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Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:12 am Post subject: |
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| keane wrote: |
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| I don't understand what natural gas is not used for fuel more. It's cleaner, it's abundant, it's found in stable countries. I was surprised to hear Boone Pickens say he has been talking about it for 15 years. |
Also headed for a peak. Later than oil, but fairly soon. I'd think of it as a transition fuel, not an answer. All fossil fuels can serve as no more than transition fuels in the long run. Best to plan with that in mind since they will all run out, don't you think? |
Then why did an analyst recently say (saw it on CNBC) that there is enough nat gas in the U.S. for the next 100 years but due to government regulation, companies can't drill for it? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Our current crop energy sources are the low hanging fruit. Nature has kindly taken millions of years of storing the sun's energy in the form of oil, gas, and coal. They've also been remarkably easy to get at. Plants certainly lock up the sun's energy but not as much and not as in concentrated form. It takes a lot of energy to grown, fertilize, and harvest corn fields, for example. If you're using a waste product of a mature industry, something you're creating anyway because people will pay for the product, then you're way ahead of the game. If you can take what was grown and gathered along side the parts you sell and sell that, great. |
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