expenses will be higher. By first snowfall I anticipate three year's worth of stacked and split wood in my yard. Then I can settle back by the stove with a good book and my Alladin lamp. Yessir, us country boys will survive.
hey when the west finally wakes up to the Muslim threat, we might just have a little depopulation party
Oh you bet it's coming to an end!....just what the radical left in this country wanted...all of us living in mud huts and peddling bikes to work in 140 degree summer heat and 40 below winter weather and each one wearing gas masks at work because the guy in the cubicle next to you has sweat problems that smell like a 2 week old dead cow!
Have you ever thought of what might have happened if this cold fusion experiments whould have worked with significant yields ?
Personal experience : Did a CF experiment years ago for under $100, $50 I gave to the mass spectrometer guy at the University Physics dept. Stainless steel cup($3.89 at walmart + 1/2 pint of copper coated BB beads), sent them off to MN to have them thin coated(650 angstroms)with nickel(in drum, not dipped). Pint of developer fluid, coffee paper filters in bottom of cup, pinch of salt(but no voodoo chants)stainless steel spoon, plastic liner around inside of cup(from brochure)sticking about 1/4" above rim, 6V battery charger. Fill about 1/2" from top w/KOH, scotch tape spoon down at about a 45 deg angle, pour beads in bottom, hook up red lead to spoon, black lead to cup handle(yes, on my kitchen counter). It takes about 3 hours to get COOKING. It takes about 2W to run but in a day the cup is too hot to handle, about like holding a lit 100W lightbulb, roughly 50:1 over unity......After about a week its fizzed out. Took the dregs to MSU for a mass spec test. Besides the ubiquitous tritium the K41 to K39 ratio went from 8%/92% to 16%/84%, a DOUBLING of the K41 nuclei in the original KOH. That is IMPOSSIBLE chemically, and on a KITCHEN COUNTER!!???....So, yes CF/LENR actually works, which is why the hot fusion boys on the federal dole(in the DOE)hate it so much : VESTED INTERESTS. And the main champion for CTNF is none other than Charles Vest of MIT, GWBs science advisor. See how the good old boy system works?
You might want to look at George Washington's angelic visitations at Valley Forge. Three of them, revolutionary war outcome, civil war outcome and WWIII which we win ultimately but with great loss of american life as well. Israel is the canary in the mine, and what's going on there will be coming here soon enough, 911 was just a wake up call. So let the muslim crazies know : mecca gets our first H bomb....
Yes, I occasionally get sarcastic, too many bloggers on FR give me a "north dakota" forehead(an "in" Montana joke). Get past the sarcasm and you might find something interesting...once in awhile.
Okaaaaayy,
is that one published ?
maybe scientists of the future get paid not to do research on specific areas...
I got to enlist in an institute again.
yeah, the first time i was in england i realized that driving from london to northumbria was a good chunk of the way out of the populated part of the island (assuming i count glasglow/edinburg as the practical limit), yet a similar time/distance wouldn't get me from miami to out of florida at an point. avg distance for goods in the UK must be like 25% or less than for the US.
Yes, as a matter of fact, my friend Hal Fox put it in the Journal of New Energy some years ago. Not that big of a deal as CF articles go, just an "aunt millie" experimenting with a "recipe" in her kitchen kind of thing, anyone with $100 extra cash can do it. It works about 9 out of 10 times. Why only 9 of 10? Only GOD knows why it doesn't work 10% of the time.....Speaking of "time", I have another article in the JNE : Bohring Einstein, you want want to see that as well : Wayne Powell, author.
I enjoyed your post for its sarcasm and also for the satire which is its sophisticated older brother.
Keep up the good work! :^)
It's going to take prices like that to get investment into large scale alternative energy production and usage due to economic forces. I can't help that.
The mullahs can't aggravate ME to death! For that, I have the EPA, BATF, IRS, CDC, OSHA, Democrats, liberals and RINOs who's services have been well paid.
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