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       #Post#: 1939--------------------------------------------------
       Re: What Happens If Europe Runs Out Of Gas
       By: Phil Potts Date: December 3, 2021, 7:55 pm
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       [quote author=BuddyJ link=topic=49.msg1937#msg1937
       date=1638572399]
       least back then the amateurs weren't in the mix saying silly
       ****, and the internet wasn't there to create them by the
       legions.
       [/quote]
       In which case, feel free to ask for assistance on working out
       whether you are looking at us through a jar with holes in the
       lid, or at a mirror in this study.
       Jim Jones was instructed by Reverend Divine on keeping control
       of Jonestown by identifying a threat and terrorising the flock
       with fear of it. Nobody was explicitly instructed to fear Saddam
       and his WMD or Bin Laden, but you are extremely naive to not
       recognise fear being stoked for consent and control. You had an
       excited Bill Gates on TV talking about millions and millions
       dying, big pictures of virus cells plastered everywhere and
       newsreaders incessantly updating the insignificant numbers of
       dead in grave tones. Clearly that scared enough people to panic
       buy toilet paper until another worse than useless but comforting
       ritual was devised that the suggestible or trusting rushed into
       to feel safe.
       You played Rumpelstiltskin on who a peakoil.com moderator was,
       their age and username who suicided. You said it was due to
       believing in perma doom. Now the only person you mention
       suicuding is Ruppert.
       Your job is to discredit Ruppert and any other threats to the
       govt narrative such as even on this miniscule and
       inconsequential forum. Clearly he was far more than a
       pamphleteer and that isn't any kind of black mark against him
       anyway.
       No I don't want to discuss Ruppert. A scientist would stay on
       track and not throw out knowing the approx age and username of
       an admin at peak oil.com as an appeal to authority and saying
       lack of cornucopian beliefs made him suicide. I take it after
       guessing in an instant that you meant Ruppert if he was a
       moderator of that site, you now abandon both that Ruppert was a
       moderator at peakoil.com and the suggestion that he killed
       himself because he believed the world would end.
       If you forgot your conversation with LD re Ruppert after he had
       killed himself and that you were asked what Ruppert was wrong
       about. According to wiki it is in his critically acclaimed book;
       his 2004 book Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American
       Empire at the End of the Age of Oil.[2] that he predicted the
       financial crisis before it happened. LD would have had or read
       this book. A scientist should simply get straight to the point
       of exactly what Ruppert was wrong about. "Always predicting
       doom" is meaningless.
       As for 'ask RE', he said 'it must have been a stealth visit' (to
       SC). I wonder if this is the nature of all the attendances and
       invitations to those you seek to discredit without engaging the
       substance of what they say.
       Fair enough if you meant a website RE simply joined rather than
       owned, as per the general meaning. Apparently there isn't
       anything I forgot after all, such as a David Hughes or exchange
       you had with him.
       It's possible you once provided some actual reason for
       something, long ago. On DD you said you 'even provided
       footnotes'. Sorry but I leave this as an open question as to
       having happened, I can not be certain it did, as you are never
       anything but as vague as possible. Wild horses couldn't drag
       details out of you. Of course if there was some irrefutable
       evidence you produce, using your own established ground rules,
       savinar etc can just divert to your penchant for armed seiges
       and hiding out in storage units that make rupperts escapades
       look tame.
       There is nothing to research any side of, except whether he was
       a pamphleteer, an admin of peakoil.com and suicided because of
       believing the world was ending. Alhough it's not documented
       anywhere I can see, you get the benefit of the doubt on
       pamphleteering as you have access to his surveillance.
       We covered Earth Day and Carter for the 70s. As I've pointed
       out, he was talking about still burning oil in the 21st century,
       he never said oil was going to run out in a few years.  You also
       can't rule out great environmental catastrophe without the
       environmental protection that followed from Earth Day. My mother
       was the proof reader/editor of this book. The  1970s first
       edition cover pictured a forlorn penguin covered in crude oil.
       Around the same time, Australia stepped up it's international
       prominence in opposition to whaling, after her Greenpeace
       involvement and letter to the PM was read out in parliament.
