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Does Al Gore Finally Get It? [view article]
OK, I'm for lowering the dependence on oil AND reducing the "greenhouse gas" known as natural gas. Since "natural gas" (methane/ethane, etc) is said to be worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas, I would like to see a change from wasting our natural gas sources. Some of those sources being, refinery byproducts, landfill gas, sewer gas, swamp gas, cattle gas, frozen methane on the sea floor, etc. Since I understand CO2 is less of a threat than methane, we should catch our methane and burn it for much of our energy needs and the CO2 that is generated from that activity will be better than the methane we set free now. ReplyDoes Al Gore Finally Get It? [view article]
DAVIDLENTZ i have to go into town but i have one last thing to say. good luck to you in your trading and investing. that goes for all of you. we have been through some rough times. ReplyDoes Al Gore Finally Get It? [view article]
Thought provoking but far from convincing.Re forecast shortages of oil. Reminds me of my University Lecturer on the topic of Corrosion early 1960 - "if the world doesn't control corrosion of iron products the world will run out of iron before the end of the century". Over the next 5 years enough iron ore was found in western Australian alone to supply the world for hundreds of years. Much more has been found in the same State over the past 40 years. When oil explorers are freed from the shackles imposed by Governments I have no doubts additional large fields will be found. Emotive responses have sidelined uranium from discussion over past 40 years. It's time for it to return to the mainstream of debate.
Far from the earth heating up, facts from the past 10 years show otherwise, it's been cooling! Like everything to do with the Universe cycles exist everywhere, even in climate. Old Testament book - Ecclesiastes speaks about the seasons and the times to sow, reap and cast out etc and concludes: "there is nothing new under the sun". Quite clear - it's all happened before. Lets face it, man wasn't cause of the previous cycles so what was? Methinks political spin is being used for ulterior motives.
I live is Sydney, Australia and much of OZ has long coastal foreshores. If sea levels were going to rise, due to icecap melting in the near term, then we could expect an exodus to higher ground. Strange, no ones selling - in fact prices continue to rise [not sea levels], so punters believe otherwise. I think the punters are on the ball and far from convinced.
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Is Natural Gas Down for the Count? [view article]
2008TRAVELER fast cars are fun. enjoy. ReplyDoes Al Gore Finally Get It? [view article]
DAVID LENTZ sorry i did not answer your question. i will try as i said earlier i am no scientist. no i do not expect the upper layers of the atmosphere to be warmer because they are less dense and because they are closer to the cold vacumn. i expect the lower denser air to hold the heat more, and the water to warm even more than the air. i also expect 3% more infrared radiation. that is just my own reasoning based on elementary science. ReplyDoes Al Gore Finally Get It? [view article]
Chill folks, and think. ReplyIs Natural Gas Down for the Count? [view article]
I wonder how much gas the Haynesville Shale will bring to the market. What will this 4th largest gas field in the world do to the price of NG? I am located in the Haynesville Shale in NW Louisiana. Being here, I am starting to hear production numbers.Petrohawk has a horizontal well producing 16.8 million cubic feet per day. From Chesapeake's recent conference call on July 2nd, their 8 horizontal wells in the Haynesville are producing 5 - 15 mmcfe per day. Louisiana pipeline infrastructure is better than the other shale plays and our NG gets to market fast. It will be interesting to see what production in the Haynesville does to inventory levels. Reply
Does Al Gore Finally Get It? [view article]
DAVID LENTZ stop foaming look at what i said. perhaps for different reasons from yours but i will repeat i am all for the developement of new (preferrably clean) energy sources. i have no love affair with oil. i do recognize that we are stuck with it for awhile. so i will try to make a little money off it. i have made money in natural gas and hope to again. i am holding shares in silex which seems to have developed a better uranium enrichment process. probably we are diametrically opposed politically but on this solution we seem to agree. i say let the incentive of financial gain push to the solution. that we have no control of the suns output was why i mentioned it. i like clean air clean water and clean land but i do not like strong arm political tactics. so relax buddy lots of my friends have very different ideas from mine. i do not want to jack up taxes. it costs me and to many people who have no choice but to drive to work are already hurting. yesterday i was getting information on this site from a lady who is trying to use alternate methods to power her home. i would like to do the same if i find a way that is cost effective. i want to save money. yesterday i was commenting that while our politicians were sitting on their hands at best and getting in the way as usual pickens was leading an attack on the problem. i thought the attack should be broader but was in no way criticizing his efforts. i am all for him and hope to find a way to invest my drop in the bucket to ride his coattails. as far as treason. i believe most of congress and bill (since the impeachment was derailed from treason to monica) should also stand trial for treason. oh, many supreme court judges should at least be reviewed. this seems a good thing that we can discuss our differences civilly and find that there is much we agree on for our own reasons. scotty belay that order. ReplyDoes Al Gore Finally Get It? [view article]
Congress is in session debating raising the gas taxes. 18% from what I have heard. ReplyDoes Al Gore Finally Get It? [view article]
Here are the things we CAN do -- as I see them (and I could well be wrong or overly limited or simply not imaginative enough) --1) get off the petroleum economy, ASAP. Jack up taxes to discourage consumption, offer incentives to use other energy sources.
