The Deep, Hot Biosphere
by Thomas Gold
foreword by Freeman Dyson
Posted on 12/02/2007 10:44:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv
"We should not just try to import less oil," the former CIA director under former President Clinton told a Miami audience Sunday. "We should destroy oil as a strategic commodity" that allows oil exporting nations to hold monopoly power... Woolsey's wide-ranging speech went from describing how Americans' dollars at the gas pumps made their way to fundamentalist Islamic institutions to illustrating advances in solar energy technology that make it more efficient and affordable... Among his suggestions was California's decision to decouple energy company profits from sales two decades ago, keeping the state's electricity consumption flat while the rest of the states have experienced a 60 percent increase. He also cited Wal-Mart for reducing electricity consumption by 20 percent to 25 percent at its stores, a giant savings considering that 70 percent of the world's electricity is used by buildings other than homes... Woolsey also made a pitch for new battery-powered, flex-fuel cars that could be recharged during off-peak periods of electricity costs... On the malignant side, oil and coal consumption are contributing to global warming, which could accelerate at any point. The U.S. electricity grid and world oil supplies also face threats from terrorists and not just glitches that can now cause massive power outages in the interconnected grid.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
“Lots of lead acid batteries, which guess what? don’t last forever either. We have a long ways to go to invent a more practical and environmentally friendly storage device for that electricity, and those environmental disasters they put under the hood of a prius isn’t the answer either.”
THE most efficient recycling loop in the industrialized world is the one for lead batteries. And I wouldn’t write off the old lead-cycle battery just yet.
http://rfdesign.com/military_defense_electronics/carbon-foam-lead-acid-batteries-0607/
http://rfdesign.com/mag/706RFDEF3.pdf
No one seems to want to mention that we have added 100 million people to ur population since 1970 and will add another 167 million people by 2060. Immigration, legal and illegal, are driving about 75% of this population growth. The idea that we can go from a nation of 200 million in 1970 to a nation of almost half a billion in less than 100 years without impacting on our energy needs is just nonsense. We are going to have to run just to standstill.
The Petroleum System Paradigm and the Biogenic Origin of Oil and Gas
http://www.searchanddiscovery.net/documents/abstracts/2005research_calgary/abstracts/extended/dow/dow.htm
We collected 184 oil samples from 107 fields and all of the productive reservoir rocks in the basin and analyzed them...
...understand where these compositionally different oils came from, we analyzed core samples from all of the organic-rich, non-reservoir rocks in the basin with the same techniques used to study the oils. Each oil group matched to and was closely associated with a different organic-rich interval...
Oil is a global commodity and thus fungible. It really doesn't matter where our imported oil comes from. World demand is growing as countries like China and India become more affluent. And we are adding 57 million people a year to the world's population and will do so at least until 2050. It is like adding another Italy every year to the world's population.
Technology is advancing. it may take only 15 years to find ways to solar or fusion to create limitless hydrogen fuel for all the cars.
1. The amount of oil in Alaska is grossly underestimated.
You say 14 I say 40 years.
2. the Gulf of Mexico.
While I agree on the need to destroy the strategic importance of oil — mostly by removing the US from the world market — without a replacement for the nice, portable energy source it represents, we can’t do that. His ideas on how to accomplish the need are all just partisan shilling. :’)
we have added 100 million people to our population since 1970 and will add another 167 million people by 2060Exactly, and IMHO the number by 2100 will be much higher even than that. The solution advocated by the malthusians is "live simply, so others may simply live", an approach that leads to poverty, darkness, disease, and death. And of course, makes everyone into peasants.
The Deep, Hot Biosphere
by Thomas Gold
foreword by Freeman Dyson
their contributors, check out their politics:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/contributors.shtml
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/index.shtml#bush
It was not written for or by them and not the source of the original publication.
This isn't Malthusian or even Paul Erlich. It is a situation where we actually have control over the number of people entering this country every year. Where does it say that we must allow 1.2 million to come in legally, not to mention the 500,000 to 1 million who enter illegally? The US has the highest rate of population growth in the developed world, i.e., .89% annually, mainly due to immigration, legal and illegal. Demography is destiny.
Great compilation!
Woolsey is right on less dependency on the oil mafia..and that means he should tell his Dem pals to stop hindering that very goal!