  HTML https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Man_made_Disasters.html?id=7Hq6AAAAIAAJ
       #Post#: 1944--------------------------------------------------
       UK Grim Prospects Over Surging Energy Bills Just Got Worse
       By: RE Date: December 4, 2021, 3:24 am
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       Obviously Da Goobermint has to raise the price cap, increase
       subsidies, nationalize energy, let people freeze or some
       combination thereof.  Sadly, none of these solutions gets any
       more gas shipped to the UK.
  HTML https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/UK-Grim-Prospects-Over-Surging-Energy-Bills-Just-Got-Worse.html
       UK Grim Prospects Over Surging Energy Bills Just Got Worse
       RE
       #Post#: 1947--------------------------------------------------
       Re: What Happens If Europe Runs Out Of Gas
       By: Phil Potts Date: December 4, 2021, 3:05 pm
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       [quote author=BuddyJ link=topic=49.msg1946#msg1946
       date=1638646259]
       [quote author=Phil Potts link=topic=49.msg1939#msg1939
       date=1638582926]
       You played Rumpelstiltskin on who a peakoil.com moderator was,
       their age and username who suicided. You said it was due to
       believing in perma doom. Now the only person you mention
       suicuding is Ruppert.
       [/quote]
       I didn't say "only" anything. I've named two I am familiar with.
       Do you believe that they might be the only two? Seems unlikely
       to me.
       [quote author=Phil Potts]
       Your job is to discredit Ruppert and any other threats to the
       govt narrative such as even on this miniscule and
       inconsequential forum. Clearly he was far more than a
       pamphleteer and that isn't any kind of black mark against him
       anyway. [/quote]
       At peakoil.com, during the weekly chats that were available to
       those interested, using audio through computers, the vote went
       for me being CIA. They couldn't quite decide on WHY the CIA had
       an interest in a minor group of geologically ignorant forum
       residents, but that was the call.
       [quote author=Phil Potts] I take it after guessing in an instant
       that you meant Ruppert if he was a moderator of that site, you
       now abandon both that Ruppert was a moderator at peakoil.com and
       the suggestion that he killed himself because he believed the
       world would end.
       [/quote]
       Ruppert was never a moderator at peakoil.com. And as to the
       exact why he suicided himself...well....he didn't write that in
       the note he left.
       [quote author="Phil Potts]
       A scientist should simply get straight to the point of exactly
       what Ruppert was wrong about. "Always predicting doom" is
       meaningless.
       [/quote]
       Scientists do what scientists do, and there is no more
       requirement they "should simply get straight to the point" any
       more than it is required I have a PhD. "Always predicting doom"
       isn't meaningless. Specifically, I mentioned before that folks
       like Simmons and Deffeyyes would throw in little caveats,
       Simmons on the final page or two of his most famous book, as
       preemptive defense against being considered only doomers. In
       everything I've read from Ruppert or FTW, that wasn't the case.
       So, if I wish to characterize Ruppert as "always predicting
       doom", I'll stand by it until you correct me by finding him
       astride a rainbow colored unicorn blowing a conch shell to
       summon all like minded fantasyland characters to his side.
       [quote author=Phil Potts]
       It's possible you once provided some actual reason for
       something, long ago. On DD you said you 'even provided
       footnotes'. Sorry but I leave this as an open question as to
       having happened, I can not be certain it did, as you are never
       anything but as vague as possible.
       [/quote]
       Well, what with my identify having been discovered by folks
       watching my every movement, tracing my travels between cities
       via IP numbers, scanning conferences and matching attendance
       lists to find out who I was, can you blame me?  ;)
       [/quote]
       "It was Ruppert who suicided" is what you last said. Initially
       you said you knew who was a moderator at peakoil.com who
       suicided and what their age and username was, that was your
       question.
       It doesn't matter which of the myriad 3 letter agencies pays
       from the State Dept pot.
       You didnt say anything in this discussion about Simmons and
       Dufeyyes.  In any case, you need to plainly state what exactly
       they or Ruppert have said that you believe is wrong and why.
       What you are doing here is polar opposite to the Scientific
       Method. I'm not an academic, but I've done a postgraduate
       research thesis and been involved in a couple of studies before
       that, then read god only knows how many journal articles and
       books about the brain since. Im ready to make the call that
       scientists set out to prove or disprove hypotheses and give the
       reasons for any possibilities that are not definitely known.
