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The Role of New Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Economy In this lively and intense discussion, Belcher looks to the oceans, and Nocera to the sun for answers to an impending global energy shortage. SPEAKERS: Angela Belcher Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Biological Engineering Daniel Nocera W. M. Keck Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry @: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/414/ At 20:38, Durant reads audience questions. At 23:44, Angela Belcher responds to the question of whether it is safe ecologically to start engineering microbes along the lines she described. At 31:20, Belcher discusses the kind of contribution her technology could make over time. At 32:46, Nocera discusses whether bio engineering can capture and reutilize carbon. At 36:02. Belcher and Nocera discuss harvesting ocean organisms to understand their energy machinery. At 39:04, the speakers answer the question, “Is this pie in the sky, or really coming?” At 45:48, the speakers discuss the issue of distribution costs of new technologies and their impacts at large scale. At 52:50, Nocera describes the earth’s energy needs, and the speakers discuss the energy costs of new technologies. At 1:08:01, the speakers discuss funding issues in new energy research, including the competing priorities of government and corporations and the contribution of the military.

"Lots of talk hear about selling half when they double (as if that's a given). Not much talk about the duds. So why take the risk? " = = = = = = = = Believe it or not, in the current Bull Market, i have had very few dubs- probably less than 1-in-10. Call me lucky, but that's how it has been these past 2-3 years. My biggest dud in 2005 was New Sleeper (NWS.v), which has been renamed Reunion Gold. Here is the chart for Reunion (v.RGD): ... update I bought at $1.00 in a placement in 200x, and saw it sink to a very sad sub-20 cents in mid-2005. How'd I play it? I took a loss at near 30 cents (for which i got a tax loss), stayed out of stock for over a month, checked the story carefully, and bought again under 25 cents. It subsequently rose to over $1.00, and i sold most of my position around $1.00. It has subsequently risen to over $2.00, and i still have the original warrants which carry a $2.00 strike, and an expiry in 2010. Why did i reinvest after taking my big loss? I trusted management, and thought the original loss was due to a dud project, and that proved correct. Management turned the company around by offloading the first project, and getting a new one. Hence the name change. I wish they were all like that. But New Sleeper was once my biggest loss, so it was great to make a recovery, after taking the tax loss. Two or three of my smaller investments have gone totally bust. Most notable was UK-quoted Navan Mining. I invested without meeting management, and learned a big lesson from that. Worst investment in 2006 was probably Columbia Metals (v.COL) for which I am still hopeful. = = I am long Roca Mines (v.ROK) from the 20 cent placement, but have only about 15% of my original position, having taken my initial capital back several times. i like getting in before the quality institutional investors, like Sprout.

they are losing advertisers to the web... that isnt surprising. and they may be losing circulation too. Someone has to figure out that a magazine needs to have a well-integrated chatboard, in order to be fully effective this way: + they will know better what their readers think, and that will help drive future topics in the magazine, + they can capture advertising revenue in both places

House repeals 'Big Oil' tax breaks It also boosts royalty payments for drilling to $14 billion over 10 years, capping the Democrat's '100 hour agenda.' January 18 2007: 6:49 PM EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The new Democratic-led House Thursday passed legislation aimed at "Big Oil" that would roll back some industry tax breaks and force energy companies to pay more drilling royalties, valued at $14 billion over 10 years. Passage of the bill by a vote of 264-163 capped House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 100-hour agenda, which also included measures to raise the minimum wage, lower student loan interest rates and bolster homeland security. Special Reportfull coverage House repeals 'Big Oil' tax breaks Oil tumbles toward $50 Russia plays hardball, and markets take note Exxon seen warming to emission controls The $14 billion raised from the additional royalties and repealed tax breaks would fund research for renewable energy sources. The measure still must be approved by the Senate and the president before it becomes law. Going after major integrated U.S. oil firms like Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and ConocoPhillips has been a top priority for the House Democratic leadership, which says they have earned record profits at the expense of U.S. motorists paying high gasoline prices. Oil dips below $50 "The oil and gas industry is extraordinarily well established and well off," said House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer. "It does not need the American taxpayer's help to be successful or to make a dollar." About half of the bill's savings comes from eliminating a lower tax rate on oil companies, which will bring in about $6.5 billion from 2007 to 2016, according to a congressional estimate. The lower tax rate had been given to all U.S. manufacturers in 2004, including oil companies. @: http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/18/news/compa...oney_topstories