2) start conserving energy via more efficient designs for appliance, homes, cars, etc.
3) begin rebuilding the deconstructed passenger rail system, as in short order we will not be able to fly except via nationalized airlines, paid for from our tax dollars
4) get serious about nuclear power -- overhaul the bureaucratic nightmare makes it take years to get anything approved. Create workable "standard" designs and USE them, instead of having each one be a custom design with its own learning curve.
5) follow T Boone's lead on windpower and natural gas -- not that it's the only solution, it just seems likely to produce results in short order
6) crank up tax incentives for people to install PV solar and convert our national centralized power generation network into a decentralized one, with the utilities acting as brokers instead of sources. Perhaps we need to separate those roles, with separately-owned power grids.
7) invest in long-shot R&D efforts, like the Bussard Polywell fusion reactor (google it). If we can spend billions year in and year out on Tokamak research, we can kick in the $200M to see if his prototype scales up.
8) throw out the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (with the Enron loophole), so that our national energy markets are not "gamed" by investment bankers and hedge funds.
(9 I was going to say to investigate Bush & Cheney for treason and war profiteering, but I'm starting to foam at the mouth, so I'd better stop here. Reply
Does Al Gore Finally Get It? [view article]
fireball -- let me pick up the gauntlet about your 3% increase in solar radiation. If the planet were being warmed by the sun via an increase in radiation, would you not expect that the upper layers of the atmosphere would be warmer than the lower ones? The data does not show that.Perhaps one could make the case that the additional sunlight is being converted to infrared when it hits the ground, and held in by clouds. There is data that shows a statistically significant correlation between cloud cover and temperature for the week that air travel was grounded following 9-11, the cloud cover being a direct result of contrails and water vapor from combustion directly contributing to cloud formation. But that argument leads back to our use of petroleum-based fuels, so I doubt that you want to go that route.
In any event, it is clear that the thing being modeled (the planet) is a WHOLE lot more complex than a ball with incident radiation impinging upon it. Possibly more complex than we are capable of understanding.
That means the "cause" of global warming could be any or all of a huge range of things, and not attributable to any one thing, but possibly interruptible by altering a few key things. News flash -- we cannot alter the output of the sun.
While a runaway greenhouse effect may or may not eventually occur, the consequences of it happening are significant enough to deal with it as if it were going to.
And in any event, LONG before we get to that stage, we will have seen widespread climate change, possibly the desertification of most of the places where we grow food, amid an exponential increase in the number of mouths demanding to be fed. Reply
Does Al Gore Finally Get It? [view article]
do not get me wrong. i am all for cleaning up everything we can. at the same time be realistic. we are going to need oil for years. i am for developing any energy source that is cost effective. liquid coal offers good potential for clean fuel eventually and we have an abundant supply. i like geothermal. i like conservationism. i do not like environmental extremism. right now we need energy and the problem should be attacked on all fronts. when it makes money then we can afford to worry about cleanliness. ReplyDoes Al Gore Finally Get It? [view article]
Except for the obviously foreseeable economic consequences of continuing to send hundreds of billions of dollars out of the country for energy, and the obvious reality of global warming (whatever the cause), this "debate" would be comical.People are simply too locked into their own POVs, unwilling to question them, and unwilling to work out and resolve conflicting data -- other than to ignore what doesn't fit into their own preconceived notions and trumpet the "truth" of their own "opinions" and the "lies" that others believe.
There are solid economic reasons to get off petroleum ASAP, by any and all means. No one method is likely to prove viable by itself. But instead people quibble about the finer details of a question that probably cannot be definitively answered for a thousand years, when it will be too late to do anything about it if they are wrong.
Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life on THIS world (or at least in short order the little that exists will expire). Reply
Is Natural Gas Down for the Count? [view article]
Further analysis is required regarding NG as a transportation fuel. When Boone Pickens throws out the idea that NG is half the cost of gasoline, is he talking about BTUs or gas mileage equivalent? How does it compare in the tank? What would be the cost of modifications to existing vehicles? Don't forget the $2000 to $3000 to have a PHIL installed in your garage until gas stations sell compressed NG. The price at the pump and mileage are the key. And when we make all these changes someone should calculate when peak natural gas will arrive and what the ROI will be. If it lets me drive my big block Chevy sign me up! ReplyIs Natural Gas Down for the Count? [view article]
is it time to repurchase ngs yet? i think longterm yes. the reasons are mentioned by the previous posters. one thing not mentioned is increasing world demand. europe is not going to trust russia for supplies any more than they must i would guess china will be wanting more. Reply