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| Chavez opens world's largest soup kitchen | |
| 2007-09-16 | |
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| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #8 Actually, they only need $100M. And the Chileans are already on to it. Details at their website on Focus Fusion. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2007-09-16 21:38 |
| #7 HydroCarbon based fuels will continue to be economically imortant in the transportation market for a long time to come. For comercial aviation I really do not see any way to replace them with H2 as attractive as that may be due to storage problems. But IF (an admittedly big if) we had a sufficently cheap form of electrical generation we could manufacture the fuels from the base elements on an industrial scale. Plus as the price of oil goes up (and it will) such fuels would become ever more attractive. Cheap enough electical generation would allow the production of truely viable electric vehicles that would at first provide an atternative to hydrocarbon fueled vehicles and then at a later date largely replace them. Tue electrics face range abd battery costs for replacements but there are other means to run an electric. Envision a conductive pick-up on the bottom of the vehicle with power cables buried in the roadway. Get on the interstate and when you get off a transmitter in the car sends the information to a reciver at the exit and it goes into your account balance. True they could be able to track your movements but with credit and debit cards much less internet use the ability to track poeple to day has greatly expanded. For the generation capacity take your pick. As I understand it an area 100 miles on a side could supply all of the current electrical needs of the US. Even without resorting to carpting over 10 or 40 thousand square miles of the desert south west how much land is avialable in the Us on highway right ot ways? In power plant terms I would throw 500M$ at this http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606 If it works fine. It it doesn't, well we piss away a hell of a lot more money on hairspay and such every year. But finding a way to break the hydro-carbon economic cycle is the key to getting rid of asholes like this and defeating the Islamofacists IMO |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2007-09-16 13:55 |
| #6 Gorb- How 'bout "Chavezian Stew" next time? Actually, I was thinking, Chavezlent Green.... Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2007-09-16 10:46 |
| #5 Who'd he |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-09-16 10:18 |
| #4 Chavez opens world's largest soup kitchen Venezuela is the world's largest soup kitchen... |
| Posted by: badanov 2007-09-16 06:16 |
| #3 Venezuela's economy will collapse if the price of crude oil tumbles. Alternative energy will eventually be this dictator's undoing unless his arrogance upends him first: Science turns sun, surf into green energy http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/science-turns-sun-surf-into-green-energy/2007/03/20/1174153066798.html |
| Posted by: Thrineng Munster6911 2007-09-16 04:14 |
| #2 How 'bout "Chavezian Stew" next time? |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-09-16 03:58 |
| #1 The country is sitting on a lake of oil, and yet this is what counts as progress. |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2007-09-16 03:19 |