tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post60444638892541807..comments2024-03-22T05:15:17.042+02:00Comments on Sudden Debt: Calling ArchimedesHellasioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03564511281240682625noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-888950779867243912009-11-24T01:57:18.166+02:002009-11-24T01:57:18.166+02:00"Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer Prize winner ab..."Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer Prize winner about how oil companies and producers came to dominate our world."<br /><br />Hmmmm...interesting statement devoid of any truth. As far my tiny brain can process information, banking companies had been dominating the world for last 150 years (entire life-span of oil). Even though Rockefeller was lot wealthier than JP Morgan, JP was lot more powerful. In recent times, did you find US government change all kinds of rules to protect XOM from releasing toxic materials into the environment?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-49812669387421307162009-11-19T14:12:46.858+02:002009-11-19T14:12:46.858+02:00(Audible sound of thumbs twiddling...)
Hell... are...(Audible sound of thumbs twiddling...)<br />Hell... are you suffering from that quintessential writer's illness, the... blank page syndrome ?<br />The pack wants to get its teeth into the next... post.Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510189619803992336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-45701742978186226332009-11-18T23:42:27.482+02:002009-11-18T23:42:27.482+02:00Looking forward to a post on the dollar. SD was lo...Looking forward to a post on the dollar. SD was looking for strength 6 months ago.shtovenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-23181967380253551182009-11-17T16:20:21.877+02:002009-11-17T16:20:21.877+02:00"It's all about guilt, fajensen..."
..."It's all about guilt, fajensen..."<br /><br />What some might call a conscience? No detectable imperialist overtones emanating from his eminence, none whatsoever!yoyomohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06357340275250708990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-26735696763109751822009-11-14T01:58:04.534+02:002009-11-14T01:58:04.534+02:00Ah, Yes. Debt-fueled Infrastructure spending will ...Ah, Yes. Debt-fueled Infrastructure spending will replace debt-fueled consumer spending and we will all be happy. Gotta keep those banks cranking out the loans.<br /><br />It doesn't matter that we still have all our current infrastructure to maintain and pay for; let's build a whole new set of wires and power plants. Gotta keep those construction workers busy.Advant Guardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13724697741711826082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-90967924886915521072009-11-13T17:56:15.618+02:002009-11-13T17:56:15.618+02:00It's all about guilt, fajensen...It's all about guilt, fajensen...Hellasioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03564511281240682625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-30611162360832120142009-11-13T14:38:03.054+02:002009-11-13T14:38:03.054+02:00fed up with the interminable fallout from European...<i>fed up with the interminable fallout from European colonization,</i><br /><br />If Only, If Only ... <br /><br />In My Opion, we are fed up with each other. Africa is always in some state of messy brokeness compared to Europe so the doo-gooders and world-improvers will just never run out of projects to inflict upon the taxpayers here and the population there. <br /><br />IMO, We would like each other MUCH more if we stopped telling each other how to live and just satisficed ourselves with going as tourist and marvel over the strange ways of the foreign people.fajensennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-70679499207068622692009-11-13T09:46:25.654+02:002009-11-13T09:46:25.654+02:00As a European, I sometimes get the feeling that Af...As a European, I sometimes get the feeling that Africa, at least is... fed up with the interminable fallout from European colonization, and the ill disguised contempt that European leaders (at least French leaders, excepting Jacques Chirac...) show for the "dark" continent. <br />We will see if all of us "nantis" manage to continue pulling the wool over our cousins' eyes, by once again pillaging THEIR resources for OUR comfort.Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510189619803992336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-54410901222427497852009-11-13T09:34:49.937+02:002009-11-13T09:34:49.937+02:00We have huge tracts of BLM Land here in the south ...We have huge tracts of BLM Land here in the south western deserts and also several solar power complexes running, so I think the future is brighter than you might you might think for solar power here, especially if we can double up with desalination, two birds with one stone if ever there was one.macflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17068586198376155280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-15182054992904793102009-11-13T05:00:02.626+02:002009-11-13T05:00:02.626+02:00Reminds me of the fact that Denmark gets about 20%...Reminds me of the fact that Denmark gets about 20% of its electricity from wind power; and that Germany gets about 22 GW from wind power, which is about 150% the amount for all the US combined.<br /><br />This shouldn't be the case; it should be an area for improvement as the US has huge areas to put up wind farms.Trebuchethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09985664863838276012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-9767028672945762232009-11-13T01:09:49.515+02:002009-11-13T01:09:49.515+02:00Oh yeah, the US has it easy as we don't need t...Oh yeah, the US has it easy as we don't need to worry so much about items 1 & 2. But of course we rather spend our cash on projects that generate absolutely no long term dividends. Looks like Obama is even crazier than GWB, too bad.yoskienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-15941964059768759482009-11-13T01:04:50.155+02:002009-11-13T01:04:50.155+02:00A few thoughts.
1. After a couple of trillion Euro...A few thoughts.<br />1. After a couple of trillion Euros in investment you want to be sure no local dictator takes over your project. ie. you need to own the ground it is build on which could prove difficult and/or costly.<br />2. You need to guard the place 24/7. Northern Africa is full of people that would like to blow your stuff up.<br />3. You need to get the electricity from northern Aftrica through the Mediterranian to Europe. This is actually a much bigger challenge than the solar power plant. It can be accomplished via direct current high voltage lines. They lose "only" about 5% per 1000 miles. So you're looking at about a 10% drop.<br /><br />Points 1 - 3 are very crucial but nothing a couple of trillion dollar couldn't solve. The kind of money we spend on banksters, C4C, wars and other ill conceived projects.<br />By the way Uncle Sam went $176 billion in the hole just for the month of October.<br />http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/12/news/economy/treasury_monthly_deficit/index.htmyoskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-3088817177869344802009-11-12T21:27:29.901+02:002009-11-12T21:27:29.901+02:00Sigh... let's be optimistic.
Huge infrastructu...Sigh... let's be optimistic.<br />Huge infrastructure expenses = levying taxes at a time when propaganda has made them a dirty word.<br />And... "nonessential consumer spending" ??? <br />Does that mean "the arts" get axed ?<br />I already feel persecuted with a liberal arts education...Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510189619803992336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-20986709749764403522009-11-12T20:32:48.212+02:002009-11-12T20:32:48.212+02:00" system and board designer with stream plant..." system and board designer with stream plant experience and almost zero chances of working on a job like this"<br /><br />Odd coincidence, but this article was on seattletimes.com <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010245779_combinedpower11.html" rel="nofollow"> yesterday </a>.<br /><br />*yesterday's last commenter ("anonymous"), is this the global game changer you were referring to?Dinknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-47367779849847022042009-11-12T19:51:07.039+02:002009-11-12T19:51:07.039+02:00@EEngineer:
Well this is a project for Europe, no...@EEngineer:<br /><br />Well this is a project for Europe, not the US. Point taken, however.<br /><br />Regardless, nothing's stopping you from exploring options with those companies!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-27424888572057568072009-11-12T19:02:56.236+02:002009-11-12T19:02:56.236+02:00And of course US companies are conspicuously absen...And of course US companies are conspicuously absent from that list. It makes me want to scream. Here I sit, a system and board designer with stream plant experience and almost zero chances of working on a job like this because this country has no real energy policy other than "drill baby, drill".EEngineernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-19777794306326163472009-11-12T18:00:13.936+02:002009-11-12T18:00:13.936+02:00Looks like Archimedes' burning glass is making...Looks like Archimedes' burning glass is making a comeback a few thousand years later. We will see if it pans out.Heracleidesnoreply@blogger.com