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...The Greatest Weakness of America!
I'm stating the obvious when I claim it's our dependence on fossil fuels. But what I think few understand is just how quickly the world oil market could collapse. Do you realize that OPEC bases its annual oil production quotas partially on the estimated reserves a member country claims? Which means a country can pump more oil each year if it claims larger reserves in the ground. It's been documented that many OPEC countries have over estimated their reserves by as much as 50%. How much do we trust the stated oil reserves of countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nigeria, Russia Kuwait and Venezuela? "How Credible Are Proven Oil Reserves:" The Case of Iran, Russia & Canada "Among the principal beneficiaries of these revisions are Iran whose proven reserves have gone up from 89.7 bb at the beginning of 2003 to130.7 bb in 2004 and then to 132.5 bb in 2005 and Russia from 48.6 bb to 69.1 bb and then to 72.3 bb at a time when no major discoveries were reported in these two countries in 2003 or 2004." http://www.odac-info.org/assessments...5thNAEConf.pdf MIDDLE EAST OIL - REALITY AND ILLUSION "In 1985, Kuwait added 50% to its reported reserves although nothing particular had changed in the oilfield. Three years later, Venezuela doubled its reserves by the inclusion of long-known but not previously counted, heavy oil reserves. That forced Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Iran and Iraq to retaliate with massive increases to protect their OPEC quota, which was based partly on reserves. Saudi Arabia followed in 1990 increasing its reported reserves from 170 Gb to 257.5 Gb, an estimate that has barely changed since, despite intervening production of some 37 Gb." http://www.peakoil.net/Publications/...D_ILLUSION.pdf .................................................. . It's easy to assume that when oil finally does begin running out, that the decline will be steady and predictable over a number of years. But think about that for a moment. Has anyone ever been in a city the moment it becomes clear a hurricane is going to hit? That city goes from a normally functioning well supplied operation to being completely wiped out of all cash, gas and food in .....THREE HOURS FLAT! I've seen such panic situations with my own eyes several times, as i live in Miami. Trust me when I say when the day comes the world realizes the oil party is over, it'll all come crashing down ....overnight. Not a steady decline, but in a panic. One day they'll be some news event, some story that gets everyones attention. Such as how Hurricane Katrina has galvanized the global warming movement. And everything will change overnight. Maybe another story like this will come out, except about the Saudi oil fields......... "Mexico's Cantarell oil field, the world's second largest producer, is beginning to dry up" http://www.scdigest.com/assets/newsV...&ctype=content Or maybe a story like this........... "It was an incredible revelation last week that the second largest oil field in the world is exhausted and past its peak output. Yet that is what the Kuwait Oil Company revealed about its Burgan field." http://www.ameinfo.com/71519.html Countries will start hording instead of pumping when that Katrina-like event occurs. Everyone /at once/ will keep what they have for themselves and bunker down. If America is not ready for that day, our country could become a ghost of its former self in the blink of an eye. Did you know George Bush cancelled an ambitious NASA Space Solar Power program, which could ultimately lead to the US becoming the energy "King" of the future? And replaced that program with another moon shot? More ...moon rocks... instead of ensuring our future? During the next Presidential election, we need to demand the wasteful return to the moon be 'aborted' and this program below be ....reinstated. This is the path to replacing fossil fuels for the long term. It's the path to a bright future for America. It's the path to end global warming. And an end to a future where Islam dominates us all. Let's make America the next energy "Saudi Arabia". Executive Summary NASA'S SPACE SOLAR POWER EXPLORATORY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY (SERT) PROGRAM http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309075971 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space Solar Power (SSP) Exploratory Research and Technology (SERT) program was charged to develop technologies needed to provide cost-competitive ground baseload electrical power from space-based solar energy converters. The SERT program was established in FY 1999 and continued through FY 2000 by U.S. congressional appropriation. An additional appropriation was also funded for SSP Research and Technology (SSP R&T) for FY 2001. Decisions on internal NASA budget allocations for FY 2002 were pending during review and publication of this report. The program has identified several flight demonstration milestones in order to test technologies and concepts in the near-term and mid-term in preparation for transferring the technologies to industry for final full-scale development and implementation. A more specific treatment of these flight demonstrations and key program milestones can be found in Section 2-1. The program has identified an investment portfolio for a future SSP program with planned resource allocation through 2016 (see Table D-l). Technology flight demonstrations (referred to by NASA as MSCs) are scheduled in FY 2006-2007, FY 2011-2012, and FY 2016. From 2002 to 2006 the funding request for SSP was respectively $88million $124million $211million $282million $312million .................................................. . "Chairman Rohrabacher opened the hearing by stating that space solar power (SSP) is "precisely what NASA as an agency should be all about" - He stated that NASA's lack of preparation to follow up on SSP, a concept that, he claimed, "cries out for further research," may be because NASA wants to focus on human space flight, "in hopes of reclaiming the glory days of Apollo." He wants NASA to take the next measured step in research, and believes that this visionary approach would reap huge public support for NASA ." Hearing on "Space Solar Power: A Fresh Look" before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the House Committee on Science, October 24, 1997. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/legaff/solar.html Space Solar Power http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_solar_power Space Solar Power Concept And Technology Maturation Program Nasa Glenn Research Center http://space-power.grc.nasa.gov/ppo/publications/sctm/ Pentagon Considering Study on Space-Based Solar Power Thursday, April 12, 2007 By Jeremy Singer http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,265380,00.html MIT Space Solar Power Workshop http://web.mit.edu/space_solar_power/ s |
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...The Greatest Weakness of America!
