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"The administration then botched the White House reception for the Chinese leader, confusing China’s national anthem for the one of its arch rival, Taiwan..." LOL

Dude, who are you preaching to? Yeah, EGS sounds good. Proven? The first commercial plant hasn't even been commissioned, yet. The 3 cent per KWHr cost you mentioned is the low end of a possible future estimated range of from 3 to 9 cents. The same piece (yeah, I read it too) also goes on to say that costs are simply not known at this time, which of course is obvious, since the technology has yet to go commercial. You can be an effective proponent of something without trying to bullshit people about it. Just sayin....

No still means no, Hugh. Sorry man.

Move over, Toby Keith!

If you love something, get it for free.

Mmmmmm, Jewish babies.....

My favorite was the scene where they've lost their fire, they're sitting in the middle of a freezing bog, one guy just keels over and dies, and the other guys don't bat an eye. HARSH

"see the ass > fuck the ass"

I got a hankerin' for some euroch, mfkrz.

We've traded short and brutish for long, quiet, and desperate.

Anyway, I'm reading a book about the history of food, not Diamond's funky shit.

Fuck Quest for Fire. I'm going for the 1 Million Years BC version.

EGS would probably require the gubmint to largely foot the bill for the first commercial scale operation in the US to prove out the technology for industry, then healthy investment incentives thereafter for development. The hard rock drilling required is twice as expensive as for oil and gas for the same depth. Probably the only way cost per kWHr can be brought down to competitive, sub 10 cent level. Figgrin' out how to get a deep man made reservoir to work right will require extensive experimentation. Not a conspiracy, just an expensive, very experimental technology that will require a huge effort to work the bugs out and build it out to a commercial scale. Also, don't forget to build the plant life cycle cost into it: Sites are only viable for a few decades before the heat extraction process cools them down too much. Game's over until it heats back up...a century or more later.

Actually, hunter gatherers lived five years longer and were 5 inches taller, on average, than the first agrarians, who were relatively poorly nourished and overworked. Paleolithic folks were within a couple of inches of being as tall as we are today. With their lower population densities, nomadic lifestyle, diversified diets, healthier bodies, and egalitarian ethos, they were less at risk of disease and malnutrition, or famine than early farmers. War is largely an expensive, surplus intensive luxury that most paleolithic folks avoided most of the time out of sheer necessity.

Of course! Nice, cheap red wine. No autographs...these dolls are made of steel.

I do. The opening is at Avanti Art and Design on 73rd and Greenwood, 6 to 9 pm tonight. Come on down!

you might add a doctor to that list....

That is precisely why I am without ego, my son.

"mrs kennedy liked bananas. mrs lincoln went bananas" That was Nancy, not Jackie, foo!

I would like to know what brand of lip gloss Palin uses, cuz it effectively creates the illusion that she's actually alive.

Some conservative beyotch's been using my shower? Now I know all those Clairol Nice n Easy empties came from....

But hey, you're without ego, ergo: no big.

As a sig, maybe. As a thread...not so much, apparently.

OH...yeah, well then, happy birthday to you, too!

Fuck Silver. I'm hording Plutonium.