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Posted on 06/03/2011 12:34:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You’ve heard that we’re running out of oil. You’ve heard that natural gas has a finite and ever-shortening supply. The media has been reporting on Peak Oil for decades, and the peak has always been just around the next corner. But what if that weren’t true, and for practical purposes, the US has an unlimited supply of fossil fuel for its energy needs? Would that not undercut the entire notion of an energy crisis, except as self-inflicted?
Get ready for a paradigm change, courtesy of … Salon? (via Ace)
Are we living at the beginning of the Age of Fossil Fuels, not its final decades? The very thought goes against everything that politicians and the educated public have been taught to believe in the past generation. According to the conventional wisdom, the U.S. and other industrial nations must undertake a rapid and expensive transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy for three reasons: The imminent depletion of fossil fuels, national security and the danger of global warming.
What if the conventional wisdom about the energy future of America and the world has been completely wrong? …
If gas hydrates as well as shale gas, tight oil, oil sands and other unconventional sources can be tapped at reasonable cost, then the global energy picture looks radically different than it did only a few years ago. Suddenly it appears that there may be enough accessible hydrocarbons to power industrial civilization for centuries, if not millennia, to come.
So much for the specter of depletion, as a reason to adopt renewable energy technologies like solar power and wind power. Whatever may be the case with Peak Oil in particular, the date of Peak Fossil Fuels has been pushed indefinitely into the future. What about national security as a reason to switch to renewable energy?
The U.S., Canada and Mexico, it turns out, are sitting on oceans of recoverable natural gas. Shale gas is combined with recoverable oil in the Bakken “play” along the U.S.-Canadian border and the Eagle Ford play in Texas. The shale gas reserves of China turn out to be enormous, too. Other countries with now-accessible natural gas reserves, according to the U.S. government, include Australia, South Africa, Argentina, Chile, France, Poland and India.
Let’s stipulate that we may still want to move away from gasoline as a personal-vehicle fuel for reasons other than supply. Refining uses a lot of energy, for instance, and the entire process produces emissions other than carbon dioxide that really do present problems in large quantities. Rather than switching to electricity, which is hardly an environmental boon (as I explained earlier this week), we should move to natural gas instead. We have had that technology for decades, going back to at least the 1980s when I drove a natural gas powered taxi … very, very briefly. The fuel burns cleanly and it allows for a normal range on vehicles without overloading an already-problematic grid.
One potential reason this technology hasn’t captured the imagination is because it would take drilling and exploration to find it. Documentaries such as Gasland have soured the public on the newer extraction technologies, but as Phelim McAleer explains, the film didn’t bother to mention that reports of flammable water in the region go back decades before fracking began. “It’s not relevant,” Gasland director Josh Fox replies when challenged:
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As I said earlier, the energy crisis in this country is entirely self-inflicted, mainly because the demagogues and Chicken Littles have controlled the narrative for far too long.
No but the finding of oceans of hydrocarbons on Titan seems to give serious evidence that oil doesn’t come from dinosaurs.
There´s enough oil down there to last us 200+ years. But we´ve got to get at it, and passed soetoro.
define “unlimited”
what is fossil fuel? I have buried animals before, dug them up a year later, and there was no oil there...same with compost....oil is NOT fossil fuel, this is a myth
>>what is fossil fuel? I have buried animals before, dug them up a year later, and there was no oil there...same with compost....oil is NOT fossil fuel, this is a myth<<
That is because you are an ignorant idiot.
It takes TWO years. ;)
No kidding!
How did the dinos get 50,000 ft. under the earth?
Myth indeed.
“Constantly Replenishing”
Yep. Just google Thomas Gold and Oil and you’ll get your jump start on this thing. He was saying this at least a decade ago.
Basically, he is saying the earth actually CREATES oil, like it creates lava, but I oversimplify.
>>No but the finding of oceans of hydrocarbons on Titan seems to give serious evidence that oil doesn’t come from dinosaurs.<<
Either that, or Titan has a VERY colorful history. :)
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We have plenty of oil and gas here to last at least 400 years. And that’s just what we know about.
What we are lacking is the will to recover it. Look at the members of our political class. They are mostly attorneys and professional politicians. And very few scientists, or engineers. The attorney mind set doesn’t understand, or doesn’t want to understand, scientific principles.
Attorneys are not trained to argue facts. They argue ideas, which allows them to argue either side of a subject. They spin until whichever side they are arguing wins. Facts have nothing to do with it.
We need more engineers and scientists and business leaders elected to Congress. The attorneys need to be retired. Keep a hanful inplace to draft the laws, but let the people trained to do the thinking solve the problems.
google abiotic oil
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“Constantly Replenishing”
This is true but the problem is it takes million of years to replace what we have used. Most don’t understand what peak oil means. To put it simply it is about the cheap conventional drilled for oil we have been extracting for the last 150 yrs. And it does not mean it is all gone. It is just means the production of it is decreasing.
Most of the new oil being discovered is by non conventional means ( read expensive ) . We are a long way from running out but it is going to cost more not only in inflated dollars, but in real dollars.
My husband has been in oil related businesses for more than 40 years. He holds 10 patents on drilling and pipeline devices. He personally brought in the first North Sea well with a piece of equipment he designed. He says when you sink a well, you drill through hundreds of feet of peat, just like you might find in a bog in Ireland. The peat is hot and it's cooking. Then when the peat runs out, you hit gas, and then oil. It's true. THe earth is creating oil under our feet all the time. It's God's gift to us.
But as tech and knowledge advance the price drops so non-conventional becomes conventional
2. Greenhouse gases going to kill us all -> Greenhouse gases at near world history lowest levels
3. Colder climate good -> Colder climate bad
4. Global warming coming -> Glaciation coming and we are in the middle of the coldest part of our ice age
5. Staple food, 'grains' -> No staple food but should be a balanced diet
6. CO2 so high we are all going to die -> CO2 so low plants are suffocating and adapting to the extremely low levels
that is a good start I have to go.
You realize that's a little creepy?
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