famos

Energy Firms Should Look to U.S. Shale - Barron's

Dear Rachael & Commentors,

Here we go, beating around the bush again., Oil? Energy crisis. What energy crisis? There is no energy crisis - there is a transportation crisis.

Transportation is getting anything and/or anyone transported to somewhere else, and transportation is the area that requires the bulk of our energy. And without transportation our world will certainly change for the worst. Anyway, the days of wind transportation are past (Boone Pickens) and the days of powering by hydrogen are yet to come (automotive industry.) So,

The solution:

Ample energy sources already exist, the manufacturing process exists, the delivery infrastructure exists, the storage facility exists, the vehicle technology exists, the price competitiveness exists - all things exist, that's why it's called the Solution. It's even been successfully tested.

1. Ample energy source = Coal. 100 years known energy reserves.

2. Manufacturing process = Fischer-Tropsch, coal to clean diesel..

3. Delivery = use existing pipelines, tankers, trucks.

4. Storage = use existing refiner tanks & gas station tanks.

5. Vehicle technology = ships, plans, trains, trucks, cars run on diesel. This is exceptionally clean diesel.

6. Competitiveness = cost equivalent to $30±. per barrel of oil.

7. Successfully tested = German army, Second World War.


P.S. There are many other very useful advantages, e.g., solid waste into clean diesel that would downsize our landfill and run our garbage trucks. Meat processing wastes into clean diesel and power our military jet engine planes, etc. on & on, & on. These plants are being built as we speak.

Probably the solution is too easy to accept without feeling totally foolish, since it's been right in our face for so long. If, the solution is too simple to figure out by the people back in Washington and you want some help, give me a call.

Sincerely,

famos
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