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To: TobagoJack who wrote (73309)	4/18/2011 7:15:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217573

I suspect I could teach Confucianism. <shall not relearn vvv they and you shall be educated in confucianism i hope you are up for it ;0) > How is it different? I could ask Google but you might have a convenient executive summary of differences. It's probably somewhat primitive as a philosophy, but good enough for the day, and a thousand years or two. From what I have experienced and know of China, it's remarkably short of Confucian values. Perhaps not as much in deficit as the descendants of England are suffering loss of VVV. There is room for improvement everywhere, which is excellent. It is not a good situation to be in Utopia because then what? Fortunately, there is no danger of that, especially in China where a quick glance around shows vast deficits. People who approach Utopia find the need to go adventuring into less Utopian locales. I'm planning conquest of China and so far, so good. You tried to resist, but were drawn into the web. Noblesse oblige, Mqurice PS: Amusing that you sold gold! Yea of little faith. Did you not read my predictions?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (73309)	4/19/2011 4:17:52 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217573

Peak Oil - it seems not so fast - methane hydrates are plentiful on the oceans floors Hydrocarbons In The Deep Earth Livermore CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2011 A new computational study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals how hydrocarbons may be formed from methane in deep Earth at extreme pressures and temperatures. The thermodynamic and kinetic properties of hydrocarbons at high pressures and temperatures are important for understanding carbon reservoirs and fluxes in Earth. The work provides a basis for understanding experiments that demonstrated polymerization of methane to form high hydrocarbons and earlier methane forming reactions under pressure. Hydrocarbons (molecules composed of the elements hydrogen and carbon) are the main building block of crude oil and natural gas. Hydrocarbons contribute to the global carbon cycle (one of the most important cycles of the Earth that allows for carbon to be recycled and reused throughout the biosphere and all of its organisms). The team includes colleagues at UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Shell Projects and Technology. One of the researchers, UC Davis Professor Giulia Galli, is the co-chair of the Deep Carbon Observatory's Physics and Chemistry of Deep Carbon Directorate and former LLNL researcher. Geologists and geochemists believe that nearly all (more than 99 percent) of the hydrocarbons in commercially produced crude oil and natural gas are formed by the decomposition of the remains of living organisms, which were buried under layers of sediments in the Earth's crust, a region approximately 5-10 miles below the Earth's surface. But hydrocarbons of purely chemical deep crustal or mantle origin (abiogenic) could occur in some geologic settings, such as rifts or subduction zones said Galli, a senior author on the study. "Our simulation study shows that methane molecules fuse to form larger hydrocarbon molecules when exposed to the very high temperatures and pressures of the Earth's upper mantle," Galli said. "We don't say that higher hydrocarbons actually occur under the realistic 'dirty' Earth mantle conditions, but we say that the pressures and temperatures alone are right for it to happen.