Posted on 01/31/2006 12:25:34 AM PST by truemiester
The world economy is currently running on a resource that is controlled by our enemies. This threatens to leave us prostrate. It must change—and the good news is that it can change, quickly.
Using portions of the hundreds of billions of petrodollars they are annually draining from our economy, Middle Easterners have established training centers for terrorists, paid bounties to the families of suicide bombers, and funded the purchase of weapons and explosives. Oil revenues underwrite new media outlets that propagandize hatefully against the United States and the West. They pay for more than 10,000 radical madrassahs set up around the world to indoctrinate young boys with the idea that the way to paradise is to murder Christians, Jews, and Hindus. It was men energized by oil-revenue resources who killed 3,000 American civilians on September 11, 2001, and who have continued to kill large numbers of Westerners in Iraq and elsewhere. We are thus subsidizing acts of war against ourselves.
And we have not yet reached the culmination of the process. Iran and other states are now
(Excerpt) Read more at taemag.com ...
"The most depressing thing about it is that our while our enemies have not only declared war on us but are vigorously waging that war about half the population our country refuses to recognize that we are at war."
Two words:
Open borders.
Seems like some people at the top are either BS'ing us regarding the WOT or they just don't give a damn.
ping for a later read
powerful bttt - read later file & PING!
The point is not about avoiding the war. The war is inevitable, the moslems are commanded by their scriptures to fight against us until they win or die. The point is about winning that war.
that's a good question.
first off, I'm a layman, but I think one answer to your prompt would be - discussing the net efficiencies of petroleum seem to focus on the bang-for-buck at point of use - I think petroleum currently has more bang.
But part of that calculation for bang reflects the current high cost/low numbers of highly evolved technologies now existing for hydrogen usage - the oilheads compare the proven petroleum tech to the unproven (and not widespread/complicated, etc...) hydrogen tech and factor that into their calcs.
And one thing I've noticed; not one of the oil-heads EVER takes into account the energy/electrical loss in distributing the energy fm petroleum down through the infrastructure. Pipelines, ships, insurance costs, gas stations, electrical power plants, electrical lines, etc... all these cost energy to distribute.
why are not these factored into the oil Bang-4-Buck? Methinks it would then draw focus away from the current paradigm, which can be described as corporate model, or how can we maximize/discover new resource fields/increase efficiency in our current energy model (fields-derrick-transport-refinery-infrastructure delivery-user). People might start asking how the paradigm can be changed.
All the above steps have persons/companies/government with their hands out taking a bit of $$$ at each step. Witness: a barrel of oil - 45 gallons - costs the saudis, etc., roughly $4 to $7 to extract... yet we're paying $68.00 per barrel now, and how may gallons of gas do we get out of a 45 gallon barrel? I don't know what happens in the distillation process, am sure 2nd law of thermodynamics impacts, but don't have the data. But it must be making someone some money, 'cause it's costing us 3 bucks a gallon to fill up the tank.
Who knows? I'm sure there's a future for hydrogen, and sooner than we think. Finland is about 10 years into a 20 year plan designed to run their entire energy needs on hydrogen. Granted, that nation is a floating thermal steam valve, but the point is, it's inevitable.
I think the fear the corporations have is that if we discover how to harness hydrogen at the user level, there'll no longer be a need for all that 20th century industrial paradigm, the-corporation-is-GOD model.
Again, am but a layman, would love to hear from any freepers more knowledgeable than I on this.
That so-called "waste" is actually a fuel source that can be safely reprocessed and recycled to produce usable energy for hundreds of years.
Petroleum has one advantage: it is actually a source of energy, unlike hydrogen.
H2 production is a net energy loss no matter how you slice it.
One would have to study and confirm the accuracy and utility of the proposals given here before accepting them. The writer is a globalwarming exponent (at least he writes as one) and such people are noted for fantasy data.
Sophistry. The alcohol standard is no different than the hydrogen standard. Both are manufactured fuels, except that alcohol is even less efficient than hydrogen. At least with hydrogen, you can crack it from water using nuclear power. All alcohol is is sunlight processed through a highly inefficient clorophyll manufacturing process.
Coal mining and production produces more loose radiation annually than Nuclear plants in America and Europe ever have.
Petroleum suffers substantial losses in extracting, shipping, refining and delivery. Energy writers just won't mention them.
I'd like to see a comparison of net efficiencies of various fuel infrastructures, but these articles only show the H2 efficiencies.
For those same forty years our energy production has been crippled by our catering to those enemies and especially to their allies here in America, the environmentalists and socialists who yearn just as much for the defeat and destruction of America as the Saracens do.
They recognize the war. It seems otherwise because it is difficult for everyday Americans to understand that those people are on the other side. They are as engaged in this war as are the troops in Iraq.
They'll be comparable because they both use steam turbines to produce the electricity, although nuclear may be slightly better because it can operate at a higher temperature.
Related post:
Ethanol Can Replace Gasoline with Big Energy Savings (cellulosic ethanol is best)
I hope President Bush does focus on energy in his State of the Union.
As a side note, I just heard that scientist have finally put together the complete genome for the corn plant. This will enable advances that will make corn the ethanol producer we want.
Conservation is being worked on in all sectors, from changes in the lightbulb to the way industry runs machinery. The cost of energy must be encouraging better efficiencies.
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