Posted on 09/14/2004 4:51:19 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Really good news --> "Oceans of fossil fuel-like gases and fluids, enough to support a high-tech society for many millennia to come, might exist far deeper inside the Earth than we've ever drilled before, researchers speculate."
Environ Wackos declare this really bad news --> "Environmental groups reacted warily to the news. Kert Davies of Greenpeace USA in Washington stressed the last thing the world needs is an even more abundant source of "global warming" gases than are already being burned in the world's cars and factories.
"The distant prospect of new methane reserves shouldn't for a moment divert us from developing nonpolluting, renewable energy sources," said Daniel Hinerfeld of the Natural Resources Defense Council branch office in Santa Monica.
In any event, Hinerfeld said, "at current rates of consumption, we're going to need alternative forms of energy long before these hypothetical reserves are accessible."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Don't forget, too, that natural gas is the darling fuel of the left because it has lots of hydrogen and doesn't produce as much CO2 as coal (which is effectively all carbon).
And check out the argument in the last line. Because this resource won't be available until the far future (maybe for our kids or grandkids), we shouldn't develop it. This is the same argument these kooks make for not drilling in ANWR -- if it doesn't solve 100% of our energy problem, then don't do it.
Nothing makes these simpletons happy except everybody walking to work and wiping their bums with leaves, not TP.
The SUVs put it there.
Years ago I read in an article in which an man said that if you dig a hole deep enough, you can find oil anywhere. I'm sorry I don't remember the man's name, but this is an interesting article, and it seems to match the man's theory somewhat.
Wow!
Imagine that hydrocarbons underground!
Man, whoda thunk it!
Yep, if we just learn how to drill and produce magma, we'll be energy independent! (/sarcasm)
They should fall for that:
He's probably right, the problem is how deep and what kind of oil.
The problem is the middle east has light sweet crude practically bubbling up out of the ground.
This makes it commercially unfeasable to make a Journey to the Center of the Earth with the hopes of scoring some sour crude that has to be heated to 200deg F just to flow.
Is that a subtle hint that you don't care much for Bill O?
I vote for sinking a set of metal bars into the magma and using that heat for electricity; we can also use it for directly impacting Global Warming and drive the left completely nuts. /sarc
There's a phenomenon where methane at very high pressures and low temperatures (like at the ocean floor) turns into a stable substance called Methane Hydrate
If we can figure out a good way to extract it, we would have a large renewable energy source (as new methane from decomposing sealife continually regenerates the source)
It is true that some countries in Asia are expected to add much to oil consumption and help us use up what we can now get to fairly quickly.
But to the further frowns of the greenies, with more rare and expensive fuel for vehicles:
Manufacturing will need to be started again in the USA as a result of fuel getting more expensive.
To be close enough to work without using fuel, more people will need to move to back to small communities in rural areas, thereby lessening what is really "urban sprawl" (denser, growing urban areas, poisoning the ground they sit on).
Manufacturing will need to be less centralized and more ruralized to afford an end to long commutes.
Real families with legitimately married parents will happen again. Two people in each house use less fuel resources (even PV and batteries) than one.
The possibilities of breaking anti-family and anti-American (outsourcing, etc.) efforts are many.
Remaining reserves will be horded by the various world military organizations. Then someday, we'll have to cope with a new discovery of plentiful, powerful energy for transportation again. People will again move all over the place. Families will scatter, as they do now. Wars will be back.
Makes it read better.
This reminds me of the argument about wealth needing to be distributed. There is infinite wealth in the world but a lack of capitalism. There are infinite energy sources in the world but a lack of resolve to obtain them.
LOL! I totally agree!
Holy Cow! Danger! Danger! What if we tap into the supply and the Earth takes off through the Solar System like a rocket! Can't take the chance!
Hey, it happened on that old TV show Space 1999 where the moon took off after a big nuke-u-ler 'splosion.
It could like totally happen here. Especially if like, someone was smoking just as they drilled into a big gas reserve.
You are thinking of Professor Emiritus of Astrophysics, Thomas Gold. For a summary of his views see:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/gold_pr.html
Or do a Google search on Thomas, Gold, Hydrocarbons, and Biosphere.
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