Posted on 01/13/2020 1:15:29 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Wonder what a happens when the supply of Nat Gas runs low. I heard that we have a 40 year supply at current consumption rates.
There will always be coal. I don’t hold much hope for nuclear since it has a worse rep than coal.
“No ash disposal with bat gas.”
“Bat gas”? You mean to say we are actually converting Bat farts to energy?
Who knew?
One of the interesting things to come out of the Democrat Fascist Party Impeachment Clown Show. Putin is a big bankroller of the propaganda war on Fraking.
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Impeachment Testimony Describes Putin’s Propaganda War On American Fracking
Once fracking opened up massive natural gas fields in the Bakken Formation, Marcellus Shale and Permian Basin, everybody is getting away from coal in short order. Mostly because cleaning up emissions from burning natural gas is vastly cheaper than cleaning up emissions from burning coal, for starters.
Plus, negative press doesn’t have an impact. You might be less inclined to invest in coal if the people in high positions state that it is bad. Foolish as it may be, it is enough to scare away investors.
What are they replacing the loss of power with? Maybe collecting cow farts and pipe it to the converted gas fired plants.
The Greenies were going after natural gas as a fuel alternative back in the Jimmy Carter administration.
There used to be a searchlight on the roof of the Playboy Club in Chicago, that was lit by a natural gas flame. Its beam was visible from many miles out by approaching aircraft coming to O’Hare, Some genius insisted on shutting off ALL the natural gas fired lanterns, down to and including gas mantle lights in people’s front yards, as it was economically encouraging further natural gas exploration, and the gas lighting was CHEAPER, even when burning 24/7, than electric lighting.
After the Playboy light was shut off, when the restrictions on the use of natural gas were lifted, the searchlight could not be turned back on, because the clubhouse, once the tallest building on its block, was now surrounded by much taller buildings, and the beam would be ineffective.
Yes. They're angry because coal isn't being replaced by 'green' energy so fracking and gas are the new 'climate emergency'.
This professor is good and covers all things energy/power. Good resource for energy.
Illinois EnergyProf
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKH_iLhhkTyt8Dk4dmeCQ9w
He talks about the future of power here...
Energy Stats: Then and Now, Here and There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31Bi2LpLoK8
But do they realize they are painting us into a corner.
We’ve barely scratched the surface of the natural gas supply from the Bakken Formation, Permian Basin and Marcellus Shale. And there is a huge amount of it sitting underneath the soil of upper New York state (upper New York state sits on the north end of the Marcellus Shale formation).
Stands to reason that with the anti-coal policies of the Obama administration over 8 years that a lot of plants that didn’t actually close were still planning to close or were foregoing needed plant maintenance and now are uneconomical. And so you get a sort of “delayed closing”.
They don’t care.
“The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that as of January 1, 2016, there were about 2,462 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of technically recoverable resources of dry natural gas in the United States. At the rate of U.S. natural gas consumption in 2016 of about 27.5 Tcf per year, the United States has enough natural gas to last about 90 years. The actual number of years will depend on the amount of natural gas consumed each year, natural gas imports and exports, and additions to natural gas reserves.
Technically recoverable reserves consist of proved reserves and unproved resources. Proved reserves of crude oil and natural gas are the estimated volumes expected to be produced, with reasonable certainty, under existing economic and operating conditions. Unproved resources of crude oil and natural gas are additional volumes estimated to be technically recoverable without consideration of economics or operating conditions, based on the application of current technology.”
They retired commercially unviable plants... which are older plants, which are almost all going to be coal..
Unlike under Obama where they were systemically targeting coal..
Which we don't need now.
Every 4 years is a threat of shutdown ; who wants to gamble a plant on that
Let them eat windmills
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