fair point. this simply shows there are two markets: short term, and long term, and they do not always move together. where is the long contract now? i would be more comfortable buying here, since the spot months appears to have gone through a climatic selloff now. i bought my bp calls, and they are up about 60%

Good discussion about trading Juniors in this interview with David Morgan : http://www.kereport.com/audio/0113-04.mp3 Be careful, they are "burning matches", and many will go to zero, he says.

Zapata George, being interviewed on FS, talks about... "The Talking heads on CNBC have just rung the bell" They are so bearish on oil, that it must be a bottom. He says the volume spikes on oil and oil derivatives show an Apex has been reached- "we have seen the bottom" in Oil. "The next significant number in oil is $80." (would make those BP calls look rather good.)

in a demographly-challenged world, a country being open and appealing to outsiders, especially young immigrants, will be an advantage

THE CURSE is Democraticised... You da man! December 17, 2006 Time magazine's issue of May 6, 1946, featured famed horse-breeder and makeup-magnate Elizabeth Arden Graham on its cover. The day the magazine hit the newsstands, Graham's stable burned to the ground, killing 22 thoroughbreds. The tragedy confirmed what the public had suspected since the early 1930s: To have your picture on the front page of the popular newsweekly was to be cursed. Whom the gods would destroy they first put on Time's cover. In a cruel trick, Time this week saddles all of us with its notorious "cover jinx." The magazine has announced its Man of the Year for 2006, and He is You. To illustrate its choice, Time puts on its cover a picture of a computer screen with a mirrored mylar finish. Look at it and you see yourself. To what do we owe this dicey honor? To Web 2.0, of course. Thanks to the Internet, writes Time's top editor, Rick Stengel, "the creators and consumers of user-generated content are transforming art and politics and commerce." They are "the engaged citizens of a new digital democracy." The mirror on the cover "literally reflects the idea that you, not we, are transforming the information age." Web 2.0 is battering the Great Man theory of history, writes Lev Grossman in the cover story. Yes, Great Men continue to be responsible for "the many painful and disturbing things that happened in 2006" - from war to global warming to the PlayStation 3 shortage - but "look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before ... It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes." . . . But it's the cover, really, that contains the subtlest thinking in the issue. Web 2.0, writes Grossman, provides "a chance for people to look at a computer screen and really, genuinely wonder who's out there looking back at them." The cover gives Grossman's words a wry twist, offering a much darker view of the radical personalization of culture. Peer into the cover's computer screen and all you see looking back at you is you. In a solipsistic world, every Lonely Girl is a Great Man. The curse of Time is democratized. @: http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/you_da_man.php

REUTERS said this, recently: "Time's "Person of the Year" is You ... By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - You were named Time magazine "Person of the Year" on Saturday for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet content such as blogs, video-file sharing site YouTube and social network MySpace. "For seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, Time's Person of the Year for 2006 is you," the magazine's Lev Grossman wrote. . . . Grossman said the creators and consumers of user-generated Internet sites showed a community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. "It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes," said Grossman, Time's technology writer and book critic. . . . Time's 2005 Person of the Year was the richest man in the world, Bill Gates, his wife Melinda, and Irish rocker Bono for being Good Samaritans, while the 2004 choice was U.S. President George W. Bush. In 2003 "The American Soldier" graced the cover in a year when U.S. troops invaded Iraq." ...more: http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1873922006

