Hallucigenia

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Hallucigenia replied to the Oil & Gas - Markets & Trends board. 22:22

Re: More oil from Caspain Sea

Briefly a giant oil field will start production in the Caspian Sea.

I assume you're talking about Kashagan which is (finally!!!!) coming onstream in the next few weeks. But as regular readers of Novosti-Kazakhstan will know, the Oil [more]

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Hallucigenia posted to the Wine Lovers board. 18:16

The problems with AOC

Catching up on a few things, this is a great article from Decanter a few months ago which I couldn't find on their website but is available here :

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Hallucigenia replied to the Weight Control board. 12:41

Re: Eating my greens

Any references?

'Food is Your Best Medicine' by Bieler, Henry G

I'm guessing Diziet was after hard evidence, as in proper peer-reviewed experiment, rather than the say-so of a California fringe-theorist who thought [more]

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Hallucigenia replied to the Weight Control board. 18:03

Re: Type 2 diabetes discovery.

Funnily enough I was talking to a guy who works on these kinds of fat-cell hormones only the other day. You can understand why there's so much interest in them - leptin now looks rather passé.

Whilst I have some sympathy with orchard's [more]

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Hallucigenia posted to the Oil & Gas - Markets & Trends board. 11:35

Jolly Rogered

This URL says it all :

http://www.stripes.com/no-hijacking-by-somali-pirates-in-nea...

Somali pirates hijacked 46 ships in 2009, 47 in [more]

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Hallucigenia replied to the Oil & Gas - Markets & Trends board. 12:28

Re: More oil in Canada

Note that they are vague about the costs of the Kearl mine. It depends a lot on what's happening to the Western Canada Select/WTI differential which is relatively small at the moment but looks set to widen as production overtakes the capacity of the [more]

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Hallucigenia posted to the Oil & Gas - Markets & Trends board. 00:13

Brent vs WTI

I see a little landmark on http://www.bloomberg.com/energy/ - the differential between the current contracts (June) for Brent and WTI is now down to exactly $10.00 - I think that's the lowest it's been [more]

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Hallucigenia replied to the Oil & Gas - Markets & Trends board. 18:05

Re: Iran oil not so fungible?

The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that Iranian oil exports rose to 1.3 million barrels a day (bpd) in October from around 1.0 million bpd in August and September, but sales are still far below the 2.2 million bpd it exported in [more]

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Hallucigenia posted to the Oil & Gas - Markets & Trends board. 17:33

"Some people can make money in a $4 gas world"

http://energy.aol.com/2013/04/19/stronger-natural-gas-still-...

"Some people can make money in a $4.00 gas world, and some people are doing [more]

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Hallucigenia posted to the Oil & Gas - Markets & Trends board. 23:27

Civilisation needs EROEI>6,so forget biofuel?

This is a fun paper which I don't fully agree with but makes some good points. It's from a US Navy guy who is mainly arguing against biofuels as any kind of solution to energy security for the US, but there's some interesting points along the way. In [more]

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Hallucigenia posted to the Renewable Energy & Fuel Cells board. 23:22

Civilisation needs EROEI>6, so forget biofuels?

This is worth a read, although there's lots to quibble with. Ike Kiefer is a US Navy pilot with a physics degree and an agenda, which he's bringing to a subject that involves a lot of biology. The combination of physicists and biology has an unhappy [more]

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Hallucigenia replied to the Economic Markets & Trends board. 11:53

Re: What is Balls smoking?

The problem is that in a democracy, you are given a choice of dumb, dumber, and raving lunatic.

I wouldn't be too hard on the politicians, the real problem is...us :

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of [more]

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Hallucigenia posted to the Oil & Gas - Markets & Trends board. 17:46

Budget - shale & decommissioning

http://cdn.hm-treasury.gov.uk/budget2013_complete.pdf

2.129 Shale gas – The Government will introduce a new field allowance for shale gas and extend the Ring Fence [more]

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Hallucigenia replied to the London Lovers board. 01:08

Re: Everyman Cinema

in Hampstead, it's £14 for the film and then quite a bit for drinks, even softs.

I went once with a friend without realising it was that much!


OTOH, £14 is pretty common as the headline ticket price for major [more]

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Hallucigenia posted to the Oil & Gas - Markets & Trends board. 00:41

The $1tn cost of corrosion in O&G

I thought this was fun, reading some of the background to this company, who have just built a $6.3m prototype factory to bond protective metal coatings onto pipes in a process that's claimed to be 40x faster and 20% cheaper than the current the [more]

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Hallucigenia replied to the Oil & Gas - Markets & Trends board. 00:24

Re: Want to make $1.39/bbl profit?

We've already seen BP/CNPC agree to produce over 1100kbpd from Rumaila for free, and accept a $2/bbl service fee for any incremental production in return for throwing $15bn into Iraq. Then Exxon/Shell took $1.90/bbl for West [more]

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Hallucigenia posted to the Oil & Gas - Markets & Trends board. 00:24

View from China

This is an interesting summary of two senior bods from China’s Energy Research Institute giving their take on the challenges ahead. It also has the full 80-minute video at the bottom should you feel so inclined.

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Hallucigenia replied to the Wine Lovers board. 13:34

Re: Worth a punt?

I think you're right about Sangiovese, I don't recall any 100% varietals but the local wine bar sometimes has boutique blends which are interesting.

That's the point about Brunello - the DOCG requires 100% of a particular clone (or [more]

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Hallucigenia replied to the Wine Lovers board. 20:29

Re: Worth a punt?

Anybody got any insight into the codes on neck labels?

You mean things like L-XX09-130711? L stands for "Lot" (well, the Italian equivalent), XX is a code for the particular wine, 09 is the vintage year, 130711 is the date [more]

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Hallucigenia replied to the Wine Lovers board. 19:55

Re: toro roco at Aldis

What's the verdict on Egri Bikaver?

It's like a lot of the traditional big-name wines, there's a lot of wine sold with the name on the label that comes nowhere close to the reputation (and at one stage it was getting close to [more]