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Jul. 9th, 2006 12:54 amNot as fast on Friday; enough not as fast despite trying that I'm suspecting my earlier guess about 18mph that one day last week was in fact wrong. I don't think I made the same speed as I'd made that week, but I was at more like 14mph this time, and I don't think the difference was all of 4mph. I'd think it was more like two. Maybe I misremembered the time.
Friday's miles: 14.9
Saturday's token: 0.7
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1055.5
Miles out of Rivendell: 597.5
Miles out of Lothlórien: 135.5
Miles to Rauros Falls: 273.5
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spazzkat and I sprayed down the hornet's nest in the chimney with sweet, sweet liquid death. Eat that, motherfuckers. I hate you so much. In other exciting news, I took the car to the shop to get the starter fixed (I hope) and helped spazzkat look for kathrynt's and llachglin's smart-but-not-smart-enough-not-to-hide-from-providers-of-food cat Ash, who is hiding in the depths of their garage. annathepiper has already talked about Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which, like the first, was better than it had any right to be.
Bright Pink and Rocks
Here, have some links:
Classic DOS Games. I think I got this from somebody on my friendslist.
Not everything the fundamentalists complain about is, in fact, wrong to complain about. Concerned Women for America linked to a report of forced sterilisations of Romany women in the Czech Republic.
Remember that 10 billion barrels of oil Gulf of Mexico field announcement by President Fox back in March? No actual oil included. It does seem to be a natural gas field, however, which is good.
If you've ever seen the 70s Charlton Heston disaster-pr0n flick Soylent Green and actually paid attention, you know the actual big horror of the flick is notHeston's acting Soylent Green is People! It's PEEEEEEEEEEOPLE! but that the oceanic algae was dying. My chemistry teacher talks about this a lot: all the CO2 going into the air is acidifying the oceans, with possibly disastrous effects.
I was kind of afraid of this: Shell's costs exploding in Canadian oil sands effort. See, as oil gets more expensive, making these oil sands projects viable, the inputs required for all these sorts of megaprojects also get dramatically more expensive, scooting the profitability requirements up again as well. There is a convergence curve here, since the oil sands are a net positive energy output (about 3:1), but where it is - well, that's a good question. However, most of the non-positive EROI projects out there that will rely on electricity or somesuch are going to suffer particularly badly from this kind of problem. This particular cost event adds US$3.3B to the project (for 100,000 bpd production), which works out to US$33,000 per additional 1 bpd output capability. Over a year, that's US$90 additional/barrel/bpd. I have no idea what the lifespan of these facilities are going to be, but at 10 years before refurbishing is needed, that's an additional US$9.04/barrel amortised in raw production costs, and double that for sales cost. Over 30 years, that's $3.01/barrel, or $6/barrel (roughly) in the market. I don't know which is realistic for oil sands processing.
Friday's miles: 14.9
Saturday's token: 0.7
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1055.5
Miles out of Rivendell: 597.5
Miles out of Lothlórien: 135.5
Miles to Rauros Falls: 273.5
spazzkat and I sprayed down the hornet's nest in the chimney with sweet, sweet liquid death. Eat that, motherfuckers. I hate you so much. In other exciting news, I took the car to the shop to get the starter fixed (I hope) and helped spazzkat look for kathrynt's and llachglin's smart-but-not-smart-enough-not-to-hide-from-providers-of-food cat Ash, who is hiding in the depths of their garage. annathepiper has already talked about Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which, like the first, was better than it had any right to be. Bright Pink and Rocks
Here, have some links:
Classic DOS Games. I think I got this from somebody on my friendslist.
Not everything the fundamentalists complain about is, in fact, wrong to complain about. Concerned Women for America linked to a report of forced sterilisations of Romany women in the Czech Republic.
Remember that 10 billion barrels of oil Gulf of Mexico field announcement by President Fox back in March? No actual oil included. It does seem to be a natural gas field, however, which is good.
If you've ever seen the 70s Charlton Heston disaster-pr0n flick Soylent Green and actually paid attention, you know the actual big horror of the flick is not
I was kind of afraid of this: Shell's costs exploding in Canadian oil sands effort. See, as oil gets more expensive, making these oil sands projects viable, the inputs required for all these sorts of megaprojects also get dramatically more expensive, scooting the profitability requirements up again as well. There is a convergence curve here, since the oil sands are a net positive energy output (about 3:1), but where it is - well, that's a good question. However, most of the non-positive EROI projects out there that will rely on electricity or somesuch are going to suffer particularly badly from this kind of problem. This particular cost event adds US$3.3B to the project (for 100,000 bpd production), which works out to US$33,000 per additional 1 bpd output capability. Over a year, that's US$90 additional/barrel/bpd. I have no idea what the lifespan of these facilities are going to be, but at 10 years before refurbishing is needed, that's an additional US$9.04/barrel amortised in raw production costs, and double that for sales cost. Over 30 years, that's $3.01/barrel, or $6/barrel (roughly) in the market. I don't know which is realistic for oil sands processing.
