Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
05-24-2011, 08:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar
Anyone got any good AE rumors. If this going to be an advancement, or displacement, bid?
05-24-2011, 08:25 AM
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Heyas,
Most "green" energy is nothing but a scam to soak Uncle Sucker. It neither has the energy density or the reliability to be any realistic alternative.
If you look at the total life cycle costs, energy output and peak generation capacity there's nothing out there to replace what we already have...nukes and natural gas.
Windmills, ethanol, gas from poop...it's all fluff.
It's remarkable how we've allowed ourselves to be crippled by this sideshow crap. Did you know that we no long have access to ANY plutonium for our planetary science probes? We no longer operate any reactors that make the stuff, and the last little bit we used we had to buy from the Russians. And they're not selling anymore.
4th and 5th Generation fisson plants along with re-processing of the fuel would eliminate practically all of the waste concerns. Natural gas for the mobile market.
The prize at the end of this game is fusion. It IS doable, but it's going to take a lot of really smart people to make it happen.
Nu
Most "green" energy is nothing but a scam to soak Uncle Sucker. It neither has the energy density or the reliability to be any realistic alternative.
If you look at the total life cycle costs, energy output and peak generation capacity there's nothing out there to replace what we already have...nukes and natural gas.
Windmills, ethanol, gas from poop...it's all fluff.
It's remarkable how we've allowed ourselves to be crippled by this sideshow crap. Did you know that we no long have access to ANY plutonium for our planetary science probes? We no longer operate any reactors that make the stuff, and the last little bit we used we had to buy from the Russians. And they're not selling anymore.
4th and 5th Generation fisson plants along with re-processing of the fuel would eliminate practically all of the waste concerns. Natural gas for the mobile market.
The prize at the end of this game is fusion. It IS doable, but it's going to take a lot of really smart people to make it happen.
Nu
05-24-2011, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by satchip
Yes it has but not by whom you think. The enviro lobby and now our government artificially keeps the price of oil high so as to justify their throwing money down the rat hole of "green energy". The free nations of the world with proven oil reserves are being stymied and hamstrung from bringing that oil to market. The less than free countries of the world are under no such restraints.
Which bring us to Brazil. A "free" country is developing a huge oil reserve off shore. Funded and subsidized by the US Taxpayer. Did you know that George Soros has a huge investment in Petrobras? Things that make you go hmmmm.
U.S. Loan to Brazilian Oil Company Riles Conservatives in Favor of Offshore Drilling - FoxNews.com
Which bring us to Brazil. A "free" country is developing a huge oil reserve off shore. Funded and subsidized by the US Taxpayer. Did you know that George Soros has a huge investment in Petrobras? Things that make you go hmmmm.
U.S. Loan to Brazilian Oil Company Riles Conservatives in Favor of Offshore Drilling - FoxNews.com
05-24-2011, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Columbia
I think they're waiting for the results/outfall of the Iceland volcano eruption. And then the official hurricane forecast, and then.....
It's gonna be a small clean up end, but the one after that is gonna be the MOAEOTW.
05-24-2011, 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by iceman49
Soros is a favorite whipping boy of conservatives because of his early financial help to the liberal group MoveOn.org.
05-24-2011, 08:53 AM
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Things are turning political in here quick nowadays, which is great. I love a good fist fight.
05-24-2011, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Columbia
No thanks-I don't normally like to leave the US to vacation.
05-24-2011, 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Thrust Normal
Touche, but I'm just saying...they're pumping a lot of oil up there.
05-24-2011, 10:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Columbia
Well they are a Red state, unlike California or Mass that don't want to see another well offshore.
July 22, 2009
Occidental Petroleum Announces Significant California Oil and Gas Discovery
"We believe this to be the largest new oil and gas discovery made in California in more than 35 years," said Dr. Ray R. Irani, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Occidental Petroleum Corporation.
"It is probable that there are additional reserves outside the defined area, and it is possible that structures of this type exist elsewhere in Oxy's 1.1 million net acre position in California. We plan to drill wells to exploit these opportunities over the next 5 to 10 years," Dr. Irani said.
Occidental Petroleum Announces Significant California Oil and Gas Discovery
"We believe this to be the largest new oil and gas discovery made in California in more than 35 years," said Dr. Ray R. Irani, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Occidental Petroleum Corporation.
"It is probable that there are additional reserves outside the defined area, and it is possible that structures of this type exist elsewhere in Oxy's 1.1 million net acre position in California. We plan to drill wells to exploit these opportunities over the next 5 to 10 years," Dr. Irani said.
Cheers
George
FYI: New wells going in at record pace, especially since MS crude started trading at a premium above WTI...
05-24-2011, 10:32 AM
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Controller Found Innocent in Brazilian Midair
By: Richard Pedicini
May 24, 2011
In an unexpected verdict announced late last week, Brazilian federal judge Murilo Mendes found air traffic controller Jomarcelo Fernandes dos Santos not guilty in the midair collision between the Embraer Legacy 600 and Gol Airlines Boeing 737-800 over the Amazon in September 2006. Fernandes dos Santos was responsible for controlling the two aircraft at the time of the accident, but Mendes found him innocent because he was “not qualified…to even come near a console.
The judge then called for a criminal investigation of those who approved Fernandes dos Santos. Mendes also said air traffic control software flaws played a role, changing aircraft altitudes on the console without the controller’s consent.
Mendes said the flaws were previously known, so he also called for a criminal investigation into those who had found that ATC software placed aviation at risk but had failed to order corrections. A second controller Tibúrcio de Alencar, was found guilty of “endangering aviation” for failing to program the proper frequencies on his console, which prevented him from hearing 12 radio transmissions from the business jet in the minutes before the collision, which killed all 154 on board the Gol airliner.
By: Richard Pedicini
May 24, 2011
In an unexpected verdict announced late last week, Brazilian federal judge Murilo Mendes found air traffic controller Jomarcelo Fernandes dos Santos not guilty in the midair collision between the Embraer Legacy 600 and Gol Airlines Boeing 737-800 over the Amazon in September 2006. Fernandes dos Santos was responsible for controlling the two aircraft at the time of the accident, but Mendes found him innocent because he was “not qualified…to even come near a console.
The judge then called for a criminal investigation of those who approved Fernandes dos Santos. Mendes also said air traffic control software flaws played a role, changing aircraft altitudes on the console without the controller’s consent.
Mendes said the flaws were previously known, so he also called for a criminal investigation into those who had found that ATC software placed aviation at risk but had failed to order corrections. A second controller Tibúrcio de Alencar, was found guilty of “endangering aviation” for failing to program the proper frequencies on his console, which prevented him from hearing 12 radio transmissions from the business jet in the minutes before the collision, which killed all 154 on board the Gol airliner.
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