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To replace oil (with the less than 100% efficient conversion involved), and meet the still growing demand for NG, and continue to replace coal for electricity production, the supply of NG worldwide would need to at least triple, and that simply isn't going to happen. Agreed. I also think that it is...

Greece is heavily militarised? Forgive my ignorance.

Yeah, I would bet on clothing and shoes, as well as most of the other stuff mentioned in the thread, but yeah, blankets deffo!

I kept thinking that global warming meant that the weather was going to get warmer everywhere, not colder, damn it! It's been bloody raining here for like a month and very little sunshine. I can't exist in such conditions!

It's just one after the other, isn't it? Riots, oil spills... I've always been very appalled (I'm not sure that's the right word to describe it, but let's go with this) at the whole oil tanker idea - I mean, given how often oil spills happen and what they mean for the environment, isn't there a bett...

Hats off to you, thinking about investments in a time of financial insecurity :) No, seriously, I mean it, cause my friend deals with heat pumps and hit a massive pullback in orders, because people are too afraid to invest big amounts of money even at the promise they will be repayed soon. Oh the su...

Did anyone see this yet? Is it any good? I suppose near future doesn't necessarily mean the next 50 years, does it? We're surely headed for a bit of a crisis sooner than that. I read somewhere it was said in the next few years (I don't remember anything too good, so no judgement if I got it wrong) t...

Latest thing I read was that it is now apparently slowly spreading towards Coventry, given its proximity to Birmingham. What happened to the water cannons and army plans? Am I the only one who is missing this in the articles? I understand the point of the situation not being reflected equally throug...

You can bet the words, "Can we use this to our advantage?" have been said. Some time ago Chris Rock said: "All the stuff goin' on in the news, it's just a trick to get your mind off the war. That's all it is. A trick to get your mind off the war. Okay? I think Bush sent that girl to ...

Is it truly a global phenomenon, though, or is it more concentrated in countries where one would have enough time to think about riotting? In other words, poor countries like Bulgaria, Romania and the rest of Eastern Europe have youth which is already working, probably starving, some have probably l...

It may be hard to believe that this inevitable, momentous, once-in-a-species point is being reached now, rather than 100 years in the future, but all the signs are that this is the case. You argument is like someone who's survived two heart attacks concluding that heart attacks aren't dangerous. Ye...

On the subject of the Mayan calendar, I personally think they just got tired of counting. As to the news mayhem, I wouldn't exactly go as far as to say that this is the first time this has happened and that is a coincidence with the year 2012, there have been other examples in history where there we...

I think it's a smarter and more comfortable idea to have the cyclists share the road with specific bike lanes, rather than share the pavement with pedestrians. The reason for this is that despite being slower than cars, they are faster than people and given that pedestrians usually make sudden turns...

That would require some prolonged and very dedicated digging, kenneal :lol: I agree about the geothermal is not renewable point. My friend has a website that deals with like geothermal energy and he keeps writing renewable energy sources, yet I am inclined to believe that just because something hasn...