"Jonathan" wrote I'm stating the obvious when I claim it's our dependence on fossil fuels. [snip] There is no more Peak Oil. http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,490207,00.html (maybe this is somewhere in english too, didn't look for it) Off shore of South East Asia more and more natural gas and oil is discovered. The lucky one is Vietnam, where the fields stretch like a carpet from north to south, among them a supergiant field like in Saudi Arabia. .... From probe boreholes at Sihanoukville Chevron found oil with 4 of 5 boreholes. Chevron calls this significant. They estimate 500 billion barrels of oil within 6 fields, and that's only the beginning. Royal Dutch Shell is drilling off shore from Sabah, wherefrom starting to convey 350 billion barrels at coming autumn. Vietnam opens up 3 new blocks of about 700 billion barrels in the Cuu-Long bassin and JapanVietnam Pertoleum discovers another field with 37 billion barrels. The supergiant field however is located in the Song-Hong bassin with an estimated volume of 5 trillion barrels. |
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On Jul 17, 3:20 am, "Peter Muehlbauer"
wrote: "Jonathan" wrote I'm stating the obvious when I claim it's our dependence on fossil fuels. [snip] There is no more Peak Oil. http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,490207,00.html (maybe this is somewhere in english too, didn't look for it) Off shore of South East Asia more and more natural gas and oil is discovered. The lucky one is Vietnam, where the fields stretch like a carpet from north to south, among them a supergiant field like in Saudi Arabia. ... From probe boreholes at Sihanoukville Chevron found oil with 4 of 5 boreholes. Chevron calls this significant. They estimate 500 billion barrels of oil within 6 fields, and that's only the beginning. Royal Dutch Shell is drilling off shore from Sabah, wherefrom starting to convey 350 billion barrels at coming autumn. Vietnam opens up 3 new blocks of about 700 billion barrels in the Cuu-Long bassin and JapanVietnam Pertoleum discovers another field with 37 billion barrels. The supergiant field however is located in the Song-Hong bassin with an estimated volume of 5 trillion barrels. and ordinary field weeds are better sources of ethanol than corn. |
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"Jack Linthicum" wrote On Jul 17, 3:20 am, "Peter Muehlbauer" wrote: "Jonathan" wrote I'm stating the obvious when I claim it's our dependence on fossil fuels. [snip] There is no more Peak Oil. http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,490207,00.html (maybe this is somewhere in english too, didn't look for it) Off shore of South East Asia more and more natural gas and oil is discovered. The lucky one is Vietnam, where the fields stretch like a carpet from north to south, among them a supergiant field like in Saudi Arabia. ... From probe boreholes at Sihanoukville Chevron found oil with 4 of 5 boreholes. Chevron calls this significant. They estimate 500 billion barrels of oil within 6 fields, and that's only the beginning. Royal Dutch Shell is drilling off shore from Sabah, wherefrom starting to convey 350 billion barrels at coming autumn. Vietnam opens up 3 new blocks of about 700 billion barrels in the Cuu-Long bassin and JapanVietnam Pertoleum discovers another field with 37 billion barrels. The supergiant field however is located in the Song-Hong bassin with an estimated volume of 5 trillion barrels. and ordinary field weeds are better sources of ethanol than corn. I see no reason why not burning fossil fuel, instead of burning food. |
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On Jul 17, 7:03 am, "Peter Muehlbauer"
wrote: "Jack Linthicum" wrote On Jul 17, 3:20 am, "Peter Muehlbauer" wrote: "Jonathan" wrote I'm stating the obvious when I claim it's our dependence on fossil fuels. [snip] There is no more Peak Oil. http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,490207,00.html (maybe this is somewhere in english too, didn't look for it) Off shore of South East Asia more and more natural gas and oil is discovered. The lucky one is Vietnam, where the fields stretch like a carpet from north to south, among them a supergiant field like in Saudi Arabia. ... From probe boreholes at Sihanoukville Chevron found oil with 4 of 5 boreholes. Chevron calls this significant. They estimate 500 billion barrels of oil within 6 fields, and that's only the beginning. Royal Dutch Shell is drilling off shore from Sabah, wherefrom starting to convey 350 billion barrels at coming autumn. Vietnam opens up 3 new blocks of about 700 billion barrels in the Cuu-Long bassin and JapanVietnam Pertoleum discovers another field with 37 billion barrels. The supergiant field however is located in the Song-Hong bassin with an estimated volume of 5 trillion barrels. and ordinary field weeds are better sources of ethanol than corn. I see no reason why not burning fossil fuel, instead of burning food. Farm vote, ethanol equals corn farmers at the present moment. Sugar is the thing in Brazil, the U.S. has enough problems with their sugar policy that it is a pitfall. It's the cellulose that makes ethanol. |
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:27:57 -0400, in a place far, far away,
"Jonathan" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: I've seen such panic situations with my own eyes several times, as i live in Miami. Trust me when I say when the day comes the world realizes the oil party is over, it'll all come crashing down ....overnight. Not a steady decline, but in a panic. Nonsense. "Peak oil" is a myth. We have huge reserves in shale and tar sands, which become economically viable at prices below the current ones. |
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...The Greatest Weakness of America!
