Buisnessweek: Peak oil to Dark Age

[Sandman]

They appear to be serious about it as a commerical venture, even if it is 'misleading'.

[Kuciwalker]

The point is that it's going to take a lot more energy to cool 1 mile of superconducting wire to -135 degrees C than is lost to resistance along 1 mile of copper wire. To repeat, their plan was not to use superconductors as the grid backbone.

There are no economy of scale arguments for using superconductors for the backbone, because the same economies apply to copper wire.

[RGBVideo]

rant post

Originally posted by Businessweek
omg peak oil peak oil

Welcome to the year 2005, editors of Businessweek. No, the price of oil won't double during the next 5 years. No, it won't run out within 20 years. If you were as "in" with the trends as The Economist, Businessweek, you would've already seen the counter-phrase for "peak oil", which is now "oil sands".

Originally posted by One_more_turn
Nanosolar

"Nano", that's a funny prefix. It seems to be the new "bio". If you want something to be hip, cool, and latest hi-tech stuff, just add "nano" before the thing you're talking about.

Back when I was browsing encyclopedias during the slow days of my life in the early 90s, the only thing "nano" meant was a prefix in the SI-system. If someone had said "nano" to me, it would've just meant that it's very small and that's it. Now "nano" means something very small which can do incredible, impossible things with the power of the word "nano" alone.

I hate it how stupid people are manipulated by these trendy but empty pre-, suffixes and phrases, it's a pet peeve of mine.

edit: I'm not angry at you, OMT, but at the guys who created Nanosolar corp.

[DanS]

Don't be such a tool. There's lots of successful bio-, micro-, .com, etc. companies.

[Drake Tungsten]

Don't be such a tool.

He can't help it.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
The point is that it's going to take a lot more energy to cool 1 mile of superconducting wire to -135 degrees C than is lost to resistance along 1 mile of copper wire. To repeat, their plan was not to use superconductors as the grid backbone.

There are no economy of scale arguments for using superconductors for the backbone, because the same economies apply to copper wire.

http://www.amsuper.com/products/htsWire/HTSCables.cfm

[Lonestar]

Re: rant post

Originally posted by VJ

Welcome to the year 2005, editors of Businessweek. No, the price of oil won't double during the next 5 years. No, it won't run out within 20 years. If you were as "in" with the trends as The Economist, Businessweek, you would've already seen the counter-phrase for "peak oil", which is now "oil sands".

You don't really understand terms like "inelastic y" and "knock on effects", do you?

And yeah, it has the high potential of doubling if for no other reason that we have managed to well and truly screw the pooch in Middleastern politics.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Perfection
Electricity generation is relatively easy. We'll be able to keep pace with demand far into the future. The big issue is portable energy for vehicular use. The solution? Big tax subsidies to those who buy electric vehicles with lessor subsidies for hybrids and plug in hybrids.

wtf? We aren't keeping up with demand right now. That ought to tell you what peak oil is going to look like. Supply of oil will not increase at all, and might decrease for a good amt of time. Right now its still increasing.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Impaler[WrG]
Nuclear power is the most expensive form of power EVER invented, its real cost is more then twice that of Wind power

Bulllllsshhhhhiitttttt

[One_more_turn]

"edit: I'm not angry at you, OMT, but at the guys who created Nanosolar corp."

You don't have a freaking clue here, I'm afraid.

[RGBVideo]

Originally posted by One_more_turn
"edit: I'm not angry at you, OMT, but at the guys who created Nanosolar corp."

You don't have a freaking clue here, I'm afraid.

It's a bull**** buzzword. That was a rant against bull**** buzzwords. Corporations which are named after only bull**** buzzwords don't tend to turn into anything. The few corporations which do take advantage of new technology don't form their names from bull**** buzzwords because they're focusing on actual production instead of fooling their shareholders.

Look, talk is cheap. How about you invest your life savings on that and come back in five years.

Oh, and ignore the kucidrakedanny-stalkers, they attack me in every single discussion they see me taking part of because I've dared to stand up for the facts in different context entirely, years ago. I don't know what tricks they're using now, but sad to see it works so well.

[Colonâ„¢]

You really don't have a clue. I don't know about Business Week, but The Economist has never been a proponent of peak oil, never mind that they've argued oil sands are the solution to it.