Posted on 05/03/2012 12:51:07 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Yeah, I saw that... but still... all of this is happening on the North Slope, right? It sounded to me that the Japanese were interested in getting this into production quickly on our soil - and thus would need a delivery means to get the product from there to a port for their boats. I may be misreading it, but that was my interpretation.
I really don’t give a damn what happens to them. Let them eat “F”ing sand.
While significantly better than ethanol (except in octane rating) I don't see it as good as diesel. Shell's Pearl GTL plant also produces Naphtha with is part of the feedstock to gasoline.
I haven't seen anyone successfully make the economics work for Butanol. Shell's process in now in commercial use at their second facility. I expect we will soon see more of them.
OK,...thanks.
Little bammy will be ordering “Global Methane Hydrates Safety Oversight and Management Committees” within the week.
He will appoint the current Chairperson of the U.S. Government Department of Diversity and Inclusion to manage it due to their strong qualifications in the fields of Community Organizing and memberships in GLBT Office of Affairs, Aztlan, Raza, MEChA and The Communist Party USA.
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See the map,...Japan has hydrates along it's coast according to the map.
Could this be used on the methane from cow f*rts? haha
Oh great - Japan, China, India, Pakistan could all have claims in those areas. What could go wrong?
Well they sure have enough silica handy to keep their hunger pangs down to a minimum.
I’ve read that there are an estimated 1,000 years supply, based on current demand, of methyl hydrates.
Sounds like the biggest issue is finding a large supply of carbon dioxide. Maybe they should scrap up all the tundra and burn it?
I love diesels.I'm driving my second one now and will *never* again drive anything else.Thanks to its outstanding fuel economy I firmly believe that diesel can be a big part of the short term solution,maybe even medium term.But if the reports I've read about *our* supply of natural gas are true I think that *it* is the answer...long term.
As you may,or may not,know about half of the passenger cars on the road in Europe today are diesels.In fact I've heard it suggested that Europe and the US have it exactly wrong,given their particular transportation needs...Europe should be driving gasoline cars and we should be driving diesels.Go figure!
Time to Chu this and lock it down.
So then......Large domes placed on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico with pipes to the shore, to a methane to Natural Gas facility and viola!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s simple Jim.........
The amount of methane gassing away at the bottom of the Gulf is enormous.
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pretty incredible,, all that energy just lying around, waiting to be exploited, maybe they’ll find dilithium crystals too if they keep looking.. but then the sierra club and nrdc and epa will sue ‘em to block development. ;-)
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