Quote from: RE on Feb 11, 2026, 09:43 AMYou seem to be a Legend in your own Mind.

RE

You appear to have presumed it was built for public consumption. What a quaint idea. As far as being a legend...the folks that asked me to tackle this project never asked Colin or Jean to tackle the problem, or Ugo, or Gail, or Art, or Nate or Simone or anyone you've ever interviewed.

I was sitting there with a nice lady from the Sloan Foundation after a conference in DC, neither of us were speaking, just participating on panels and whatnot. She speaks 3 languages, has 2 PhDs, a native Russian who had migrated west during her career. She was waiting for a flight and I was waiting for a ride, so we were just hanging out. 

We had bumped into each other before, she had seen my presentations at various conferences during the early shale years, I had asked her to review my publications as a technical reviewer on at least 3 occasions, etc etc.


She had bumped into me at other national conferences and was intrigued by the various topics I had presented  and published on, particularly the heavy tilt towards practical applications. I was telling idle jokes based on my online experience among peakers, she was familiar with the type and we had a giggle fest with what we had learned about them. She had a project that needed done and the money to make it happen.

....NAH....I was probably just chosen out of the phone book at random....  😀😀

THEHILL.COM • 2026-02-11

Mad Emperor Trump declares war on the air

In A.D. 40, the mad Roman emperor Caligula commanded his legions to declare war on the sea. The emperor's insane decree did nothing to reassure a Roman state that was already doubting his mental stability.

On Monday, President Trump joined Caligula's ranks by launching his own unhinged war against the air. The Trump administration announced that it would roll back a landmark 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gases "pose a threat to public health and welfare," according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. Trump's baffling move is clearly intended as the first step in gutting the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate the major polluters that disproportionately donate to Republican politicians. It is also classic Trump — short-term thinking without any concern for long-term consequences.

Is there anything El Trumpo  could fuck up that he hasn't already thought of?  He's a fucking living breathing WMD!

RE

MOTHERJONES.COM • 2026-02-11

Pam Bondi Refuses to Apologize to Epstein Survivors

Officials failed to redact their names—and did little to address the harm.


IRISHTIMES.COM • 2026-02-11

'This screams cover-up': Pam Bondi faces fury over handling of Epstein files

Key committee hears US attorney general accused of 'incompetence' and 'jaded cruelty' over abuse survivors.

Quote from: TDoS on Feb 11, 2026, 04:39 AMI know what I did. I don't "think" I know what I did.

Well, I Googled "Who solved the Peak Oil problem" and top of the results and the closest I came to an answer was The Clean-Energy Equation No One Can Solve Yet, so your solution hasn't been pinged yet by their search bots.  Nobody on Reddit seemed to have heard of it either.  You seem to be a Legend in your own Mind.

RE

RAWSTORY.COM • 2026-02-11

Sean Duffy offers explanation for unprecedented air closure: 'Threat has been neutralized'

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Secretary Sean Duffy blamed a "drone incursion" by Mexican cartels after closing the airspace over El Paso, Texas.


BOINGBOING.NET • 2026-02-11

FAA ordered a 10-day shutdown of El Paso's airspace, then reversed it hours later

Late Tuesday, the FAA ordered every aircraft out of the sky over El Paso — commercial flights, cargo, private planes, medevac helicopters, police — for 10 days, citing "national defense" and threatening to shoot down anything that flew.

Deep drone penetration.

Build a drone with a 100 mile range that can fly to a particular place.  Use GPS to fly right to a waiting pickup truck.  Fly them at night, and they would be hard to notice.

Build one big enough and Trump can fly 14 year old Brazilian girls up to Mar-A-Lago.

Or this could be a part of the Government that is working in spite of Trump and EMP pulses were used to fry the electronics of some actual drug carrying drones.

Quote from: RE on Feb 10, 2026, 09:28 PM

Quote from: TDoS on Feb 10, 2026, 07:02 PMWell, I'm not sure what problem you are solving by sending any country back to the stone age via lack of oil

Oil not burned by Cubans available for Happy Motoring Amerikans.

Not sure what problem you are solving either.    Feel free to pat yourself on the back for whatever it is you think you did though.

RE

I know what I did. I don't "think" I know what I did.

NBCNEWS.COM • 2026-02-11

All flights at El Paso airport in Texas halted for 10 days for 'security reasons,' FAA says

 All flights to and from El Paso International Airport in Texas have been halted for "special security reasons," the Federal Aviation Administration said early Wednesday.  "No pilots may operate an aircraft in the areas covered by this NOTAM," the FAA said, using the abbreviation for Notice to Airmen. It listed the reason as "temporary flight restrictions for Special Security Reasons."

False Flag Alert!

RE

Quote from: TDoS on Feb 10, 2026, 07:02 PMWell, I'm not sure what problem you are solving by sending any country back to the stone age via lack of oil

Oil not burned by Cubans available for Happy Motoring Amerikans.

Not sure what problem you are solving either.    Feel free to pat yourself on the back for whatever it is you think you did though.

RE

Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 10, 2026, 06:46 PM

QuoteThat's not the problem with Peak Oil.  The problem is that it's a finite resource essential to the operation of industrial civilization there currently is no good replacement for and we are running short of it.

Concern about the actual peak is like looking at a tree and not seeing the forest.

Apt metaphor from a doomer perspective. But I'm not a doomer. And after we survived the Great DieOff proclaimed by the doomers during Earth Day 1970 (allegedly sometime by the 1980's) I figured you had to take their predictions with a grain of salt. As any thinking person might.

Quote from: K-DogLayoffs have surged to a nearly 20-year high, as job openings plummet.

Well, it has been awhile since we've had a hard recession. The Great Recession of 2008 was deeply involved in peak oil doom, folks who didn't know how to calculate peak oil randomly assigning it causality with any current event they could find.

The good news is that we aren't anywhere near RE's definition of collapse even with layoffs surging. A 20 year high puts it worse then Covid though doesn't it? Which was according to some the Biggest Recession Since the Great Depression. So we could be in for interesting times.

If it craters the market like the 2008 recession, I'll be dumping in available coinage just like I did back then.