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6 hours ago ago from Life Info Zone.com
The alternative energy consultants tell us that the transition from the petroleum-driven economy and society will not be a smooth one, on the whole. The amount of new technologies and infrastructures that need to be developed and built is staggering—even as Germany achieves powering 10% of the entire nation through the use of alternative energy resources like wind turbines and solar arrays, even as corporation after corporation is ...
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14 hours ago ago from Commodities Options | Commodities Futures | Commodities Prices
This is a post related to a talk I am giving this week. (A PDF can be found here ). There is a huge amount of oil which theoretically can be extracted, but the question is whether the cost will be cheap enough for us to be able to afford to extract it. If the oil is too expensive to extract, the shortage of oil seems to cause a recession, similar to what we are having now. I discuss this in purely monetary terms, but it is also an issue ...
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