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Yes I do. By the way did you know there's supposed to be a comet heading for earth in 2012??

If this does change things what will?

Don't forget that Woodmac, CERA et al are consultancies that exist to service oil companies. They have to tell oil companies that there is potential growth in their businesses otherwise they ain't goin' to get any work.

Vortex, I have in my back garden exactly what you want. I read a good book on digging water wells by hand first, which I think you can get on DODGY TAX AVOIDERS. I have a shallow well/ spring box. I dug it by hand to around 5.5 ft deep, 1.2m diameter and lined it with concrete rings that are normall...

I didn't know we knew enough about the sun to predict these things 4 years ahead. Why can't we get tomorrows weather right?

Glad to see this subject raised, because I'm after somnething similar. This time it is to stop my donkeys from churning up their paddock during the winter. At the moment I use tree-bark from a sawmill, with limited success. I would like some sort of matting that would let grass grow through in the s...

So the US will add Cuba to the list of countries it wants to invade....

As we can't directly measure oil volumes in the rocks the estimated reserves are inferred quantities from other measurements. Statistics are routinely used to help quantify the probability that an oilfield will ultimately produce a given quantity of oil. Thus we talk of P50 reserves having a 50% pro...

Damn, I knew that I shouldn't have put in for that pay rise!!

Vortex, No I don't share your optimism. Science and technology has developed since the Middle Ages because clever people were able to devote their time to making observations, postulating theories.... and the rest is history. The point I wish to make is that these people could do this because they d...

I don't understand what Branson is expecting. We have the technology to extract CO2 from air, It is done routinely when air is separated into its constituents parts like nitrogen, oxygen and argon. However it takes a lot of energy to do this. We also already know how to extract CO2 from flue gases.

No power cuts up here yet!

Ehm I don't think so. SA sounds like wishful thinking. Bahrain hasn't found any new oil, its just extracting the oil it has already found.

If I remember the word from the IPCC is that the gulf stream will not stop, though it will probably slow down. I also agree that the gulf stream does not directly affect our climate that much. The British Isles are heated primarily by solar radiation and geothermal energy. Secondly, the prevailing S...

I'll second that. Gold like every other material or property has no real intrinsic value, other than what people are prepared to pay for it on the day.

Can't do 7th, but I'm around on the 5th. I see from their website and my tube map that they're on my route from London Bridge to Euston where I catch the Sleeper train, rather than fly these days. Any other takers?