Where the next Crash will come..............

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

I was just now searching for info on the US nuclear ship Savannah as my brain is rusty. I built a polystyrene model of her a thousand years ago. The metasearch engine came up with the following:

"The BEST neclear ship savannah PORN on the internet!"

Nords, did I miss something in my lab on redaionucleotides decay sequences?

 

[Nords]

"The BEST neclear ship savannah PORN on the internet!"
Nords, did I miss something in my lab on redaionucleotides decay sequences?

You never looked behind all those plastic labels that are screwed onto the panels, did you? To say nothing of the back of the cover over the scram breakers...

 

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

Nope.

The worst I saw was the janitor swigging whiskey behind the racks when the colonel brought a tour of important people through the TV center.

'Shore duty' (the Army equivalent thereof) was pretty dull. Most of the time. [Reminiscences edited mentally here.]

 

[brewer12345]

If some natural gas could be diverted from space heating and electrical generation, a high quality very clean diesel can easily be made from NG.

Ha

There are also coal-to-liquids plants being set up as we speak that could pretty easily churn out diesel fuel.

Of course, since there isn't enough coal to go around at the moment (like NG), we might as well be talking about the table that has wings which we could fly to the moon.

 

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

Brewer,

I am aware of a big coal-to-liquids plant going up in China. One of many, if it works well enough.

All it takes is money. As an engineer, I encourage people with too much money to spend it (with me) to design wonderful plants.

As an investor, it is worthwhile to remember that we are talking about making commodity products for which there are substitutes. We are not talking about something new in the world that people can't live without. Would I spend my money on such a project? Not on your life.

Also, that higher prices reduce demand in the short term and in the long term. There was a ten-year period starting in the '70's when oil consumption was flat. It could happen again.

 

[Marshac]

I am aware of a big coal-to-liquids plant going up in China.  One of many, if it works well enough. 

Coal-to-liquid synthetic fuels work fine. Ask the Nazis. Goodwin's law was not just invoked...

 

[brewer12345]

Coal-to-liquid synthetic fuels work fine. Ask the Nazis. Goodwin's law was not just invoked...

South Africa did a lot of this during the apartheid embargo as well.

 

[kcowan]

I am reminded of the Propane Bottle exchange system that enables a swap at many retail stores rather than going to a filling station. Imagine the possibilities?

How about swapping battery packs at convenience stores on long trips in your electric car? Swap a discharged one for a fully-charged one. Or maybe a LNG bottle?

When we are forced to change, it is amazing how inventive we can get.

 

[Danny]

I am reminded of the Propane Bottle exchange system that enables a swap at many retail stores rather than going to a filling station. Imagine the possibilities?

How about swapping battery packs at convenience stores on long trips in your electric car? Swap a discharged one for a fully-charged one. Or maybe a LNG bottle?

When we are forced to change, it is amazing how inventive we can get.

Hey thats a good idea!