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In Peak Oil? How About Anything Into Oil?, I wrote:
I'm not saying that a collapse due... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (DireStrike) http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3223 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:49:24 GMT http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3226/t/Falling-oil-prices-amp-US-military-.html

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But here's one thing I wonder: what if the number one user of oil products in the US had laid in huge inventories of the stuff earlier in the year and has lately withdrawn from bidding in the futures and spot markets? I am speaking of the US Military. It would make sense, against the background of Iran rattling its nuclear capabilities, and the Israel / Hezbollah affair, that the US armed forces filled their tank... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (stoneonstone) http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3226 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:57:04 GMT http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3228/t/an-advance-in-solar-technology.html www.physorg.com/news76344249.html
Synthetic Molecules Capture Solar Energy
Green Building Press
September 5, 2006

A leaf is a highly efficient solar cell and researchers in Sydney have created molecules that mimic those in plants. Like the cells in plants, they harvest light and create power. According to the research team, led by Dr Deanna D'Alessandro, the best leaves... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (darkbeforedawn) http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3228 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:26:12 GMT http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3227/t/Chevron-Finds-Big-Oil-Field.html feeds@yuku.com (Dreams End) http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3227 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:11:27 GMT http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3229/t/Chad-President-Kicks-Chevron-s-Ass-Out.html
N'DJAMENA, Chad (Reuters) -- Chad ordered U.S. energy giant Chevron and Malaysia's Petronas on Saturday to leave the country within 24 hours for failing to honor tax obligations, in a move apparently motivated by a desire to earn more from its oil.

"From tomorrow, the representatives of Chevron and Petronas must leave Chad and close their offices," Idriss Deby, president of the central African nation, told a government meeting.

The... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (heyjt) http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3229 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:13:22 GMT http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3231/t/CEOs-Oil-Price-Spike-and-War-Profiteers-Report.html
Only in America.
Go figger.

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Contact: Betsy Leondar-Wright, (617) 423-2148... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (StarmanSkye) http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3231 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:28:22 GMT http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3230/t/Irish-tech-firm-throws-down-quot-free-energy-quot-gauntlet.html Irish tech firm throws down "free energy" gauntlet

Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:13 AM BST254

DUBLIN (Reuters) - An Irish technology firm issued a challenge to the world's scientific community on Friday to give its verdict on technology it says smashes one of the basic laws of physics by producing "free energy."

Dublin-based Steorn said it had placed an advertisement in The Economist magazine seeking... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rigorous Intuition) http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3230 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:41:44 GMT http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3232/t/-quot-the-future-s-looking-so-ugly-nobody-wants-to-face-it.html
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003195206_triboil13.html

<<Oil crisis: It's only just begun

By Paul Salopek

Chicago Tribune

Marathon station manager Michelle Vargo keeps an eye on customers in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (yesferatu) http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3232 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:14:08 GMT http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3233/t/NSA-Running-Out-Of-Electrical-Power.html Submitted by lambert on Sun, 2006-08-06 13:37.

Baltimore Sun:

The NSA is Baltimore Gas & Electrics largest customer, using as much electricity as the city of Annapolis, according to James Bamford, an intelligence expert and author of two comprehensive books on the agency.

Since the 2001 terrorist attacks, the NSA has ramped up its operations, and the electricity needed to... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (heyjt) http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3233 Sun, 06 Aug 2006 10:07:48 GMT http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3234/t/Electric-dreams-.html Just found this on the comments to Jeffs latest blog.posted a pic on the "no comments" link for posterity.

Come in Big Oil, your time is up;

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/08/02/notes080206.DTL





Oh my God do they ever... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (slimmouse) http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3234 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:34:53 GMT http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3235/t/Oil-from-Plankton-.html ADVERTISEMENT

Vehicle tests are some time away because the company, Bio Fuel Systems, has not yet tried refining the dark green coloured crude oil phytoplankton turn into, a spokesman said.

Bio Fuel Systems is a wholly Spanish firm, formed this year in eastern Spain after three years of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sarutama) http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3235 Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:51:02 GMT http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3236/t/BlackLight-Power-Inc.html

Article at Guardian Unlimited

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Fuel's paradise? Power source... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (bvonahsen) http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3236 Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:24:31 GMT http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3237/t/Nuclear-bombs-as-oil-drilling-tools.html www.theoildrum.com/story/.../9310#more

Maybe this is one to watch out for in the future,

The need for a relatively rapidly available resource to allow us to continue being able to supply the worlds needs for oil, even as it increases into the future, will require some fairly rapid and agile production of resources, and as I... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (friend catcher) http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3237 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 14:25:04 GMT http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3238/t/A-Short-Highly-Insightful-History-of-Big-Oil-1860-2000.html
www.geology.ucdavis.edu/~...13oil.html

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Kuwait and Iraq were usually chosen as the producers to have low production rates: from 1958-1972, their production... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (stickdog99) http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/3238 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:11:24 GMT