You need a copy of the $50 and Up Underground House Book.. I read this in the 80s so it doesn't seem they've adjusted for inflation; still, a rude hole in a hill using PVC pipes for supports can't set you back that much.
That makes it sound as if cave dwelling was the norm for humans in the Pleistocene. Actually the reason prehistoric people seemed to dwell in caves is because all the above ground structures they resided in disintegrated in short order, which only makes sense when you think about it. Cave dwelling likely was the exception to the rule, given how uncommon suitable caves are in the first place - the loess plateau in China is the largest of its kind in the world, so it's not surprising to see people take advantage of its properties.
I'm at a loss why anyone would care whether they paid first or put a card in a machine, filled up, and were charged when they were finished. This seems to be a wholly negligible distinction. Here in Oregon we're still using attendants to fill cars; it would be a fairly minor switch to pumping our own gas. Some would complain, naturally, but it definitely would win out over having our records checked with each visit.
What happens when the jig is up and you can't pump gas, sorry, I mean petrol, anymore? They revoke your license? You get a fine? Call a cab and say sod it? Think I'll RTFA after lunch...
It's relevant if a leopard brings a foreign object into the ring, brother! Hey, freakshow! You're goin' NOWHERE! I got'cha for three minutes! Three minutes of playtime!
So you have the tech to have cameras that can read license plates, but lack tech to implement pre-pay? Got it. Anybody up in arms over this rather obvious discrepancy?
I think that's supposed to be the Lady Jessica in the sketch of "Feyd from Dune." Feyd was the Sting character; Moebius drew a leggy Veronica Lake-ish blond gal seated on a throne, holding a huge sword. Don't recall Feyd wearing anything gossamer in the film.
Japan was already the #2 nation in the world at burning oil for power; Saudi Arabia was #1, no surprise. #3? Good ol' USA - courtesy Hawaii. Japan is the #3 oil consumer in the world; Japan - Analysis - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The estimate is for them to increase oil consumption ca. 238k barrels per day to make up for the shortfall from offline nukes; oil only provides 10% of their generating capacity. This will add a few % points to the overall price of crude but Iran sanctions and growing demand from developing countries will be larger factors.
Japan also shed 423 kb/d in 2009, due to the recession, so they're simply backtracking to earlier consumption levels.
This covers a span of some 16k years post-apocalypse: The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse. Not perfectly executed but I turned the pages anyway. Also recommended in the same vein: Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker, set in an Iron age Britain some 2000 years from now, and rendered in an almost-unintelligible Late English. This also qualifies more as forgotten, or some what so anyway; after all I'm linking to a tribute page for it. The Great Bay's only a year or two old now; thought I'd throw it in to keep company with Leibowitz etc.
Better to ask what the chances are of the History Channel running a special this year on the Mayan calendar running out, with an expert being consulted on the probability of 2012 also having a massive solar storm. Cue footage of forked lightning in three, two...
Was going to post a thread with a title like "Move to Venezuela" but checked to search the comments for the V word. This chart's from 2008; looks like Tehran led the way for bargains, which situation definitely has changed. Forget if this chart was put together when the price hit its all-time high.
I think you're confusing the trillions of bbls in "oil shale" (most of the US material is marlstone) resources with the light sweet crude oil being extracted in the Bakken Formation and elsewhere. The oil in this case is trapped in very small pockets in the rock; horizontal drilling and hydrofracking the rock releases the oil in quantities large enough to make the process economic. The Bakken Formation itself is shale which has led to no end of confusion on this matter. Someone should have invented a unique term for this type of drilling; "fractured oil"?
It would take much higher oil prices to make processing oil shale economic. This would be a colossal mining operation, with the marlstone being placed in retorts and the crude oil extracted as the marlstone is heated up. You would have very costly environmental impacts with this process, most notably with extremely high use of water, which will likely make the whole issue a non-starter, unless the rest of the country orders Colorado to play ball, and even then states reliant on the Colorado River might take exception to having their supply running down or being filled with all manner of noxious sludge.
One of the major oil companies had an alternative method on the books which would use much less water and leave no huge piles of tailings; enormous heating elements would be sunk into the rock, with a freeze wall around it to keep the oil in place. Instead of water the cost would be in powering the elements for the approximately four years needed to melt the marlstone sufficiently. The figure I recall from papers was 1.3 GW for each 100k barrels of oil, which would necessitate very high oil prices to make economical. They carried out a pilot project about 8 years ago.
Do you mean interurban highways? Around any large city I've been to the lighting is so pervasive that, past dusk, it might as well be 11 AM in June. Were Interstates lit up end-to-end back in the pre-energy crisis days?
A friend of mine has a Jetta, about 8 years old I think, whose headlights turn on automatically, day or night. That a common feature on European makes? I wouldn't want it myself; we Americans reserve the right to drive around sans headlights in pitch darkness, not to mention our proud tradition of senior citizens tooling around with the left turn signal on.
Some people keep their headlights on even on blindingly bright days, to increase the visibility of their cars. Bet there's a study on the efficacy of that tactic.
They're also insensitive clods for not thinking of those of us who suffer from Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy, where seizures are often induced by sleep deprivation. Or not; I've had trouble with myoclonic lapses of conciousness even after getting the full 8 hours of rest. Pretty annoying, although it seems much more under control now that I'm in my 40s.
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Especially if you beef up security around the WOPR.
You need a copy of the $50 and Up Underground House Book.. I read this in the 80s so it doesn't seem they've adjusted for inflation; still, a rude hole in a hill using PVC pipes for supports can't set you back that much.
