At 10:17 AM 7/31/2008, you wrote:
>Terrible article.  The dollar has fallen 35% against the Euro in the past 6
>years.  Oil prices have gone up 400%.  In a cleared market, demand always
>equals supply; that's the function of price.  About speculation, some call
>it speculation, others call it a prudent hedge against future price
>increases.

The best explanation of oil price speculation, where there is no
intent to receive oil, is this:

There is a superbowl. Imagine betting on it. You can bet team A wins
or team B wins. No matter how many people bet on team A or team B -
it doesn't affect the outcome of the game (barring, of course,
players being bought off etc.).

Terrible article.  The dollar has fallen 35% against the Euro in the past 6
years.  Oil prices have gone up 400%.  In a cleared market, demand always
equals supply; that's the function of price.  About speculation, some call
it speculation, others call it a prudent hedge against future price
increases.

If 35% of the rise in oil's price is currency weakness, and 40% (that's the
number I usually see) is speculation, that leaves a "real" increase of over
100%.

Jeanne


Original Message:
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From: sharon kulz s_kulz@...
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:49:08 -0700 (PDT)
To: sfoilawareness@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sfoilawareness] Are Oil Prices Rising?


Article on oil price increase as a function of both speculation and dollar
demise rather than as strictly demand and supply.

<http://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-There-an-Oil-Shortage--by-Ismael-Hossei
n-zad-080728-49.html>

Sharon





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Article on oil price increase as a function of both speculation and dollar demise rather than as strictly demand and supply.

< http://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-There-an-Oil-Shortage--by-Ismael-Hossein-zad-080728-49.html >

Also, unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on one's point of 
view), a hoax.

http://www.greenlivingtips.com/blogs/185/Toshiba-nuclear-reactor-hoax.html

Also, unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on one's point of
view), a hoax.

http://www.greenlivingtips.com/blogs/185/Toshiba-nuclear-reactor-hoax.html




On Jul 24, 2008, at 9:16 PM, sharon kulz wrote:

>
> Same small size as the Pebble Bed reactor but different.
>
>
<http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-toshiba-micro-nuclear-12.1\
7b.html
> >
>
>
> Sharon
>
>

Irregardless of one's views on religion, there's no getting around the fact that they are an influential lot. Imagine what might happen if the heads of major religions held a summit and declared it a fatwa, a sin or generally a No No to ignore or otherwise contribute to the demise of the environment.

Hi All,

Got this off www.urbansurvival.com today.  What do you guys think?  Any promise
or more hype?

Energy Breakthrough of a Lifetime?

'Is it really 'ground floor'  or hype?" I ask myself.



Usually, when a company makes an announcement, I toss it immediately into the
round file.  But the recent announcement by Backlight Power brought to my
attention by an email from a reader has me wondering a bit about whether the
world is on the verge of dramatic change.



The very long-range work of the predictive linguistics team has imagery of a
much more 'electric' world ahead, but where would the power for such an
'electric world' come from?  Solar?  Not enough kilowatts and not mobile.  In
the back of my mind, the 1989 work of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann in
cold fusion keep swirling around.  Now the reader email:

quote from Monday.... "...headlines tell us that "Oil price supernova spurs
search for alternatives."

speaking of headlines, Black Light Power, Inc, a private R&D company (with
emphasis on cutting-edge atomic physics and chemistry) has been on this trail
for 15+ years, last week made an announcement of the completion of a prototype
power system that generates 50,000 watts of thermal power on demand using a new
energy source.

"BlackLight Power Inc. is the inventor of a paradigm-shifting new primary energy
source and a new field of hydrogen chemistry with broad commercial
applications." .... http://www.blacklightpower.com/

"The BlackLight process generates enormous amounts of cheap, non-polluting heat
that will replace the thermal power of coal, oil, gas, and nuclear power plants
that is then converted to energy."

