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    • Fri Nov 21st 08:55 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Blood from a Stone and Oil from Shale
      "Oil Shale: Potential, EROI"

      Energy Returned On Energy Invested [EROEI] may be more pertinent the EROI.

      BTUs IN required for how many BTUs out.

      Candian tar [not oil] sands projects are criticized for the amount of natural gas used.

      Here's some figures copied from www.theoildrum.com/nod....

      EROEI % net Representative Source
      100:1 99 Early oil
      50:1 98 Mid 20th century
      33:1 97 Late 20th century
      25:1 96 Turn of 21st
      20:1 95 Century oil
      15:1 93 Oil now?
      10:1 90
      9:1 89 Deep water oil?
      8:1 88
      7:1 86 Tar sands?
      6:1 83
      5:1 80 Polar oil?
      4:1 75
      3:1 67 Biodiesel
      2:1 50
      1.5:1 33 Oil shale?
      1.33:1 25 Ethanol best
      1.25:1 20
      1.1:1 9
      1:1 0
      1:.7 -43 Ethanol worst



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    • Wed Nov 19th 10:06 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Cramer's Stop Trading! It's a Horrible Market (11/18/08)
      "We are witnessing nothing less than the wholesale destruction of pretty much every single financial company in the country and it is happening with breathtaking speed. "

      Cramer's statements on PRU, HIG, ... have scared retirees who get monthly annuity checks.

      www.bloggingstocks.com.../


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    • Mon Nov 17th 20:11 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Pickens Plan Changes Its Strategy
      What is the heat rate for wind Wilson?

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    • Mon Nov 17th 20:01 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Alternative Energy Storage: Cheap Will Beat Cool
      Correction

      "At about 3412 BTUs/KWh. "

      More than 3412 BTUs/KWh.

      Second law of thermodymics.

      www.prosefights.org/nm...



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    • Mon Nov 17th 19:47 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Alternative Energy Storage: Cheap Will Beat Cool
      BTUs IN, electricity OUT.

      At about 3412 BTUs/KWh.

      Flipping the middle finger at the laws of thermodynamics may not be a good idea?

      www.prosefights.org/nm...

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    • Mon Nov 17th 09:52 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Peak Oil, Cars, and Depressions
      "For example, if Obama decides to invest heavily in electrified light rail transport systems, that might create some viable investment concepts."

      I am reading about electricity shortages in the US starting within several years.
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    • Sun Nov 16th 19:29 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      What's Oil's Future?
      "Today I put in an order for some Suncor Energy Inc (a major tarsands producer who can make profit from $40 oil) at under $24, about 1/3 of its peak price."

      Got to watch tarsands because some report maybe more BTUs go in [natural gas] than BTUs gotten out.

      I read read the above.

      Energy is an an area of interest for us, not an area of expertise or ability.

      cheers

      www.prosefights.org/nm...

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    • Sun Nov 16th 09:53 AM | Rating: 0 -1
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      The Bailout Plan: Did Bernanke Panic?
      Cramer/Goldman Sachs identified Prudential, among other insurance companies, as possibly having trouble paying annunities to retirees.

      Sandia National Laboratories uses Prudential. Read more.

      www.prosefights.org/nm...
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    • Sat Nov 15th 18:55 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      First Call of the Crisis: Peter Schiff Could Be Video of the Year
      Sandia labs and JLP retirees are concerned. As well as other PRU funded retired.

      Cramer alerted us.

      www.cnbc.com/id/158402...

      We hope to concern you TOO.

      www.prosefights.org/nm...
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    • Fri Nov 14th 13:02 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The IEA Annual Report: A Dire Picture of Energy Supply and Demand
      Yup.

      "Worldwide industrial development and demographics is what's fueling mankinds need for more and more energy"

      That's what PNM electric load forecaster Steven Brown reported.

      See website.
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    • Tue Nov 11th 15:11 PM | Rating: +1 0
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      The End of the Economy As We Know It?
      Einstein's comment

      "The problems of today will not be solved by the same thinking that produced the problems in the first place."

      may be particularly relevant in the current economic messes and attempted fixes?
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    • Sun Nov 9th 18:41 PM | Rating: +1 0
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      Fossil Fuels vs. Green Energy: What's a Better Investment?
      One pound of coal yields between 8,800 and a bit more than 12,000 BTUs.

      We attended PNM electric intregrated resource planning sessions for over one year.

      HEAT RATE as seen in foils 5, 6, and 7 at website are super-important for generation of electricity.

      We are becoming increasing concerned that wind, solar, and other green electric generation technologies may not have the BTUs IN to produce practical power.

      Second problem is where are all the BTUs in from solar and wind electrical generation being robbed from. First law of thermodynamics.

      Energy is not an area of expertise and ability, only an area of interest.

      Filing fraud loss claims with National Credit Union Adminstration will hopefully soon be an area of interest, expertise and ability.

      www.prosefights.org/nm...
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    • Sat Nov 8th 09:19 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Country Default Risk
      "If counterparties pay up, CDSs are a zero-sum game: what the seller loses, the buyer gains."

      www.economist.com/fina...

      Big "if"?

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    • Fri Nov 7th 10:44 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News
      We're trying to recover $22,036 the US government stole from our pension-protected Sandia Federal Credit Union savings account using a bogus court order in our NSA/Nojeh visibility lawsuit.

      www.google.com/search?...=

      Looks like National Credit Union Administration is going to help us.

      www.prosefights.org/nm...

      Then we will buy some more CDs, not CDS.

      www.economist.com/fina...



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    • Wed Nov 5th 18:40 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Four Reasons to Expect a Solar Boom
      I spent over a year listening to PNM employees and others comment on electric energy future.

      I learned enough to ask questions about CAPACITY FACTOR and HEAT RATE.

      Both the above caps may [should] cause solar [and wind] serious problems.

      seekingalpha.com/artic...

      Laws of thermodynamics, however, may not deter solar and wind salespersons?

      Or non-science educated investors?
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