[waegari]

I really do hope you guys are joking, because there's nothing politically fishy about this: Korea has been getting its share of tropical storms since times immemorial. And yes they can be devastating, but it's always the South that gets the full load.

[Bleep]

I really do hope you guys are joking,

Well I did use and

[KevO]

Well I did use and

so would Jack Bauer

[Bleep]

Well there does seem to be a second storm hot on the tail of the first one. I think it's a bad time to be Korean.

[SoothSayer]

no doubt this cyclone is 'manufactured'.
We've been doing it for years. Evidence that the RAF did it 17 YEARS before man went to the moon. I mean what must they be able to do now?
but this may suggest that the increase in US hurricanes is being done by the Chinese? have they Haarp?


"We've been doing it for years". Hey guys give me a break - I already have my hands full trying to deprogram people who have been infected by the dreaded "7/7 is a conspiracy" and "9/11 is a conspiracy" memes.



I can do without another one ...

I think McAffee and Symantec need to help me out here, by introducing de-memeing products, together with an update service. They would be kept busy!


Update: The first de-meming product has now been released! It is aimed at fixing a single problem, but the manufacturer says a 711 version is due out soon.

[Bleep]

[Gazzatrone]

Well I did use and

so would Jack Bauer

Only after he'd killed you in 5 different ways without you knowing it.

[strider3700]

[
I think McAffee and Symantec need to help me out here, by introducing de-memeing products, together with an update service. They would be kept busy!

McAffee and Symantec produce (through side companies of course) most of the virus's that their products fix. This is how they're able to find a cure for something that noone else has even detected in most cases. They'd be completely powerless against something out of their control.

[SoothSayer]

McAffee and Symantec produce (through side companies of course) most of the virus's that their products fix.

Well, I'll be jiggered! Those dang conspiracy thangs be just about doggone everywhur.

A swarm of conspiracy memes attacking a web surfer

[TITAN]

Yes, the official 911 conspiracy IS rediculous!

I can't believe anyone with any analytical ability could actually believe 911 was caused by 19 poorly trained, crappy pilots; armed with those dreadfully deadly BOXCUTTERS!!!

[lotrfan55345]

they have their telco and electricity wires under the ground.

no worries.

[Bleep]

Okinawa feels Ewiniar’s force; new storm develops to the south
...Ewiniar initially was forecast to make landfall on Korea’s southwest coast but the latest JTWC forecast instead has the storm passing well west of Osan, Kunsan and Seoul, making landfall near the North Korea-China border about 3 a.m. Tuesday. ...

Bullseye! I can just picture someone with a joystick...

[Graeme]

South Koreans make hydrogen solid for a brighter fuel cell future

While storing hydrogen as a solid by fusing it to titanium isn't an entirely new idea, a team of South Korean scientists look to be the first to find a reliable and efficient method of doing so.

Technology not only manages to bind hydrogen with titanium into the form of a stable solid that has much less requirements for pressure or temperature regulation, but it takes "absolutely no energy input" to store as such, and "relatively small amounts of energy" to extract.

engadget

[MonteQuest]

Wow! Korea is really setting itself up for some changes.
Korea grows more dependent on Gulf oil

Seventy-five percent of the country's imports last year came from the Gulf region, with Saudi Arabia the single-largest source by supplying 29% of South Korea's oil purchases, according to analysis for June...The country was the second-largest importer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2005, with consumption of natural gas growing rapidly in the last decade.

Link
Then...
Saudi maintains Asia oil supply curbs for July

Saudi Arabia will supply crude oil to Japan and South Korea at about 9,5-10,0% below contracted volumes in July, the same as June, two Japanese industry sources and one South Korean source said today.

Link

[MonteQuest]

And to top it off, they are dreaming of cheap oil again.

Key Insights On The Oil & Gas Sector Of South Korea

For the whole of last year, our preliminary estimates of average prices are US$61.30 per barrel for the OPEC basket, US$65.03 for Brent, US$66.24/bbl for WTI and US$61.30 for Urals. For 2007, the revised BMI forecasts are for the OPEC basket to average US$55 per barrel. Based on last year’s typical price differentials, this implies Brent at US$58.72, WTI averaging US$59.94/bbl, and Urals at US$55 per barrel. Our central view is that the OPEC basket price will slip from US$55/bbl this year to US$50 in 2008, before settling around US$45/bbl in 2009/2010.

http://www.businessmonitor.com/oilgas/southkorea.html

[Twilight]

I worry about SE Asia. Energy awareness there seems to be the lowest in the industrial world. Not that anyone else can boast, but that's what makes it so unsettling.

[Graeme]

S.Korea, U.S. agree to jointly develop gas hydrate

South Korea and the United States have agreed to jointly develop gas hydrates and seek ways to commercially tap the resource, Seoul's Energy Ministry said on Monday.

The statement of intent, signed by South Korea's Minister of Knowledge Economy Lee Youn-ho and U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, calls for cooperation in gas hydrate exploration, developing viable means to use the resource, conducting field tests and exchanging personnel and data, the ministry said.

Sources at the ministry said the new pact could open the door for South Korean companies to participate in the Alaska North Slope project which will test-produce gas hydrates from 2009.

In November, South Korea found a deposit of gas hydrate that may hold up to 600 million tonnes in the East Sea, large enough to meet the country's LNG needs for 30 years.

reuters

[JustaGirl]

This seems like good news, no?

[whereagles]

Is this the methane hydride deep undersea bed? If so, god help us!!!!!!

[Laurasia]

Is this the methane hydride deep undersea bed? If so, god help us!!!!!!

I agree!