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Asebius on August 17, 2006 - 1:50pm

What the heck is this "grin" shit? Aren't you guys supposed to be posing as serious analysts? Is this an IRC channel?

And you wonder why people don't take you seriously.

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Heading Out on August 17, 2006 - 2:21pm

Well it was just that I was admitting to playing hookey, rather than diligently working on the post that I had promised.

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Asebius on August 17, 2006 - 4:36pm

The tone of my post was way out of line. Sorry.

It's just that you used the same expression twice in an earlier article and I lost it for a second.

http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/8/16/13213/1413#more

It certainly is a very relaxed style. But if there is no intent to reach a wide main stream audience, not a problem.

For the record, I'm not to be taken seriously. (As if there was any danger of that).

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Heading Out on August 17, 2006 - 8:12pm

No worries - the grins in the earlier post were because I was confessing to having deliberately been a little obscure with my first post. But, having spoken in public in front of audiences of all sizes and for many reasons I have developed a style that works for me. And yes, in my other life, I do, on occasion, interface with a main stream audience. But I'm glad you're here. Enjoy the debate!

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Asebius on August 17, 2006 - 9:00pm

Ugh!! Blush. Very magnanimous of you. Thanks. It's been one of those days. :-)

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rg144 on August 17, 2006 - 9:58pm

It is probably the same grin I get when I think of MagLev trains that were going to 'revolutionize' transportation when super-conductor magnets made frictionless mass transit obsequitous. Hopefully there will be some solution that won't end up being more than a back issue of Popular Science. :-)

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ozonehole on August 17, 2006 - 11:38pm

Speaking of the maglev, I wonder how many people remember its predecessor, the Aerotrain...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9rotrain

I thought it was great. Much more economical. Not sure why the aerotrain was abandoned for the maglev. I guess politicians like to fund pie-in-the-sky technologies instead of something simple.

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Wolfric on August 17, 2006 - 2:37pm

Regarding your comment, we would need a little more fact based argument. What do you consider "shit"? Is it the biodiesel algae? The actual information contained in the podcast?

It may be the 2 barrels/acre/day of production statement?

You know in order to not be considered an IRC channel, comments and critics need to be well stated also. We need to be more fact based in our statements. If you go to the cellulosic ethanol thread, you will see lots of questions and idea exchanged on the possibility of biodiesel from algae.

As for taking us seriously, It will be harder for me to take you seriously if you cannot articulate something more accuratly. Credibility is obtained trough good communication and comprehension. For having good communication, real physical presence is needed. Nevertheless, the kind of interaction in a blog allow for a certain amount of good communication, albeit less optimal, more efficient for reaching a large number of people. For attaining that kind of credibility, please write clearer messages and use better language.

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Engineer-Poet on August 17, 2006 - 9:19pm

You realize, of course, that if this works it's curtains for the oil companies, Hugo Chavez and the sheiks too?

I like the idea but after seeing little movement from the proponents at UNH I want to see more in the way of data, working examples, all the little caveats which factor into all real systems, etc.

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Darwinian on August 18, 2006 - 7:16am

You realize, of course, that if this works it's curtains for the oil companies, Hugo Chavez and the sheiks too?

Nonsense, no matter how cheap you can make the manufacturing oil from alge process it will never be as cheap as just finding in in the ground and pulling it out.

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Engineer-Poet on August 18, 2006 - 7:20am

Even if that was true (if so, why were so many stripper wells shut down before prices shot up recently?), it still wouldn't prevent the producers' income from going down the crapper.

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eric blair on August 17, 2006 - 3:00pm

What the heck is this "grin" shit? Aren't you guys supposed to be posing as serious analysts?

"supposed to be posing"

supposed to be posing

And you mean exactly what with such a statement?

supposed
accepted as true but doubtful: accepted, at least by some, as correct, real, or having a quality, but on slender or uncertain evidence

posing
2 : to affect an attitude or character usually to deceive or impress

Are you doubting the acting ability of Heading Out to be a serious analyst?

What was your point?

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Wolfric on August 17, 2006 - 3:17pm

Hi Eric,

I think we both nailed him shut. If it would have been in gheto street talk, it wouldnt have been better.

I didnt read or notice other useful comment from him, but I may have just missed them, who knows?

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