That makes it sound as if cave dwelling was the norm for humans in the Pleistocene. Actually the reason prehistoric people seemed to dwell in caves is because all the above ground structures they resided in disintegrated in short order, which only makes sense when you think about it. Cave dwelling likely was the exception to the rule, given how uncommon suitable caves are in the first place - the loess plateau in China is the largest of its kind in the world, so it's not surprising to see people take advantage of its properties.
That's what she said.
You should be making productive use of your time and hang out at Slashdong, then.
Well, actually it's just some blog. Rather unfortunate name, too.
Shucks...
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I'm at a loss why anyone would care whether they paid first or put a card in a machine, filled up, and were charged when they were finished. This seems to be a wholly negligible distinction. Here in Oregon we're still using attendants to fill cars; it would be a fairly minor switch to pumping our own gas. Some would complain, naturally, but it definitely would win out over having our records checked with each visit.
What happens when the jig is up and you can't pump gas, sorry, I mean petrol, anymore? They revoke your license? You get a fine? Call a cab and say sod it? Think I'll RTFA after lunch...
Be careful what you say AC, or he might shoot you with his needle gun.
It's relevant if a leopard brings a foreign object into the ring, brother! Hey, freakshow! You're goin' NOWHERE! I got'cha for three minutes! Three minutes of playtime!
So you have the tech to have cameras that can read license plates, but lack tech to implement pre-pay? Got it. Anybody up in arms over this rather obvious discrepancy?
And if it isn't sunny out? Won't someone think of the Inuit?
#blubber for dinner again lol same thing every night for 56 years now lol wish theyd leave me out on an ice floe and get it over with lol
Yes, we all know what meteors sound like as they pass through the air.
I think that's supposed to be the Lady Jessica in the sketch of "Feyd from Dune." Feyd was the Sting character; Moebius drew a leggy Veronica Lake-ish blond gal seated on a throne, holding a huge sword. Don't recall Feyd wearing anything gossamer in the film.
He's worth every penny.
Japan was already the #2 nation in the world at burning oil for power; Saudi Arabia was #1, no surprise. #3? Good ol' USA - courtesy Hawaii. Japan is the #3 oil consumer in the world; Japan - Analysis - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The estimate is for them to increase oil consumption ca. 238k barrels per day to make up for the shortfall from offline nukes; oil only provides 10% of their generating capacity. This will add a few % points to the overall price of crude but Iran sanctions and growing demand from developing countries will be larger factors.
Japan also shed 423 kb/d in 2009, due to the recession, so they're simply backtracking to earlier consumption levels.
This covers a span of some 16k years post-apocalypse: The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse. Not perfectly executed but I turned the pages anyway. Also recommended in the same vein: Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker, set in an Iron age Britain some 2000 years from now, and rendered in an almost-unintelligible Late English. This also qualifies more as forgotten, or some what so anyway; after all I'm linking to a tribute page for it. The Great Bay's only a year or two old now; thought I'd throw it in to keep company with Leibowitz etc.
Better to ask what the chances are of the History Channel running a special this year on the Mayan calendar running out, with an expert being consulted on the probability of 2012 also having a massive solar storm. Cue footage of forked lightning in three, two...
Was going to post a thread with a title like "Move to Venezuela" but checked to search the comments for the V word. This chart's from 2008; looks like Tehran led the way for bargains, which situation definitely has changed. Forget if this chart was put together when the price hit its all-time high.
I think you're confusing the trillions of bbls in "oil shale" (most of the US material is marlstone) resources with the light sweet crude oil being extracted in the Bakken Formation and elsewhere. The oil in this case is trapped in very small pockets in the rock; horizontal drilling and hydrofracking the rock releases the oil in quantities large enough to make the process economic. The Bakken Formation itself is shale which has led to no end of confusion on this matter. Someone should have invented a unique term for this type of drilling; "fractured oil"?
It would take much higher oil prices to make processing oil shale economic. This would be a colossal mining operation, with the marlstone being placed in retorts and the crude oil extracted as the marlstone is heated up. You would have very costly environmental impacts with this process, most notably with extremely high use of water, which will likely make the whole issue a non-starter, unless the rest of the country orders Colorado to play ball, and even then states reliant on the Colorado River might take exception to having their supply running down or being filled with all manner of noxious sludge.
One of the major oil companies had an alternative method on the books which would use much less water and leave no huge piles of tailings; enormous heating elements would be sunk into the rock, with a freeze wall around it to keep the oil in place. Instead of water the cost would be in powering the elements for the approximately four years needed to melt the marlstone sufficiently. The figure I recall from papers was 1.3 GW for each 100k barrels of oil, which would necessitate very high oil prices to make economical. They carried out a pilot project about 8 years ago.
Muphry's Law at work.
Oh, and: flu, agent, response, cops drill. Brute forcing my mudslide; WMATA?
Learn some thing everyday.
Do you mean interurban highways? Around any large city I've been to the lighting is so pervasive that, past dusk, it might as well be 11 AM in June. Were Interstates lit up end-to-end back in the pre-energy crisis days?
A friend of mine has a Jetta, about 8 years old I think, whose headlights turn on automatically, day or night. That a common feature on European makes? I wouldn't want it myself; we Americans reserve the right to drive around sans headlights in pitch darkness, not to mention our proud tradition of senior citizens tooling around with the left turn signal on.
Some people keep their headlights on even on blindingly bright days, to increase the visibility of their cars. Bet there's a study on the efficacy of that tactic.
They're also insensitive clods for not thinking of those of us who suffer from Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy, where seizures are often induced by sleep deprivation. Or not; I've had trouble with myoclonic lapses of conciousness even after getting the full 8 hours of rest. Pretty annoying, although it seems much more under control now that I'm in my 40s.