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Everything you've heard about fossil fuels may be wrong
Salon ^ | May 31, 2011 | Michael Lind

Posted on 05/31/2011 6:29:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: bigheadfred

>>Yogurt+microbes+temp+time+pressure+Methane+Sports Illustrated+the latest WSJ=silicone breast implants...<<

Yogurt+microbes+temp+time+pressure+Methane+Sports Illustrated+the latest WSJ+silicone breast implants= suborbital launched porta-potty


41 posted on 05/31/2011 8:03:17 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: BwanaNdege

With more natural gas available than ever imagined, and the fragility of the existing power grid, the use of electricity to move cars around is going to be, at most, an historic footnote.


42 posted on 05/31/2011 8:04:54 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: freedumb2003

Yogurt+microbes+temp+time+pressure+Methane+Sports Illustrated+the latest WSJ+silicone breast implants+ suborbital launched porta-potty=Fukushima redux


43 posted on 05/31/2011 8:10:21 PM PDT by bigheadfred (Is it humor, or cynicasm driven by rage?????)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My best friend in High School pointed out that there is one county in Wyoming with about 500 years worth of coal in it.


44 posted on 05/31/2011 8:18:11 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (0bamanomics: Trickle Up Poverty.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They didn’t mention the hundreds of years of oil that California has in knnown reserves.


45 posted on 05/31/2011 8:22:03 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Signalman

About 0.00000001% of oil comes from dinosaurs. Most were consumed by scavengers, like the buzzards of today. The oldest source rock that I am aware of is about 500 million years old. It only takes about 2 million years of burial to begin the process of generation. The rock that BP was trying to tap was sourced by rock that was less than a million years old.


46 posted on 05/31/2011 8:31:25 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Color me stuned this was in Salon.

Cheers,

knewshound


47 posted on 05/31/2011 8:47:15 PM PDT by knews_hound (Credo Quia Absurdium--take nothing seriously unless it is absurd. E. Clampus Vitus)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What if the conventional wisdom about the energy future of America and the world has been completely wrong?

It is.

48 posted on 05/31/2011 8:49:27 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Darwinism is to Genesis as Global Warming is to Revelations.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

An pro-oil article from Michael Lind. I guess he knows which way the political wind is blowing.


49 posted on 05/31/2011 8:59:38 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hi 2DV, I hope you and Mrs. 2DV are doing better. Great post.


50 posted on 05/31/2011 9:02:51 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Darwinism is to Genesis as Global Warming is to Revelations.)
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To: RowdyFFC
'54 chevy, huh? That would have the old "stovebolt" inline 6. these things are darn near bulletproof. I've got a '55 chevy 210 with one. Just got it out of storage the other day, and after 6 months it started first try.

CC

51 posted on 05/31/2011 9:08:52 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Wisdom comes from experience. Experience comes from a lack of wisdom.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We surround them. We must restore the Constitution, though. They can’t rule us if we don’t let them.


52 posted on 05/31/2011 9:09:15 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Darwinism is to Genesis as Global Warming is to Revelations.)
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To: freedumb2003

Too-shay.


53 posted on 05/31/2011 9:13:15 PM PDT by pingman (Durn tootin'; I like Glock shootin'!)
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To: aruanan

What you said, plus wasn’t the disaster at Fukushima caused at least partially by improper storage of the spent fuel rods?


54 posted on 05/31/2011 9:15:27 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Darwinism is to Genesis as Global Warming is to Revelations.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Great find and ping-a-ling.


55 posted on 05/31/2011 9:32:20 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Yes, it is an old kind of turquoise green one, rounded cab and hood, and what I think they call now a ‘step side’. And yes, it cranks right up. We’ve always kept it down inside the barn and the paint is still pretty good, and the sun hasn’t even rotted the old interior. It ran really good on the butane. The only thing, once you switched it over to butane you had to adjust the coke on it a little or it would cough and spit going around the corners. We nicknamed it “Asthma”. We’ve never had to do to much to it. Every once in a while the boys will do a tune up on it, and we’ve always made sure the oil is changed regularly. And once they had to do some re-wiring when some mice bedded up in it. But it’s just simple wiring. Even the old heater still spits out hot air. I’m the sister, so I don’t know much about the kind of engine in it. Our farmhouse and barn are on the side of a small mountain and it still pulls good going up and down, and I don’t remember them ever having to replace the transmission. We always took care of it because it was Dad’s. He died when we were young.


56 posted on 05/31/2011 9:39:24 PM PDT by RowdyFFC
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To: Celtic Conservative; RowdyFFC
54 chevy, huh? That would have the old "stovebolt" inline 6. these things are darn near bulletproof. I've got a '55 chevy 210 with one. Just got it out of storage the other day, and after 6 months it started first try.

Yep, they had the 216 CI and the 235 CI sixes, plus their big one they put in the 3/4 ton, the 275(maybe 271, whatever). They didn't put in a V8 until the '55 model year, the 265 V8.

57 posted on 05/31/2011 11:07:30 PM PDT by calex59
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t know anything about switch grass. I do know a lot about fuels build up in N. CA/Sierras and S. Oregon. I do know that we are trying our damndest to etablish a viable biomass infrastructure and industry here. Not the huge cogen plants, but the smaller units from 12-25 MW with a golden hour radius on sustainable rotating stock of about 40 minutes out. (That radius increases if there are subsidies.) The Forest has to burn the slash piles or control burn the fuels, which releases emissions. Would rather have a sorting yard that winnows out material suitable for value added products and processes the rest as chips or densified pellets or bio-bricks for heat or energy.


58 posted on 06/01/2011 2:11:53 AM PDT by marsh2
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To: calex59
Yeah, the 261 was the bigger motor that was put in 3/4 ton trucks and "utility chassis"(dumptruck,cement mixer, etc). same block patterm, larger displacement. They're popular with people restoring '30s and '40s chevies who want more horsepower but a stock appearance.

CC

59 posted on 06/01/2011 4:52:40 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Wisdom comes from experience. Experience comes from a lack of wisdom.)
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To: freedumb2003

Have you tried heating your house with yogurt? Just asking.


60 posted on 06/01/2011 5:01:33 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ ("If I ever kill you, you'll be awake. You'll be facing me, and you'll be armed. " Mal Reynolds)
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