My mistake, Dale Alan Pfeiffer is/was the Science Editor of From The Wilderness
Jean Laherrère worked for TOTAL for thirty-seven years in a variety of successively more responsible roles encompassing exploration activities in the Sahara, Australia, Canada and Paris. Since retiring from TOTAL, Mr. Laherrère has consulted worldwide on oil and gas potential and production. He has served on the Society of Petroleum Engineers/World Petroleum Congress ad hoc committee on joint definitions of petroleum resources and the task force on “Perspectives Energie 2010-2020” for the Commissariat Général du Plan.
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/laherrere/
Nonsense!
I guess you weren't around during the OPEC oil embargo.
Less dependence on hostile Middle East oil is a huge
political bargaining chip.
Canada is not a hostile trading partner.
Fungibility can also be applied to the power of states.
Rogue / terrorist states can translate economic power
derived from oil into military power or terrorist activity
to disrupt the global market.
Yes, I was standing in line at the gas stations in DC and NoVA.
Less dependence on hostile Middle East oil is a huge political bargaining chip. Canada is not a hostile trading partner.
You may not understand how the oil business works or how oil is moved around the world. The Middle East is still the world's largest exporter of oil and has the largest proven reserves of exportable oil. We actually sell oil from Alaska to Japan because of transportation costs.
If the supply of Middle East oil is interrupted, the global economy will suffer and the price of oil will go up. Unless we have fixed, long term contracts with Canada, Mexico, Nigeria, and Venezuela, they will begin selling their oil on the world market to the highest bidders. We can't insulate ourselves from a global oil shortage. We will have long lines at the pump.
Fungibility can also be applied to the power of states. Rogue / terrorist states can translate economic power derived from oil into military power or terrorist activity to disrupt the global market
With the exception of Saudi Arabia, no Middle East country has excess capacity. They are pretty much pumping out up to their limit. Iraq can produce more if its production facillities are modernized. With world demand rising, their will be no shortage of customers even if the US didn't get a drop from the Middle East.
In 2006, the Persian Gulf countries (Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) produced about 28 percent of the world's oil, while holding 55 percent (728 billion barrels) of the world's crude oil reserves. In 2006, the Persian Gulf countries combined exported 18.2 million barrels per day (bbl/d) including about 17 million bbl/d via the Straight of Hormuz representing roughly one-fifth of world oil supply.
Sigh... It amazes me how often this lie is told. If you just look at a map, you can see the much greater distance to Japan than the US West Coast Markets.
Map centered on Valdez, Alaska. Export Terminal for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
When first built the pipeline oil could not be exported; that was part of the deal to get the pipeline approved through congress. The ban against exporting Alaskan North Slope was lifted in 1996 yet 100% of Alaskan North Slope oil is kept in America. This has been the case for all but 4 years of the nearly 3 decades of Alaskan oil production. Between 1996-1999 5.5% of North Slope oil was exported to Asian countries. These exports were overwhelmingly supported by the US Congress and by the Clinton Administration to offset an oil glut in California at the time. In June 2000 Alaskan North Slope oil again ceased to be exported, and 100% of Alaskan North Slope production has stayed in America.
You can look at the export history from this area since the ban was lifted.
Exports, US West Coast including Alaska and Hawaii
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/mcrexp51a.htm
Here you can see data from the California Energy Commission. They track the amount of oil brought into California from Alaska.
CALIFORNIA CRUDE OIL PRODUCTION AND IMPORTS
http://www.energy.ca.gov/2006publications/CEC-600-2006-006/CEC-600-2006-006.PDF
Here you can see from the Washington Government that 74% of the oil used in Washington State refineries comes from Alaska.
Washington State, Petroleum FAQs
http://qa.cted.wa.gov/portal/alias__CTED/lang__en/tabID__847/DesktopDefault.aspx
If you just look at a map, you can see
Those who want to build a fence along our border with Mexico — people like me — *don’t* want unfettered illegal immigration; on the other hand, the malthusians are found across the political spectrum, and can easily be talked into the position taken by the Party of Treason, the Party of the Single Party State, and vote in favor of rationing, “carbon taxes”, and other draconian measures, because it pretends to address the issue of a supposedly shrinking pie.
Proof the man is certifiable.
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