Today XKCD had a lovely little cartoon about a forum for perpetual motion machines, still going after 8 years. They're a wonderfully insane subject that crazy people inevitably drift into. Not being interested in them is often a sign of sanity, if you ever wondered about your own mental health. Those places also attract con men and I think that's ( Read more... )

Found originally on New York Magazine's Vulture Blog.


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Consider this to be a follow-up to oil prices dropping 10 percent. All stories from WOOD-TV's YouTube channel.

First, the stories before the drop in oil prices last week.

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Gasoline averaged around $4.29 per gallon in West Michigan on Tuesday night, but there are several ways to avoid paying the wholesale price.
( See if you notice any theme tying the rest of these videos to high gas prices. )

A few days ago, I described how oil prices dropped and stocks went up on news of bin Ladin's death. I also said that it wouldn't last, a view shared by Kunstler.
This morning, Bloomberg is putting out a story that the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil dropped - from $113 to 112 - because Bin Laden was tossed into the sea. How long will ( Read more... )

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L.A. Times: Oil prices climb on unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Yemen
Traders are buying up futures in case the anti-government sentiment disrupts output in the area's oil-rich countries, analysts say.
By Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times
January 29, 2011

Oil prices surged Friday as concerns mounted that anti-government protests in Tunisia, ( Read more... )

The Tyee (Canada): Idea #1: The Green Hawks Are Coming
Who's super serious about renewable energy and repelling climate change? The US military, of all people.
By Andrew Nikiforuk, 20 Dec 2010, TheTyee.ca

One of these days, Ottawa's oil patch salesmen might want to sit down with the U.S. military and have a real "man-up" talk ( Read more... )

Left as a comment on theferrett's LJ.

the media's always shouting that...Peak Oil's coming

You just hit a pet peeve of mine.

First, Peak Oil has barely scratched the surface of the corporate media's attention. Even though a search of Google News yields a lot of hits, nearly all are from blogs or from small or specialized publications. The hits from the ( Read more... )

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End of Suburbia VOST sur Yahoo! Vidéo

Tuesday night and tonight, I showed my students "The End of Suburbia." The most memorable reactions were "I never understood how anyone was going to make hydrogen work for running cars," "What a shame Americans are so spoiled. The end of oil is going to take away their toys and they'll all cry.", and "Should we ( Read more... )