Posted on 03/31/2022 6:36:29 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said that the benchmark for success on energy for the Biden administration is “really a stable oil market, but really, a move to clean energy.”
Host Chris Hayes asked, “What’s the benchmark for success here? I mean, again, I think that — to go back to the sort of SPR release — the Strategic Petroleum Reserve…there’s always this worry about firing that bullet in the gun and it not working. So, what is your benchmark over these next six months?”
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Progressives, socialists, communists and watermelon greens ... they make everything worse than it has to be just by existing.
There is no such thing as clean energy
Our biggest energy resource is COAL!
We need to re-start mining and using it!
Obama war on coal basically bankrupted this whole industry.
Indeed solar panels have mercury coating don’t hear much about recycling them.
Humans have at our current consumption rates of 96.5 million bbl per day slightly more than 46 years of oil left before every drop of technically recoverable oil is burnt. The USGS has world class geologists that have looked along with our foreign partner’s at 170+ basins on earth there simply is not any basins left to survey,categorize,quantify and determine technically recoverable hydrocarbon systems. There is 1.7 trillion at any price and 1.4 trillion at $50 to $100 not adjusted for inflation. Middle school math tells you that we have 46 years left. The USGS thinks we could possibly find another 500 billion bbls in those 170+ basins technically recoverable but thay says nothing of the economics, transport accessibility nor political hurdles and bits just a best guess should the rocks turn out to have the right properties in the basins under not unexplored territory. 600 billion only adds 13 years at the tail end at any price. This is with 2021 levels of consumption when not if China, India ,and Africa’s huge and growing middle classes demand western levels of consumption that 46 year window falls FAST. It is absolutely imperative that we use the hydrocarbons to boot strap to a solar and nuclear dominated power regime those two are the only energy sources with the necessary quadrillion of BTU potential per year to fuel a world with 8 billion let alone 10+ billion humans. These are mathematical facts politics is irrelevant to these facts. The numbers don’t care if you are red or blue or green. Fortunately our local star dumps an almost unimaginable amount of energy on this planet. 5% of the Sahara could power the entire consumption of humanity 24/7/365 with the proper energy storage and transmission infrastructure. 2% of the desert southwest could do the same for North America in its entirety. Most people cannot fathom the amount of energy dumped per day on the surface of this planet. Well over a million times the needs of humans it has never need about the volume or day and night it always has been about how to store and transport the energy to where it is needed. Humans now have these technologies. Pumped hydro, compressed air storage, thermal storage, geothermal heat batteries to name a few with multiple gigawatt hour capacities. We as a species need to use our endowment of millions of years worth of stored organics in the form of hydrocarbons to move as rapidly as possible to forever energy sources that’s just a fact. Oil will run out in 50 years or less that’s inevitable. I have 20+ years as a petroleum geologist it’s made me a wealthy man. Worked and studied in nearly every major total hydrocarbon systems on this planet the USGS is right we have a ticking clock. Forget global warming the real danger to society collapse is exiting the oil era where humans burnt hundreds of millions of years worth of stored organics in just under two centuries with nothing to replace it. We should save the hydrocarbons for petrochemicals which are vastly more valuable to society than letting a bunch of middle class eaters burn it to the sky.
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