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I more or less [url=http://peakoil.com/post604842.html#604842]called it in February. Not that I was alone by any means.

In that thread they were talking about the impact of Kosovo on Russia's think ...

More info on the developing situation this summer at the [url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/70f641ee-5363-11dd-8dd2-000077b07658.html]FT. It's a general overview and won't be surprising to anyone followin ...

As I'm sure you all know, Indonesia is being kicked out of OPEC. From all the information I've gleaned in recent years, it's turning into a real basket case.

Here's an article from last week on the ...

Thanks again to small_steps from me Smile

I hope you're not too tired of all the questions!

Sounds like ABB might be a decent investment choice?

It does indeed look like a superb company, doesn ...

Cars in the EU mostly burn diesel.
This is not true. The usage is much higher, but is not > 50%. More like 25%. But it is rising.
See Figure 1 in [url=http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/eco/es-2 ...

I would have written everything Dezakin just wrote, had he not written it already.

With respect to coal, it's not a question of if, it's a question of "a lot more" or "a humungously large amount mo ...

Fair play to you for a sincere apology.
I guess not all newbies are [i]necessarily[i] chuckleheads, but I can understand how it would get tiresome ... Wink

Just a quick drop in, but instead of converting solar electricity to hydrogen, would it not be more efficient to use it directly in Electric vehicles, rather than losing energy in the process of conve ...

ekaggata: There are 'rules' (laws) governing their charges, which prevent them from passing the costs on to the consumer.
Wow, that's an eye-opener. What exactly do these laws say? That seems to me ...

How plausible is this? :
Due to severe strike action from hauliers all over Europe, itself due to the fact that their business model is collapsing at these diesel prices, European governments are fo ...

The technical details of the chemistry aside, I think there is at least one very plausible/interesting idea here.
We've all (I hope) seen the dramatic picture that shows how tiny an area of land woul ...

[url=http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2008/gb2008069_203821.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_global+business]3 page article.

I mentioned on this forum a few months back that Guangdo ...

My personal favourite:
Well people think they have it hard in Europe, what do you think of the people working in poorer countries, like myself? The poor countries are suffering a lot more than the Eu ...

Several personal anecdotal reports [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7444121.stm]here.

Gives some depth for those of us in other parts of the world.

The graph shows the ability to transmit power vs distance. For DC lines, the only limiting factor is the IR (Current Resistance) drop. So as a line increases in length, the voltage that one sees on o ...