       #Post#: 1956--------------------------------------------------
       Re: What Happens If Europe Runs Out Of Gas
       By: Phil Potts Date: December 5, 2021, 2:03 am
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       [quote author=BuddyJ link=topic=49.msg1948#msg1948
       date=1638667657]
       Are you familiar with how a sample size must be sufficient to
       calculate a given level of confidence in a conclusion? If so,
       then you also understand how a sample size of 1 is wholly
       insufficient to draw a conclusion. No research experience
       necessary really, just a familiarity with some basic statistics.
       [/quote]
       Alexa, what's a confidence interval? Manova isn't just something
       sailors shout out. It's statistics software to turn 💩
       into chocolate, but thats getting into questions of research
       funding paying for the effect they want.
       #Post#: 1959--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Energy Errata
       By: Cam Date: December 5, 2021, 9:39 am
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  HTML https://interestingengineering.com/new-co2-battery-can-halve-the-cost-of-solar-energy-storage
       Here is an interesting way to store solar energy. You need a lot
       of CO2, but this looks pretty neat to me.
       #Post#: 1960--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Energy Errata
       By: Nearings fault Date: December 5, 2021, 10:08 am
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       [quote author=Cam link=topic=49.msg1959#msg1959 date=1638718752]
  HTML https://interestingengineering.com/new-co2-battery-can-halve-the-cost-of-solar-energy-storage
       Here is an interesting way to store solar energy. You need a lot
       of CO2, but this looks pretty neat to me.
       [/quote] you are going to see dozens of solutions over the next
       decade. I  think all of them will be tried. It is similar to the
       dot com wild west era. Lots of funding available to try to
       create the tech to make the lofty climate change promises work.
       I believe the technical barriers and complexity of the CO2
       storage listed will prove too big. Pumped water storage uses a
       much more dense medium and compressed air in mines uses less
       land. Both are comparable and less complex. Time will tell. It
       will be an "exciting" decade.
       Cheers
       #Post#: 1961--------------------------------------------------
       Re: What Happens If Europe Runs Out Of Gas
       By: Phil Potts Date: December 5, 2021, 1:59 pm
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       [quote author=BuddyJ link=topic=49.msg1958#msg1958
       date=1638716821]
       [quote author=Phil Potts link=topic=49.msg1956#msg1956
       date=1638691414]
       [quote author=BuddyJ link=topic=49.msg1948#msg1948
       date=1638667657]
       Are you familiar with how a sample size must be sufficient to
       calculate a given level of confidence in a conclusion? If so,
       then you also understand how a sample size of 1 is wholly
       insufficient to draw a conclusion. No research experience
       necessary really, just a familiarity with some basic statistics.
       [/quote]
       Alexa, what's a confidence interval? Manova isn't just something
       sailors shout out. It's statistics software to turn 💩
       into chocolate, but thats getting into questions of research
       funding paying for the effect they want.
       [/quote]
       An entertaining answer to some question or another, but not the
       one I asked.  If you are unfamiliar with how sample size and
       calculated confidence levels work, you could just say so.
       [/quote]
       I gave you the why and one of many ways around that, rather than
       the obvious yes. What was the relevance of the question though,
       as you didn't say what N =1 is.  It isn't the number of times
       you say peak oilers are wrong without any reason except you're a
       scientist. It isn't the number of scientific journals articles
       setting the study out in full I've read,. Its only the number of
       times some1 talked about being paid for posting.
       This conversation is pointless and spamming over useful and
       interesting posts. Out.
       #Post#: 1963--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Energy Errata
       By: K-Dog Date: December 5, 2021, 8:18 pm
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  HTML https://interestingengineering.com/new-co2-battery-can-halve-the-cost-of-solar-energy-storage
       I don't know thermodynamic well but the efficiency of compressed
       gas power storage is described by the Carnot cycle.  This
       article is propaganda for a lame carbon capture scheme and I
       believe the process can't come close to battery storage in
       efficiency.
       Proof:
       that draws CO2 from the dome and compresses it, generating heat
       that is sent to a thermal energy storage device.