"Jack Linthicum" wrote On Jul 17, 7:03 am, "Peter Muehlbauer" wrote: "Jack Linthicum" wrote On Jul 17, 3:20 am, "Peter Muehlbauer" wrote: "Jonathan" wrote I'm stating the obvious when I claim it's our dependence on fossil fuels. [snip] There is no more Peak Oil. http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,490207,00.html (maybe this is somewhere in english too, didn't look for it) Off shore of South East Asia more and more natural gas and oil is discovered. The lucky one is Vietnam, where the fields stretch like a carpet from north to south, among them a supergiant field like in Saudi Arabia. ... From probe boreholes at Sihanoukville Chevron found oil with 4 of 5 boreholes. Chevron calls this significant. They estimate 500 billion barrels of oil within 6 fields, and that's only the beginning. Royal Dutch Shell is drilling off shore from Sabah, wherefrom starting to convey 350 billion barrels at coming autumn. Vietnam opens up 3 new blocks of about 700 billion barrels in the Cuu-Long bassin and JapanVietnam Pertoleum discovers another field with 37 billion barrels. The supergiant field however is located in the Song-Hong bassin with an estimated volume of 5 trillion barrels. and ordinary field weeds are better sources of ethanol than corn. I see no reason why not burning fossil fuel, instead of burning food. Farm vote, ethanol equals corn farmers at the present moment. Sugar is the thing in Brazil, the U.S. has enough problems with their sugar policy that it is a pitfall. It's the cellulose that makes ethanol. If it's made from the cellulose, then it is ok. Better than composting that. I know from Paragauy, my future home, that there is added about 10% ethanol to the gasoline, that makes motors run very smoothly and extends the endurance. But even if i.e. Paraguay has very much of sugar cane, it is not enough to replace fossil fuel. Ethanol will always be an additive, but no replacement. I don't know much of the conditions in Brazil, or even Florida, where you live, but without selective cultivation it would not be enough either. |
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"Rand Simberg" wrote On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:27:57 -0400, in a place far, far away, "Jonathan" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: I've seen such panic situations with my own eyes several times, as i live in Miami. Trust me when I say when the day comes the world realizes the oil party is over, it'll all come crashing down ....overnight. Not a steady decline, but in a panic. Nonsense. "Peak oil" is a myth. We have huge reserves in shale and tar sands, which become economically viable at prices below the current ones. Just an hour ago, there was a documentation on german TV about a farmer in Tennesee, who found oil on his land by flike. An oil company then was exploring his land and found lots of oil although there hasn't thought to be oil. They now convey about 4000 barrels a week from there. I think, the earth has still a lot of oil, it has only to be found. |
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The Yids and of their Third Reich of a global domination mindset
really don't care, as otherwise multiple renewable alternatives would have been established as of decades ago. 40 kw/m2 of a tower footprint is not hocus-pocus energy. Sorry about that. - Brad Guth |
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...The Greatest Weakness of America!
On Jul 17, 12:20 am, "Peter Muehlbauer"
wrote: "Jonathan" wrote I'm stating the obvious when I claim it's our dependence on fossil fuels. [snip] There is no more Peak Oil. http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,490207,00.html (maybe this is somewhere in english too, didn't look for it) Off shore of South East Asia more and more natural gas and oil is discovered. The lucky one is Vietnam, where the fields stretch like a carpet from north to south, among them a supergiant field like in Saudi Arabia. ... From probe boreholes at Sihanoukville Chevron found oil with 4 of 5 boreholes. Chevron calls this significant. They estimate 500 billion barrels of oil within 6 fields, and that's only the beginning. Royal Dutch Shell is drilling off shore from Sabah, wherefrom starting to convey 350 billion barrels at coming autumn. Vietnam opens up 3 new blocks of about 700 billion barrels in the Cuu-Long bassin and JapanVietnam Pertoleum discovers another field with 37 billion barrels. The supergiant field however is located in the Song-Hong bassin with an estimated volume of 5 trillion barrels. The Vietnam war was in fact all about the taking of their oil, and nothing else. I kid you not. - Brad Guth |
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