Ferdinand E. Banks

Ethanol vs. Natural Gas or Coal: Comparison Not Even Close

EROI doesn't mean a lot to me for reasons found in my textbook, and the bad mouthing of 'politicians' doesn't mean a lot either: American voters gave George Bush a second term. and he thanked them by running the economy into the ground.

I can add that this is an extremely valuable article. It needs to be widely distributed - minus certain items of course.

Global Warming: Investment Implications

So Chrichton was a "scientist", was he. I thought that he was some kind of medical doctor. I tell you what, I've taught mathematical economics all over the world, and the only times I've ever called myself a mathematician was after the cognac had gone around the table a couple of times.

Even if Chrichton was a graduate physicist his view on global warming was worthless. Of less value than mine in fact, because
I go along with the main men in the field - by which I do NOT mean Al Gore.

The Truth About Fossil Fuels and Renewable Energy (Part II)

Economics and thermodynamics - my best subjects. Thanks for mentioning them. Thanks also for putting in a good word for nuclear, although I think that the TV audience is getting the message at last.

But no thanks for this talk about the huge amount of natural gas in the US. Maybe it is there, but my ears are still in pretty good shape, and until recently all I could hear was that NG buyers are going to be in trouble before long. Of course, things have changed because of the macroeconomy, but I when the directors of some of the largest corporations in North America expressed skepticism about the supply of gas.

By the way Jerrydd, I had hoped to avoid discussing cap-and-trade in my new energy book because I thought that everyone understood that it is strictly wrong, but did I read that you are in favor of it? Don't you know that it has failed in Europe? Am I the only one who knows that?