       This heat is lost, The idea that it is being stored is
       ridiculous.  The best situation would be if the CO2 remains hot
       and is stored in insulated pressure vessels.  If this article
       were based on real science and not wishful thinking the
       efficiency of the process would be described.  It is not.
       I can't believe the efficiency is good enough to be useful.
  HTML https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/Images/carnot.gif
       Any heat going to 'thermal storage' increases W, the work.
       Directly reducing efficiency.
       A heat exchanger could improve efficiency but the salient point
       is improve.  Shit still stinks.
       #Post#: 1964--------------------------------------------------
       Re: What Happens If Europe Runs Out Of Gas
       By: K-Dog Date: December 5, 2021, 8:28 pm
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       [quote author=BuddyJ link=topic=49.msg1962#msg1962
       date=1638753656]
       [quote author=Phil Potts link=topic=49.msg1961#msg1961
       date=1638734369]
       It isn't the number of times you say peak oilers are wrong
       without any reason except you're a scientist. It isn't the
       number of scientific journals articles setting the study out in
       full I've read,. Its only the number of times some1 talked about
       being paid for posting.
       [/quote]
       Well...I guess....it is good we've established that no one here
       gets paid for posting then.
       [/quote]
       But if this forum were to take off in such a dramatic fashion
       that it somehow it made money then you as a contributing member
       would get a monthly check.  Why?
       Because both RE and I are commies.
       We probably could get more members, but this place is word of
       mouth and only linked to my own website which is word of mouth.
       If we had 100K members producing 3000 posts a day spread over a
       dozen active members being an admin could be a full time job.
       Wages to admin.  A real wage with taxes Social Security and all
       that stuff.  We are talking serious time.  Things would be set
       up legal and the place would be member owned.
       Dues at fifty cents a month gives $4166.67
       Two admins at $1000 a month leaves $2166.67
       Distributed by an algorithm that scores post quality and number.
       To each member according to their contribution.  Admin wage
       determined by a vote of all members.  Admin elections after
       Lenin and Trotsky are gone.
       Excuse my mental ****asterbation.  At a million members an admin
       job could have benefits and would pay a living wage.  After that
       membership would not elect for more admin pay.
       ****asterbation - Can you believe the forum software censored
       that ???  I had to come back and fix it so you know what I
       meant.  At 100K members we would be running on our own virtual
       server and censorship would not be an issue.
       #Post#: 1966--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Energy Errata
       By: RE Date: December 5, 2021, 8:57 pm
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       [quote author=K-Dog link=topic=49.msg1963#msg1963
       date=1638757096]
       This heat is lost, The idea that it is being stored is
       ridiculous.  The best situation would be if the CO2 remains hot
       and is stored in insulated pressure vessels.  If this article
       were based on real science and not wishful thinking the
       efficiency of the process would be described.  It is not.
       [/quote]
       To pressurize it, you would need to run pumps which would use
       more energy then what you get out.  Compressing the gas would
       heat it still further though.
       CO2 is the end result of Oxidation of carbon.  The only way to
       store energy with carbon is to Reduce it.  That is what plants
       do with Photosynthesis. They get the energy to do it directly
       form the Sun. Free Oxygen is the result of reducing CO2.
       Animals go in the opposite direction.  They take the Free Oxygen
       and use it to Oxidize what the plant life builds.  Thus you had
       to have plant life first to support animal life.
       All the rest of this nonsense is just trying to make a perpetual
       motion machine.  You have to have a source of energy coming in
       continuously, which generally comes from the Sun, though
       Geothermal energy does support some life.  The energy is always
       dissipating though as waste heat, thus the Universe is
       constantly cooling toward Absolute Zero.
       The only way it starts heating up again is if there is enough
       Dark Matter out there for Gravity to start pulling it back
       together and compress it all, into another Big Bang.  This is
       still a matter of conjecture, but it's a long ways off in any
       event.  Our Sun will burn out long before that happens.
       To restore the Life balance on this planet, we need less Animal
       Life and more Plant life.  That is why so many animals are going
       extinct.  Too much biomass in the animal kingdom, not enough in
       the plant kingdom.  It's a Predator-Prey cycle.  Two sinusoidal
       curves, one trailing the other.
       [img]
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       Homo Saps are in the animal kingdom and one of the plant
       predators.
       RE
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