Cheap Natural Gas and Its Enemies

The American Thinker ^ | December 21, 2009 | Ed Lasky

[Scanian]

A vast reservoir of clean-burning natural gas could be available at reasonable cost in the coming years, freeing us from some of our dependence on imported energy. Yet there are those who consider such a development a threat.

A small group of billionaires (and mere multimillionaires), formed under the aegis of the Democracy Alliance, has amassed a great deal of political influence in America on behalf of the Democratic Party and Democratic politicians. Among the more important members of this "club" are George Soros and his liberal allies, Herbert and Marion Sandler. The latter two are billionaire beneficiaries of the mortgage bubble who timed their exit from the savings and loan industry before the bubble popped. They went on to fund (with George Soros) the Center for American Progress -- otherwise known as Obama's "idea factory."

[YankeeReb]

Whenever some group is behind the scenes betting on the demise of America you can be sure Soros is involved with it.

[FreeAtlanta]

If the problem of George Soros, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, the Sandlers, and other wicked narcissists had been dealt with 20 years ago, then our world would be a more peaceful and prosperous place.

[alloysteel]

Natural gas (mostly methane) is going to be our “bridge fuel” between the relaxation of reliance on coal-fired power generation and the widespread construction of sufficient number of nuclear powered power generation plants. Natural-gas fired turbine generation plants have the amazing capability of coming online with additional power generation within MINUTES of new demands on the grid, and able to switch off when the power levels are in excess of needs almost as quickly. A most essential part of any “smart grid” and the easiest, quickest answer to slackening power from either wind or solar sources, being touted as “green” energy. Electricity is electricity, it does not care from which source it is generated when you plug into the outlet and flip the switch.

Coal-fired or nuclear plants simply do not have this flexibility, as it may take hours or even days for a steam plant to come up to full capability, and almost as long a trailing period to shut down, and nuclear power plants only operate efficiently when running flat-out, maximum capability, 24/7/365. Great for baseline power demands, but with limited degree of reaction to fluctuating peak power.

And this “carbon dioxide is a pollutant” is a complete hoax.

Carbon dioxide is so bound up in our very life processes, it cannot ever be disentangled. We are a carbon-based life form, for cat’s sake, and plants NEED carbon dioxide to even exist. Carbon dioxide is an essential part of the life cycle of all humanity, the entire animal kingdom, the entire plant kingdom and a great many inorganic reactions that take place in the earth’s crust, oceans, atmosphere, and the interior of the planet, and MUST be preserved at all costs.

Just by the sheer size of the natural generation of carbon dioxide from ongoing life processes, whatever feeble little amount that man produces shrivels to total insignificance.

Know this and know it for a certainty: Carbon dioxide is plant food. Without it, plants wither and die. It is our OBLIGATION to increase carbon dioxide to the degree we are able, to aid our plant life on this planet to grow and extend to its maximum limit.

There is no climate “cure”, because there is no climate “disease”. We rely on carbon-based fuel, and the excess carbon dioxide merely goes into accelerated and extended plant growth. So long as we encourage plant growth at every juncture, by cultivation and land management, the content of carbon dioxide shall never rise above about 0.05% concentration in the atmosphere.

Plants require carbon dioxide to conduct photosynthesis, and greenhouses may enrich their atmospheres with additional CO2 to boost plant growth, since its low present-day atmosphere concentration is just above the “suffocation” level for green plants. A photosynthesis-related drop in carbon dioxide concentration in a greenhouse compartment can kill green plants.

A REAL “green” solution would be to INCREASE our CO2 production all over the world.

[scooby321]

Sandlers killed Wachovia.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

A spreader stoker unit can respond fairly quickly to power and steam demands. PC units are either on or off. neither can spool up as quickly as a gas turbine.