THE CURSE OF TIME MAGAZINE, they call it. At the end of 2006, Time magazine's cover said: . . . . "The Person of the Year is... YOU !" . . . . A lack of recognition by TIME may in fact be a blessing, since being Time's Man of the Year, often comes with a curse Look back to 1982, for something similar But what happened to Computer and computer games shares? - Apple (20 years later, AAPL stock was no better than first half 1983 levels. Only the recent "I-pod run, has saved it from possible obscurity.) - IBM ... update : 5-year.mo : 3-year.wk : 1-year (IBM rose in 1988, and then fell, giving up all the gains from that euphoria, and then re-invented itself as a consulting company) - Commodore: Companies like Commodore, Atari, and Sinclair Research have been taken over, or disappeared. ("Atari's history is long, but rocky. Launched in 1972, it immediately made a name for itself with "Pong" – one of the games that kicked off the video game industry. Five years later (under new owners), it brought home video games to the mainstream with the "Atari 2600." A failed attempt to get into the home computer business hurt the company, though, reducing its relevance in the industry. @: http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/17/commentary...aming/index.htm ) - ...others...? ...and in 2003, the American Soldier was Person of the Year what happened? The Gulf War II ended, stocks bottomed, and the American soldier became the target of 2004, 2005, 2006... = = = SO WHAT is the meaning of the 2006 Cover? it could be, we are seeing the beginning of the end of the Golden Age of the American Consumer. And that is the same message being carried by weak stock markets in early 2007. Let's see if some of the Consumer and Retail oriented stock indicies peak here in late-2006/early-2007... =======

U.S. crude-product supplies up a fourth week: Energy Dept. Jan 10, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The Energy Department said distillate supplies rose for a fourth week, up 5.4 million barrels to 141 million for the week ended Jan. 5. Motor gasoline supplies rose 3.8 million barrels to 213.3 million, also up a fourth week. Crude stocks fell for a seventh week, down 5 million barrels to total 314.7 million barrels. Following the news, February crude dropped $1.39 to $54.25 a barrel. February reformulated gasoline fell 4.21 cents to $1.4275 a gallon and February heating oil traded at $1.527 a gallon, down 2.95 cents

The Japanese believe in preserving their racial and cultural purity. They do not even readily accept as Japanese, those of Korean descent, who were born in their country and speak only Japanese, and no Korean! They Chinese also tend to believe in their own innate superiorty, but they tend to be more flexible and pragmatic than the Japanese, putting their faith in familes, rather than in their own entire race. I suppose you could say that the Japanese see themselves as a single family.

(i have renamed this, "the Demographics thread") Demographics are going to be a huge issue for our Globe- too many people want to retire, and leave the labor force in the next 10-15 years. Who is going to keep the economy growing, as these people stop working. As someone who likes identifying new trends early, Don Coxe is struggling to bring this theme into his commentary: LISTEN: http://events.startcast.com/events/199/B0003/# Some of his points: + We've never had to deal with a cyclical peak and slowdown when demographics were an issue, + the current cyclical rollover may be the first where we do + Japan is already in its demographics crisis, so we can learn lessons from them + The declining number of "quality workers" may mean there is a CAP ON GROWTH, .. and it will be tougher and tougher to get to low levels of unemployment without inflation - This could mean less future growth, and less demand for commodities + Growth in emerging markets, where there has been a higher rate of population growth .. is the best hope for the world. If we see that, commodities demand will hold up + Gold is still the place to be, because of: : Central banks may push for growth, by continuing to pump money into the system : There is too much low quality corporate debt, suggesting a potential financial crisis .. if the economy slows down

i am assuming you are now in turkey, MM. why not make contact with some academic institutions there?

oil cannot easily be used as money, because it is too expensive to transport. thus, oil in one location, can have very different value than oil in another. because gold is used as a store of value (and as money) it is held as physical, and is constantly in over-supply, relative to its industrial demand. when a commodity like oil, goes into relative shortage, its spot price gets up, and it goes into backwardation

