nakedjaybird

Making Natural Gas Transportation a Reality

Sorry Fitz - I'd still rather have Steven Chu leading the way than you and your NG mantra for transportation.

All we need for an effective short term and long term reduction of 5-7 million barrels/day in oil consumption is to permanently implement the equibalent responses to the 1973 Oil Embargo:

1) for people (and some goods) movement: car-pooling, van-pooling, busses and transit systems for the folks within beltways; teleconferening, elimination of marketing jaunts; minimizing use of private planes and maximize full commerical flights; High speed trains; more rails (100% electric); install electrified ferries within interstate right of ways (local intra and express interstate).

2) for cargo and goods movement: put it on the steel wheeled rails and barges and get it off the rubber tired interstates.

3) electrify every end use.

4) install AMAP solar and wind.

So come on, next embargo; teach the folks a second time. Only keep the fixes in place and/or improve on them for permancey.

Book Review: Robert Hefner's 'The Grand Energy Transition'

Hey Fitz - great that Hef know the differences. Now to get the simplistic more accurate. As for it being over my head, I'd like to think that I'd recognize it first, and also admit it, second.

Book Review: Robert Hefner's 'The Grand Energy Transition'

Fitz - goodness gracious. By the time Hefner writes his second book, God forbid, he may put natural gas into the fossil fuel category along with coal gas. Of course that will have to be after he realizes the sun is FUSION at it's best, not a ball of burning hydrogen.....duh? Careful who you read and what they are pumping....!