more on BLP in the wake of the news release here....
http://venturebeat.com/2008/05/30/blacklight-power-claims-nearly-free-energy-fro\
m-water-is-this-for-real/

but it could be even bigger george. much bigger!!! if you dig into this
company's work you'll see what i mean. one of the guys that works with us has
been following so-called cutting-edge energy solutions for several years as a
hobby. this includes the work of Bearden, et al, which traces back to Tesla and
from there back to maxwell. anyone following and investing time and energy in
such interests has ended up having their chain pulled so many times they get
veeeeeery discriminating. in the case of BLP and its founder randall mills, he
managed to get himself accepted as a "business consultant" several months ago.
he tells me he's never before seen a "theory" proposed in this field that
strives to follow standard scientific practices of review, etc like BLP. he also
tells me mills is working on a new paper (that mills is is public info). he's
making an educated guess (if he knew for sure he couldn't tell me per NDC
agreement) that the paper may introduce and propose a 5th force....
gravity+EM+weak nuclear+strong nuclear+?????. this would, if it proves out, be a
walkin talkin paradigm shift in the GUT of classical physics. bigger even that
e=mc sq'd.

its always seemed a no-brainer to me that somewhere there is something like a
mirror force to G. so i fired off a query to him...

-----

care to speculate that F5 will turn out to be the counterpart to G?

-----

his reply....

"No speculation required. It is thoroughly detailed in Chapter 35 of Volume III
of his book. It provides a force in opposite direction to gravity and is of a
much larger magnitude. Counterpart is an interesting word... Randy has
discovered, however, that both the force of gravity and the fifth force are
related and caused based on the dimensional curvature of fundamental particles,
like the electron.

-----

Calculations and engineering for a fifth force propulsion device are provided in
Chapter 35. Initial calculations demonstrate that the fifth force can be
utilized to provide vertical propulsion orders of magnitude more effectively
than conventional rocketry as well as providing for effective horizontal
propulsion. The aviation industry can expect some major changes in the coming
decade.

Welcome to the revolution!"

not exactly anti-gravity but space may be a whole lot closer in the very near
future.

just the delusions of back-room junk science and some wackos looking to milk
venture $$$$ which is so often the case? "Blacklight, by contrast, claims $60
million in funding, including about $10 million from electric utilities Conectiv
and PacifiCorp, as well as amounts from unnamed hedge funds and members of its
all-star board of directors, including Shelby Brewer, a Reagan-era US assistant
secretary of nuclear energy, and Michael Jordan, CEO of Electronic Data
Systems." check out the pedigree on that board of directors!

the downsides if the science proves out? i can think of several. new (some say
it already exists) super-weaponry for one. for another - when civilization is
pushed to crisis it has a tendency to go to work to overcome that crisis. i
think its called the survival instinct. but it never fails that when humans get
hold of something close to a free ride we tend to ride off further into
devolution. and another? population will continue to explode and run-away
consumerism will continue as we slowly starve and thirst to death while the
planet pukes the poison we produce and have become!

but this is HUGE news george and everyone should keep a close eye on the
developments over at BLP,

BlackLight Power is owned by Millsian, Inc, and they have some real horsepower,
it seems, in computational chemical design technology...and I've downloaded the
demo version of their software to see how it plays.



The key thing for me while looking at the screenshot of their software is that
they've got total bond energy and heat of formation energy for each of hundreds
of molecules, if not thousands.



So far, this is passing my "sniff test" - it's exactly the kind of development
environment from which a world-changing technology could come from...



It occurs to me that if a company was doing world-class chemical engineering
work that they'd be able to run an 'automated Edison" kind of approach and model
out which chemical and which bonds would have maximal and minimal  heat of
formation data.  That's why this is passing my sniff test.



The Millsian web site explains the company this way:

Millsian, Inc. is dedicated to developing the molecular modeling applications of
The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics (GUT-CP), solving atomic and
molecular structures by applying the classical laws of physics (Newton's and
Maxwell's Laws) to the atomic scale.

The functional groups of all major classes of chemical bonding, including those
involved in most organic molecules, have been solved exactly in closed-form
solutions. By using these functional groups as building blocks, or independent
units, a potentially infinite number of molecules can be solved. As a result,
Millsian software can visualize the exact three-dimensional structure and
calculate physical characteristics of almost any molecule of any length and
complexity. While previous software based on traditional quantum methods
resorted to approximations and required super computers for even simple systems,
Millsian software requires no special expertise to solve complex proteins and
DNA on a personal computer.

No, this is not advise to buy or sell any security - I DON'T GIVE FINANCIAL
ADVICE.  Besides, I went shopping for them on eTrade this morning and couldn't
find a listing.  So is this the real deal?  Standing by for more
developments...but this one has my attention.



Michele in Pacifica