Texas university has eureka moment for coal-to-gas

www.globalpetroleumclub.com ^ | 03-19-2010 | Staff

[Dusty Road]

They very from well to well, about half are still flowing or on plunger lifts which work off the gas generated from the well. The other half are run with pumpjacks and either gas engines or electric motors. The latter is the most expensive which run about 6 to 8 dollars per barrel depending on depth load and the amount of water that needs to be removed. But we’re lucky in the NG produced more than covers those costs. Hauling waste water and having to service them are the major costs.

[Fresh Wind]

That’s why they’re journalists.................can’t do math, can’t do science, can’t do sports.................

Can't do facts.

[MSF BU]

Time will tell; let’s hope this is more credible than the whole ‘cold fusion’ thing.

[November 2010]

Thanks. Long way to go for the University then? Do they have to get to $8 a barrel you think before it’s profitable?

[Red Badger]

Too Many People
by Paul McCartney

Too Many People Going Underground
Too Many Reaching For A Piece Of Cake
Too Many People Pulled And Pushed Around
Too Many Waiting For That Lucky Break
That Was Your First Mistake
You Took Your Lucky Break And Broke It In Two
Now What Can Be Done For You
You Broke It In Two

Too Many People Sharing Party Lines
Too Many People Never Sleeping Late
Too Many People Paying Parking Fines
Too Many Hungry People Losing Weight

That Was Your First Mistake
You Took Your Lucky Break And Broke It In Two
Now What Can Be Done For You
You Broke It In Two

Too Many People Preaching Practices
Don’t Let Them Tell You What You Wanna Be
Too Many People Holding Back, This Is
Crazy And Maybe It’s Not Like Me

That Was Your Last Mistake
I Find My Love Awake And Waiting To Be
Now What Can Be Done For You
She’s Waiting For Me

[posterchild]

The article gets even more confusing towards the end when it talks about CO2. Are they talking about making fuel using CO2 as a base product? As it is typically an end of the line emission in current combustion engines it will require more energy input into the process to create a fuel than the fuel will provide. The article failed to explain about any ‘downhill’ energy releasing reaction.

Analogously the electrolysis process creates a fuel of hydrogen after energy input. This hydrogen will recombine with the oxygen it was separated from and release energy in the process. Water is at it’s lowest (for practical purposes) energy state. Water does not readily disassociate into H and O and release energy in the process.

[PATRIOT1876]

Of course, the EPA and the rest of the Communist “greenies” will be working overtime to outlaw this great breakthrough!

[Thermalseeker]

....starting with telling the Saudi’s to kiss our collective asses.

Yeah, and we're no longer going to protect the Kingdom from the other bad players they've been supporting in the ME, either.....man, to be a fly on the wall in the House of Saud if that ever happens......

[GonzoGOP]

Sorry Willie, technology, engineering moves on!

The funny thing is that one industry that will benefit almost as much as the coal miners are the railroads. Because now they will be hauling unit trains of coal, which is very profitable, and not train loads of liberals, which loses money. The first railroads in the world were built to haul coal, and the bulk of the money in the railroad industry comes from hauling coal.

[dangerdoc]

2000 pounds of coal converted to 500 pounds of oil I wonder in what form the other 1500 pounds are left?

[Thermalseeker]

This is not new tech.

Around the turn of the 20th century it was called "city gas"...

[Thermalseeker]

I can see November from my house...................

Early voting starts Wednesday in Tennessee. I can hardly contain myself.....

[Psalm 73]

"The United States alone has 30 per cent of the world's reserves...."

I have seen that figure before - but it still blows me away.

[GonzoGOP]

Yeah, and we're no longer going to protect the Kingdom from the other bad players they've been supporting in the ME, either.....man, to be a fly on the wall in the House of Saud if that ever happens......

This would wipe them out. Their two biggest customers US and China, both have vast coal supplies. In England there are places where the coal seems are still right on the surface. Even Germany still has a lot of coal. The question now is do you keep the technology secret, to give the US and advantage over China, or make it public to wipe out the funding for the middle east terrorists. Time to decide who is the bigger threat.

[taildragger]

One of the cornerstones to my energy independence policy.

1.) Use this converted to Diesel for the Military, Trains and Airliners and Biz Jets, these vehicles cannot be converted to natural gas easily.
2.) Convert all Trucks and Off road equipment to natural gas for to keep the cost of producing these good and services low as it is a low cost domestic fuel.
3.) Nuke Plants, 100 of them for starters 2 / State just a benchmark, include R & D for Thorium and "Pebble Bed" reactors.
4.) All these would take the pressure off our refineries, as we still use gasoline as the primary fuel before we go Natural Gas for cars, long term.

My uninformed guess is with these changes within 10 years we would be well on our way to telling the Saudi's to kiss our butts.

[TheBattman]

and none of them eliminated the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Human respiration releases a lot of CO2 as well - I guess we all should stop breathing...

I am so sick of the enviro-nazi freaks taking a crap on every single positive development in providing the fuel needed for us to have a prosperous economy and nation.

I have an idea - if the enviro-global warming-climate change freaks and frauds were really serous about their "carbon footprint", then they would all voluntarily commit suicide. Since they would rather expel lots more hot hair (that contains CO2), then they are hypocrites. Period.

[Red Badger]

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21261/

[achilles2000]

If this is true, the environazis will be staying up late trying to come up with ways to drive the costs up and shut it down....And they can count on funding from the Saudis and the rest of OPEC.....

[Pontiac]

Ping

Well if this works as promised I don't think we need High Speed Rail to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

[kittymyrib]

It’s telling that this exciting innovation in energy production originated at UT in Arlington, a suburb of Dallas. The UT Austin scientists are too busy defending their rabid belief in climate change to come up with anything useful to the USA in dealing with future energy needs. Ironically, this break-through will also provide the clean energy the Austin crowd is always yammering about.