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    Sweden aims for oil-free economy

    Sweden says it aims to completely wean itself off oil within 15 years - without building new nuclear plants.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4694152.stm

    If they can do it then credit where credits due.

    Perhaps the EU should be getting it's act together and redirecting all those CAP billions into like something like this for Europe as a whole...
    Last edited by Joe Black; 8 February 2006, 20:50.

    #2
    Oil, Not here please were green !

    Yep. Good luck to them.
    The smart money is on projects like this and then selling the experience to others.

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      #3
      One of the ways that they achieve this is by building houses properly.

      My week day residence is a constant 21 degrees when it's rarely been above zero each day, with almost no heating turned on.

      My UK weekend retreat (!) is sometimes down to 18 degrees with the heating going full blast all the time (and leaking through the walls).

      tim

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        #4
        Hows the research into fusion power going ? anyone ?
        (\__/)
        (>'.'<)
        ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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          #5
          Originally posted by EternalOptimist
          Hows the research into fusion power going ? anyone ?
          I thought FORD cracked that one a couple of years ago
          Your parents ruin the first half of your life and your kids ruin the second half

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            #6
            Originally posted by Joe Black
            Sweden says it aims to completely wean itself off oil within 15 years - without building new nuclear plants.

            http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4694152.stm

            If they can do it then credit where credits due.

            Perhaps the EU should be getting it's act together and redirecting all those CAP billions into like something like this for Europe as a whole...

            Wow! Would be brilliant if it could be done.

            I must say I admire the old Scandies - they have a more intelligent, considered take on many things - must be all those long, cold, dark nights filled with infrequent, yet imaginative sex in front of a glowing birchwood fire.

            The world needs somebody to look at this problem from a different, more-rational angle, and maybe they're the chaps.

            You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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              #7
              they have a more intelligent, considered take on many things
              You've not tried living here have you?
              must be all those long, cold, dark nights
              Many go insane and top themselves, or go on rampages.
              different
              Quite probably.
              more-rational
              Certainly not.
              Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
              threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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                #8
                Originally posted by threaded
                You've not tried living here have you?
                Yes I have, in Vallentuna from 1985 to 1988.

                You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by bogeyman
                  Yes I have, in Vallentuna from 1985 to 1988.
                  If Sweden is such a great place why did only 3000 Eastern Europeans go there to work as opposed to 450,000 who came to the UK and Ireland?
                  Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by bogeyman
                    Yes I have, in Vallentuna from 1985 to 1988.
                    That's the suburb with all the soviet era apartment blocks. My commiserations.
                    Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
                    threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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