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10 comments on Welcome New Readers: Introductions and Primers

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Violinist on June 9, 2008 - 5:39pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top

Thanks Prof. and welcome all new readers!

Maybe it would also be useful for new readers to have a list of the common acronyms used on TOD as well, to make some of the comments more decipherable to the uninitiated (it took me months to realise that BAU meant 'business as usual').

I know I'm a relative newbie but here's a quick list of some of my favourites:

ASPO - Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas

BAU - Business as Usual

BOE or bboe - Barrel of Oil Equivalent

BTU - British Thermal Unit

CCS - Carbon capture and storage

CERA - Cambridge Energy Research Associates

EIA - Energy Information Administration

EROEI (or EROI) - Energy Returned on Energy Invested

ICE - Internal Combustion Engine

IEA - International Energy Agency (not to be confused with EIA!)

LATOC - Life After the Oil Crash (website)

PO - Peak Oil

TEOTWAWKI - The End of the World as We Know It

TOD - The Oil Drum (or Transit Oriented Development)

TPTB - The Powers-that-be

WTSHTF - When the Faecal Matter Makes Contact with the _______ (insert sports team of your choice) Supporter

I'll get my coat...

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Super G on June 9, 2008 - 7:59pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

We also have a list of acronyms here:
http://www.theoildrum.com/special/acronyms

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islandboy on June 9, 2008 - 9:10pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Super G, I don't know if how difficult it is to solve but, one can quite easily miss the acronym guide in the FAQs. I think a link directly to the acronym guide on the home page would be a godsend to us newbies. I was thrown by a couple over the past weekend and when I asked, nobody told me about the acronym guide. It wouldn't have helped anyway since IHNSHO (in his not so humble opinion) is not in the guide, neither is WAG (wild ass guess).

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Violinist on June 10, 2008 - 10:01am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Thanks, Super G.

I had no idea there was an acronymn guide. It's as though I've just been shown the TOD equivalent of the Rosetta Stone.

Any chance the link to this could be made more obvious?

Thanks for all the great work you do here :)

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ThatsItImout on June 9, 2008 - 8:42pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

one more acronym: KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) which seems to throw many newcomers.

RC

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Robert Rapier on June 9, 2008 - 10:05pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The one that always throws me off balance is RR: Railroad. :-)

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