Finally, here's a trade idea for those who like to buy UK stocks: BP Plc. i am just updating my charts, and it looks like the ideal BUY price would be 535-540p, which is not far away. Some may want to start nibbling at 550p or higher I will put the update chart on the BP thread very soon. at 561p: Yield: 3.74% P/E Ratio: 10.23 link: http://www.greenenergyinvestors.com/index.php?showtopic=1028 No gtees. DYOR = = GOLD is stuck in contango, because of its monetary characteristic. You can borrow and lend gold, at low interest rates, and it si easy to transport. Hence, it will always be in contango (with only very rare and brief exceptions, if-and-when gold's short dated interest yield spikes.) if you want me to say more about this, let me know

TIME TO START SHIFTING...? Out of precious metals into energy? Maybe. See charts and comments: WTI-to-Oil Cross market intelligence

If spot oil continues to slide, the long-dated futures may get dragged down further. I would be more comfortable buying after spot stabilises. The current slide is not done yet Imho Having said this, I bought some canadian energy royalties in recent days

Bouncing back... PARTYGAMING OR. 36.75 +8.09% 12:57

Fr. have you looked into using a YouTube video to promote the Musical? Might work. See posting here: http://www.greenenergyinvestors.com/index.php?showtopic=1369 = = How do i get a copy of a DVD for "There's a girl in My Soup?" Edited excerpts from Review: "The film is set in Swinging London, with Sellers top-billed as Robert Danvers, a culinary expert/TV personality who, as one character puts it, "treats women like [his] wine tasting – [he] rolls them around in [his] mouth and spits them out." Conceited and shallow beyond all reason, Danvers brazenly approaches any woman that strikes his fancy and, for the most part, easily has his way with her. He often takes his sex partners to his swingin' bachelor pad, an electronic paradise right out of a 1970 issue of Playboy. Complete with a lime green, circular bed and mirrored ceiling, Sellers's bedroom looks like something acquired from Matt Helm. But narcissist Danvers meets his match in free spirited Marion (Hawn), a 19-year-old American who had been living with her no-good drummer boyfriend, Jimmy (Nicky "Psychomania" Henson). To Danvers's great surprise he becomes quite taken with the combative but bubbly and smart Marion, who refuses to buy any of Danvers's cheap come-ons. There's a Girl in My Soup was directed by Roy Boulting who in collaboration with twin brother John, made some of the best British comedies of the late-1950s / early-1960s, including I'm All Right Jack (1959), Carlton Browne of the F.O. (1960), and Heaven's Above! (1963), all of which featured Sellers." = = It sounds like an unacknowledged inspiration for Austin Powers

Over time... ...GreenEnergy may gradually... ....................................................................... ...become a smaller part of GEI... ....................................................................... ...and just fade away... ...to almost... ...Nothing... UNLESS we see more opportunities to profit by trading Alt-Energy stocks.

Haha. I suppose we are all becoming global these days: Global-ei, Global-hpc, Spurred on by a Global debt bubble, Global property & equity booms and Global wash of liquidity everywhere But somehow the Middle east is being left out, as markets in the gulf crashed in 2006

The way that i've done it is... Left GreenEnergy mostly as it was, with the new name, GlobalEdgeInvestors, simply directing people into the old website. I may change over at some stage, putting the website fully in the name of GlobalEdge. But before doing so, will have to investigate whether or not my current software license could be switched over. So I may just leave it as it is. Think of the new logo as, some new packaging- but with the product remaining essential the same. I hope eventually the number of posters will grow, and the new folks will feel at home here more quickly because of the new name DO ANY OF THE OLD POSTERS ... feel that they can post on a wider range of topics because of the new name?? i think if I was an infrequent poster, the new name might encourage more freedom

bought my first canadian energy trust yesterday that drop in oil of recent days, have brought some of the trusts back to retest their lows. may add more this week, if the downwards drift continues