Posted on 11/02/2011 2:31:43 PM PDT by Kevmo
I disagree about the high oil prices. Oil prices are sensitive to demand, and relatively small changes in demand or supply can have large effects on prices.
One trend I'm seeing is conversion of diesel trucks to run on Liquified Natural Gas (which currently has a price equivalent to about $2/gal diesel). The big issue involves fueling stations: it's a chicken/egg problem where truck stops don't want to install NG capabilities if there's no NG-based trucks, and trucking firms want fueling capabilities there before investing in conversion. But the infrastructure is slowly being built up and may reach critical mass in the next one or two years along some routes.
Intellectually I'm very much in the middle of the road on the Ecat, but emotionally I find them constantly driving me into the opposite camp out of sheer antipathy to their attacks. So it takes discipline on my part to stay in the objective middle. I suspect they have a similar effect on the average reader.
Thus, I am tending to believe the seagulls like Moonman and Allmendream are secretly in the Rossi camp, maybe as paid supporters, to ramp up support for the Ecat and suck in investors and buyers. It's a less crazy idea than most of what they come up with, at any rate.
I hope not. We're in an interglacial period. If it stops being warm, we'll be on our way to being buried under a mile thick ice again.
Don’t worry, we can use ecats to bore holes through the ice.
Besides, ice is fresh water — lotsa problems solved right there. And it makes a good refridgerator.
I’m wondering the best play right now, since I don’t know who the customer is, would be to short oil somehow. I have seen the projections that oil price would go down immediately, but I’m not an economist and don’t know why that’s the case.
Maybe not, unless there's a plan on how to grow crops and livestock on the surface of the ice during conditions that denote non-growing seasons.
We can harness polar bears and use them to plow the...
well, I’ll get back to you.
Thought this might interest you.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/02/andrea-rossi-italian-cold-fusion-plant/?test=faces
A physicist in Italy claims to have demonstrated a new type of power plant that provides safe, cheap and virtually unlimited nuclear power to the world, without fossil fuels or radiation concerns.
The only hitch: Scientists say the method — cold fusion — is patently impossible. They say it defies the laws of physics.
Andrea Rossi doesn’t seem to care. He told FoxNews.com that his new device takes in nickel and hydrogen and fuses them in a low-grade nuclear reaction that essentially spits out sheer power, validating the strange science.
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“With low energy, it’s possible to give a heater a certain amount of energy and to get from the same heater a superior amount of energy,” Rossi explained. He claims he demonstrated the device, called an E-Cat, at the University of Bologna in Italy on Oct. 28.
People holding oil would try to sell immediately in anticipation of further price drops, oil producers would crank production to maximum in order to sell before prices dropped further, etc.
Make heat cheap enough, and you'll see greenhouses sprouting up in colder regions.
Why do you keep linking back you this post to you?
To: Kevmo
Knock off the personal attacks and seagull nonsense.
54 posted on Sunday, October 30, 2011 6:38:43 PM by Admin Moderator
“Intellectually I’m very much in the middle of the road on the Ecat, but emotionally I find them constantly driving me into the opposite camp out of sheer antipathy to their attacks.”
Uh huh ... See link for your lovefest thread ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2790674/posts
Your best bet is to get in on the ground floor. IMMEDIATELY send Rossi a check for $100,000. Just make sure you get a receipt.
I think Rossi is intentionally leaving a trail of public evidence that he's incompetent and that the ecat doesn't work, so that he'll have an excellent legal defense when he's arrested (again).
I’ve posted quite a few threads on this subject, pro and con. One of my problems with the pseudoskeptics is they pick and choose what data to consider. You just gave an example of that.
Data is data. If you have a problem with the data, take it up with the author of the data.
K put up the Nobel Prize winner endorsement as ‘proof’ of a legitimate operation. I thanked him for bringing up the same guy that promotes his theory on water molecules retain their healing memory in homeopathic medicines. Then I told him how enlightening a google search of ‘Kevmo homeopathic’ was.
Great minds think alike!
I gave up on you across all LENR threads as far as I recall.
Last I recall, I gave up on you because you went off the deep end.
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