With spot oil prices surging to $120 a barrel (futures remain over $100 through 2016), a shortage of electrical generation capacity across the world, and hugely wasteful Chinese and other emerging market demand for all kinds of fossil fuels from coal to LNG, we are clearly approaching some kind of tipping point for our current energy paradigm. I'd be a seller of current prices which result from a speculative bubble in commodities, but probably a buyer of 2016 futures; worldwide demand for...
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So as I had discussed in my previous blog I was looking to put balance a certain structure around topics with the spontaneity (read: chaos) that people are used to from me. Going back to a thread about my typical MO around life, experimenting and looking for the next opportunity to do some serious “ocean boiling”, I wanted to go back to my concept of “farmable” energy.First, let me throw out a thought to set a context for your reading, farming produce. Growing oranges in the Northeast...
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Gas is about $4.00 a gallon where I live, almost twice what it was a year ago. So what? If you are considering a hybrid, it is a pretty big so what. When I was considering the costs and benefits of hybrids a year ago, I came to the reasoned conclusion that there was little economic benefit to be had. The clear reason was that cost savings from using less fuel didn't cover the acquisition cost. Most hybrids tend to several thousand dollars more than their non-hybrid siblings. The US...
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Leadership, Organization and Knowledge ManagementBy Robin Trehan, B.A, MIB, MBA electronic business A dynamic leadership is a necessity for sharing knowledge. Throughout the knowledge process, leaders concern themselves with the following questions: What needs to change and why? How do we build the necessary connection between people and ideas? How will we create a community of people who are ready and willing to act? For leadership to find what, how and why answers, leadership needs...
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Can a small group of university researchers triumph over a big national laboratory in a competition to build and operate a $550 million piece of scientific machinery? The competition pits physicists at Michigan State University against the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory...
Celebrate Moon Day by submitting astrophotos to MyDiscoveredUniverse.com . The physics forum is celebrating the anniversary of Neil Armstrong ' s historic walk on the moon by calling for submissions of ...
The only remaining U.S. lab dedicated to particle physics won't have to impose involuntary layoffs this month after getting a last-minute infusion of government money. Author: Adrian Cho
Maria S. M. Wesslen The direct sum decomposition of tensor products for [fraktur s][fraktur u](3) has many applications in physics, and the problem has been studied extensively. This has resulted in many decomposition methods, each with its advantages and disadvantages. The description given...