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Big Oil greening up--is this a good thing?

Big $$$Do you think the only reason they are doing this is for the money or the enviorment....lolCharles PrinceInstinct MarketingagreedCompanies that are in a free market always have only one reason to change: money, and lots of it they hope. If any businessman is worth his salt, then they'll see...

Tags: Big Oil

Discussion threads 2009-09-20

Alternative energy? BIG investment, as we've been predicting. Teensy compared to Big Oil

Alternative energy? BIG investment, as we've been predicting. Teensy compared to Big OilPaltry but significantEven if the income generated by alternative energy is paltry compared to their oil counterpart it is still significant enough to be heartening.As for Exxon suing for Venezuelan oil rights, it seems like they are...

Tags: Research & Development, alternative energy, Big Oil

Discussion threads 2008-03-22

Big Day for Big Oil, and Way to Future Profits Seems Well-lubed

Big Day for Big Oil, and Way to Future Profits Seems Well-lubedFusionYes, the sad thing is that the only technology that could solve the energy question forever is getting little attention. In the past few years, the entire world (US, Europe, Japan,...) came up with a mere $15 billion total...

Tags: Investment, OIL PRICES, Nuclear-Fusion, Big Oil, Big Day, Future Profits Seems Well-lubed, oil company, profit margin

Discussion threads 2008-03-12

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Canadians get a taste of American medical system with IMS Health buy

Oh the ironyJust another ironic investment made on behalf of Canadians over the years. As far as I know CPP is not investing using an ethical or green model, so there are probably lots of examples of very "un-Canadian" companies receiving investment via CPP.Not sure what your point is,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, IMS Health Inc., CPP, Dana, drug company, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Remember Kerry-Boxer?

Will it also......restore funding and finally open the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository?Never mind. Stupid question. No bill will pass a Democrat dominated Congress that actually encourages nuclear energy. That was the entire reason for killing Yucca Mountain, as if it had opened it would have removed...

Tags: NWR, nuclear energy

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Copenhagen countdown

"climate debt" is BS. It's wealth transfer.From countries that work, to countries that don't work.And Harry. This is a TECH SITE. Go somewhere else with your anxious alarmist nonsense.AMEN!THIS IS A TECH SITE!Well, I think going to Copenhagen is too political and he should skip it.Better to do some behind...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, sea surface temperature, wealth transfer, tax

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Global warming? No, no, no, it ain't me, babe

Harry, cut the BS. Write about tech some time.or get a job.Stop Preaching...and writing in a condescending tone. You and Blanchenwhatshisname should start your own site and stop posting this junk to a TECH site. Throwing in a line at the end about Green Jobs doesn't mean your...

Tags: Gender and diversity, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?

Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...

Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Kivalina lawsuit died but spawned similar claim

A federal court has upheld the right of Hurricane Katrina victims to sue air polluters over rising sea levels. Earlier the Inuit residents of Alaskan village, Kivalina, had won the same right. I have confirmed with the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California: The Kivalina...

Tags: Lawsuit, Exxon Mobil Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-19

The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy

I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...

Tags: Coal, Inconvenient Truth, Energy, Food & Beverage, Mortgages, Manufacturing, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-17

Calling all global cooling, how about a little help here?

Don't shoot the messenger, you might not like it that the earth is getting hotter and that we need to do something about it, but, don't get mad at those reporting it.You probably don't like all of the photos of open water over the arctic either. Nor would you want...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, climate change

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Energy prices are about to permanently alter world history

Stop this alarmist nonsense, Harry. Write something about IT. Not your pathetic eco-farts.may be you should check this outhttp://www.livescience.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=LS_091013_IONTigerHydrogen powerthe use of Hydrogen to power a UAVActually...He is right. Energy prices will probably push us to use something else. Besides gas is in limited quantity so we will reach a...

Tags: Strategy, information technology, Energy-Price

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

(NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon)

Total Waste of MaterialLets see, we explode a bomb and crash a satellite into the moon to try and confirm whether or not water is on it. And for what purpose? To make another return trip to the moon? To build space colonies? We don't have...

Tags: spacecraft, NASA, Darwin

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

News to know: Windows 7; IBM; Sony; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Measuring Windows 7 performance Dancho Danchev: Click fraud facilitating Bahama botnet steals ad revenue from Google ...

Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Sony Vaio, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, IBM Corp., Eaton, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Uncle Sam: less wasteful?

At first thought, the idea of ......disconnecting elevators to the first six floors sounds like a great idea, but what about the handicapped - there would have to be a way to let them use the elevator ... universal access to all places and all that jazz ...LudoThis blog is...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, Uncle Sam, dictator

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Next-gen operating systems: Facebook on steroids?

Chrome OS is a key building blockThis is why I think the concept of Chrome OS is so powerful.Sure you will be able to use your web apps offline, like desktop apps (thanks to HTML5/Gears), but the core functionality of the apps will live in the cloud. And because the...

Tags: Operating systems, Chrome OS, Facebook, Next-gen operating system, operating system, Next-Gen

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Cellulosic ethanol, corn, etc.

Not related to ZDNet. So why are you blogging here?ZDNET says of itself:"ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals." and "Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers the best tech news, and resources for IT hardware, software, networking and services."Given the above, why are you here,...

Tags: Blogging, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-04

Big carbon emitters fighting two wars simultaneously in America

ZDNet is a tech site.nt.To be more specific:this is a computer tech site. This is not a political forum for non-computer related rants by treehuggers and tax-increasing socialists. I am pointing out that Fuller's Gaia-licking & definitely political blogs are out of place here.And, tech will be a big part...

Tags: carbon, carbon emitter

Discussion threads 2009-10-03

Can we let the Kindle/1984 thing go already?

I wanted the Red TruckBut I wanted the red truck.Oh no, that was a limited time offer, says so right here in the fine print.Even kids know its wrong to hide behind fine print...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiAvHPPc8M8$150,000 is a little excessiveBut I like to think that Mr. Orwell's spirit is smiling at the...

Tags: Litigation, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle/1984 thing, Kindle/1984

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Lawsuit alert: carbon wars are set to begin

I actually heard one political analyst today say that "nobody" wants the EPA to single-handedly deal with greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. By that I presume this MSM reporter means nobody with lots of power or money in Washington. All sides want to see Congress weigh-in....

Tags: Lawsuit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-30