Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/31/2011 6:29:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This came from Salon? Dang.
And this article comes from Salon? I didn’t know they were “in” on the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy to ruin the earth, and kill off grandma. Will wonders never cease!
Get this to Rush Limbaugh, Stat!!
Hard to believe that this is coming from Salon. His analysis is correct and it is refreshing to see it in print.
Yikes.
They drilled three gas wells not more than 200 feet from a farmhouse I previously rented from my boss right on 820. Except for traffic through the property the three times they brought in the rigs, I barely knew they were there, unless they brought me a steak dinner once in awhile. The baffles contain enough noise that it was no more bothersome than the white noise off the freeway. Once they got the permits, they had three wells drilled within a year.
Back in the teen years, I drove around an old ‘54 GMC truck rigged up with butane, my dad was distributor, and I could switch back and forth to gasoline. That old truck is still on our farm and we use it to haul stuff.
There are some other items out there that slow down depletion. For example we are going to be replacing all of our lighting systems with LEDs. You take a decade and not only will you not see incandescent lights, you won't see fluorescent lights either! Computer systems are also becoming more powerful while using less power and generating less heat ~ and with flexible circuits and color e-ink (or equivalent) systems, hold the promise of eliminating the need for paint on interior wall surfaces.
If you can get rid of paint you eliminate a vast number of distillates and evaporates. Low power display processes reduce power requirements.
It is entirely possible that we've already passed "peak electrical demand"!
Things that you go “Hmmmmmn.”
(Never mind the inconvenient truth that CAGW isn’t happening. We’ve been cooling since 1998 ... and today’s (last month’s actually) temperature show a whopping, huge, tremendous, awe-uninspiring total of 0.1 degree C warming. Since the baseline 1970’s low point.)
“Fossil fuel” never worked for me. Not enough dead dinos to make that much oil, no matter how many eons. Mother nature cooks up fresh supplies of oil everyday, imho.
“Energy deregulation will be that largest transfer of wealth in history.” ~Warren Buffett
Correctamundo!
Microbes+methane+temp+pressure+time:
Voila! Oil!
The inspiration and motivation to develop new energy sources (or anything else) comes from the promise of future wealth by free market commerce. No breakthrough developed has ever happened because the government protected and restricted access to the status quo.
We will soon see if the Italian crowd have come up with something real in their nickel conversion process too.
This reminds me of an episode of “Politically Incorrect” I saw years ago on ABC. Bill Maher was pushing his usual “the world’s ending and it’s all the evil rightwingers’ fault.” His guest Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller tried patiently to explain to him that we don’t live in a static system, and that he was failing to factor in human ingenuity: that when a problem arises, that isn’t the end of the road because smart people figure out ways to solve it. Maher just sneeringly dismissed him with a wave of his hand, saying something like, “That’s ridiculous!”
But smart people do figure out how to solve nasty problems. That’s why Bill Maher has now been moved from network TV to a low-rated cable channel.
Get ready for a huge increase in enviromentalist propaganda. A decade of no credible measurable increases in world temperatures... despite rising CO2 levels has taken the wind out of their global warming sails. The absolute failure of nearly every wind and solar project, and the absolute absurdity of using farm land to produce crops for methane instead of desperately needed food has demonstrated to the informed public that “green energy projects” are nothing but a huge waste of government money and resources. This is creating a terrible crisis for the environmental movement. They will attack “fracking” like it is the worst most dangerous threat to humanity since DDT and the nuclear bomb was invented.
Even my own father, a conservative told me that “fracking” was a terrible threat to the nation’s water supply. I had to tell him that there was no credible evidence that the new technology posed any substantial threat to the environment, especially the water supply. So get ready... the real solution to the worlds energy problems will be attacked with a fury we have never seen before.
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Our economic system is based on growth. When the economy stops growing, it starts dying. This suits the Left just fine. People who aren't living hand to mouth are difficult to control. The purpose of environmentalism is to solve that problem.
Moonbats literally want to reduce us to the lifestyle of medieval serfs.
Gore Exposed
Cheap, plentiful energy is anathema to the ruling class, because it means prosperity to the masses.
That's the last thing they want, messy, smelly human beings building houses and highways on the vast wilderness they wish to inhabit like H. D. Thoreau on Walden Pond.
Just like they made up anthropogenic global warming and morphed it to anthropogenic climate change when their predictions didn't pan out, they'll make up lies about any energy source that actually produces more energy than it consumes.
They love green energy, because it brings about negative productivity.
The less produced, the fewer human beings can be supported.
>>Microbes+methane+temp+pressure+time:
Voila! Oil!<<
Or yogurt.
:)
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