Breakthroughs on this and other new technologies will help us reach another great goal: to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025. (Applause.) By applying the talent and technology of America, this country can dramatically improve our environment, move beyond a petroleum-based economy, and make our dependence on Middle Eastern oil a thing of the past. (Applause.)
I showed some of the town planners End of Suburbia, and they watched it.
MattSavinar wrote:For those who are curious: I banned this guy from the LATOC forum for posting links to illegal copies of Crude Awakening.
He spends a disturbing amount of time and energy obsessing over me now here at PO.com. He should know I'm heavily armed and prepared to defend myself should he get any wise ideas about taking his beef with me off the forum and into real life.
AirlinePilot wrote: I know it sounds a bit silly but I just watched the movie "The Postman" and it struck me that a generation after any worldwide collapse this is the sort of thing one could envision evolving from PO.
Simply put, Brown says the world hasn’t been taking into account the rapidly rising consumption of oil in the very countries the world depends on to export large quantities of crude – places like Saudi Arabia and Russia. With oil consumption rising in these oil-producing states – and with production looking like it is declining – Brown says the amount of oil available for export globally is about to plummet, setting off what he calls a net export crisis that threatens the global economy and will lead to sweeping social and economic changes in the United States.
Under the first of the new contracts announced today, GE will supply 20 Frame 9E gas turbines to Kharafi National of Kuwait for the Sabiya Power Station, which will add more than 2.5 gigawatts of power capacity for the State of Kuwait. The new power plant will be owned and operated by Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity & Water.
This will be an emergency power, fast-track project with an aggressive delivery schedule. The gas turbines will be manufactured at GE’s facilities in Belfort, France, with shipments to the project site planned for October 2007 through June 2008. The commissioning phase for the new units is expected to begin in May 2008 and be completed in September 2008.
The Sabiya plant will operate in simple-cycle base load mode, initially using liquid fuel with plans to switch to natural gas when it becomes available in approximately three years.
Reuters wrote:KUWAIT, July 10 (Reuters) - Kuwait on Tuesday stepped up a campaign of text messages to its inhabitants to conserve electricity, warning power generation was nearly at breakpoint.
"Only 4 percent electricity remains!!," Kuwait's Ministry of Water and Electricity told inhabitants in text messages in English and Arabic, advising people not to use some electrical appliances before evening.
Call centres have been calling offices and apartments in the past two weeks and urging them to turn down air conditioners.
"Do you know that you should switch off your A/C in unused rooms. Please do it," a woman told the Reuters office.
aflatoxin wrote:I think the 5k per hour for the frame 9 units running at 125 MW is pretty close. If I was at work, I could look up the real values, I will if there is real interest.
Just think, they can burn 120,000 barrels a day at this place. Wow.
Twilight wrote:Therefore I would like to bring this to people's attention as an Export Land Effect case study validating the Export Land Model, and also as an interesting unexpected event which I believe will be felt.
Starvid wrote:...Hence the famous "alligator jaws" graph.
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