Posted on 01/25/2017 7:19:49 AM PST by bananaman22
Not even reading the entire article it is obvious this is a really stupid idiot basing his premise on a false narrative. ‘After forty years we are still not energy independent’. Duh! who has been controlling the energy policy or blocking energy policy for the past forty years? So he assumes that we are going to believe that since the Democrats have not succeeded in making us energy independent then it must be impossible. IDIOT. We are not fully exploiting all available energy resources such as nuclear, clean coal, natural gas, shale oil, etc.
OMG! I did not even list water, wind, or solar. such commentary would be a waste of time due to reliability, effectiveness, etc..
Why do we even listen to these guys?
There is a 50 MW pilot plant in La Porte, Texas scheduled for first firing in March. Testing will be done with NG and draw oxygen from a nearby air-gas facility. Does carbon capture for oilfield injection, and doesn’t require water for cooling. Produces no emissions to the atmosphere.
Add a syngas process unit and will run on coal with 52% efficiency, including all the support processes and carbon capture. NG delivers 61% efficiency with the option of producing pure water output accompanied by an efficiency penalty of 2%. Search ‘Allam Cycle’ to find all the details.
Peter Kearl of Qmast LLC has a new technology for the in-place conversion of kerogen to oil, and extraction of the oil from the shale formation.
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