"CRUDE" oil, an absolute must see program !!!

They were also slowed down to reduce the losses by the operators as the going lease rate was well below cost......

 

Shale, tar sands, regular deposits, it's all dirty, expensive extraction and

it's going to cost us all more than we can ever imagine. $25US per litre,

$100US per gallon, or $1000US per barrel TOMORROW is the only way we

are going to see real change. Otherwise, it's "death by a million cuts",

we'll be "nickel and dimed" to death. Sad but true. Watch...

Tom

 

well they are doing the're best aren't they
thing is when gas prices hit $5 a gallon in the USA people started to freak and began looking at alternative fuels
granted the wrong alternative fuels but still
it was a start
then a few idiot lenders made one to many bad loans and the banks discovered just how volatile the tiered reserve system can really be
prices came down and no more interest in alternative fuels
at least for a while
but
fuel is expected to get back in the hundred and fifty a barrel range soon enough and when it does
alternative fuels will be back with a vengeance

bio-diesel has no chance
and corn based ethanol was some kind of corporate scam if I ever saw one
celutitic alcohol has a chance and its got some real fans
but basic electricity is bound to have some uses
that ceramic battery is going to change things fast once it hits the market

I think the energy industry will try to pawn off petroleum products as long as they can but in the end a new industry will spring up and they will have to buy into it or be left out of the money

its not the advent of alternative fuels that I think we need be worried about

the oceans currents that have been stable since the British Royal Navy started are keeping track of em are slowing significantly ( indicator of climate change ) climate change appears to be inevitable at this point and most of the researchers I know are keeping an eye on what the arctic sea ice does over the next few years
if we have hit the tipping point in the arctic
then we've hit the tipping point and the show has begun

as I think I mentioned a bit earlier
time to get out the lawn chair
mix another drink
slap a dunce cap on a few of the more stubborn climate change deniers
sit back and enjoy the show

cheers
B

 

<<<bio-diesel has no chance
and corn based ethanol was some kind of corporate scam if I ever saw one
celutitic alcohol has a chance and its got some real fans
but basic electricity is bound to have some uses
that ceramic battery is going to change things fast once it hits the market>>>

I agree.
Bio diesel is good for some very marginal energy recovery applications.
Ethanol/Alcohol has an absolutely appalling ERoEI , worse than useless in my book.

However there is something else which has an ok ERoEI and that is two things;

Methane and Syngas.

In the case of methane we recover all our sewers , farmyard waste and organic household waste and create methane + high grade fertiliser.
Save the petrochemicals for creating synthetic fertilizers and create virtually free energy (the wastes need treatment anyways & right now all the methane produced goes to add to GW gases)

Syngas is created by pyrolyzing organic matter. It produces about eight times more syngas than it takes to complete the pyrolysis, which is incomparably superior ERoEI to ethanol production, and it produces terra preta which is an extremely valuable soil additive. As long as as only a limited amount of crops (+any farm wastes) then this is actually carbon negative.
Thus all crops cuurrently destined for ethanol should immediately be changed to syngas. Also the entire waste management systems need to be reconfigured.

Obviously none of this will even come close to replacing oil but it is clean and sustainable and low cost.
Supplementary energy will be needed via wind solar and tidal/wave, and we must start preparing for vastly reduced energy supplies in the future.

We are presently pretty close i think to planetary malthusian limits, so as we descend the peak oil curve there will be an unavoidable die off.
Sorry guys, but mathematics don't care either way.

We have through the petrol enabled green revolution (should really be called the chemical revolution) a unprecedented surge in population , far in excess of what would otherwise be possible. Not only that , but half a century of modern farming methods has severely depleted the carrying capacity of a large portion of world agricultural lands.
Not a pretty picture..

 

http://financialsense.com/editorials/powers/2009/0909.html for Americans as it relates to USA mostly... and so does http://financialsense.com/editorials/quinn/2009/0909.html but still is a lesson for everyone...

http://financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/laird/2009/0909.html so what is that ******** at the FED and his minions doing? - apart from screwing the good folk of USA in the long term?

 

August may be vacation time for many people, but our reliance on foreign oil didn’t take any time off.

In August alone we imported 355 million barrels of oil and sent $25.2 billion overseas – the most spent on foreign oil out of any month this year.

We are digging ourselves deeper into a hole every day and our economy and security are suffering.

T Boone Pickens

 

As a Canadian I must say thanks, eh.

 

as a native American Im going to suggest you owe me mineral rights and reasonable compensation

 

Got a spare million you can loan to me before it (US$) becomes worthless toilet paper?

 

I will if these fools every pay up

 

Just help yourself...? **** those videos on 9/11 that I put links to in "Global..." particularly on that retired military guy made me think again about the duplicity of the powers that be in USA??? - there is no real external terrorist threat if he is for real... How can those in power be so callous towards their own citizens - jeeees worse than anything in the holocaust - as this had absolutely no motive except selfish greed and **** everyone else - even their mothers? - absolute lowest arseholes of all the evil...

 

I was on the trading floor in London in our Bank watching 9/11
On the floor above me one guy was talking to his wife when the line went dead.
She worked for Cantors in NY...

 

my condolences
I am convinced it was an inside job and that the multiple stories the gov has put out are blatant lies
out of respect for the the thousands of innocent victims
I say keep up the fight until we get some answers that at least seem plausible
vilifying a bunch of Muslims many of whom are later found to be alive and well in Saudi is hardly a viable explanation

however
exactly as P T Barnum predicted
there is a sucker born
every minute
and roughly half the people still believe 19 idiots who failed flight school in single engine trainers
flew one of the most complex airplanes ever built
on what experienced pilots describe as a near impossible trajectory
and without navigational directions from the tower

sure they did

out of respect for those lost
Ild like to know what really happened

B

 

One tribe of traditional landowners in OZ own the place where our uranium mine is in the north.
Only a small tribe about 50 people and they get 10's of millions a year.

 

Uranium

Ya
doesnt happen quite that way round here
here in the land of the free and home of the brave what generally happens is more like what the Navajo are still going through

Ive been to the four corners Navajo-Hopi reservation
its desolate by any measure
the people are dirt poor and many live in rock and mud shacks by the highway trying to sell whatever trinkets they can
mostly native artwork
some cheap and some extraordinarily well done
I always try to find a piece I really like and pay a little more than what they are asking

its hard to describe conditions on this reservation
heartrending would be a good start

in a round about way I'm related to these people
( interesting story in itself but to far off track for this page )

the US gov is trying to get the Navajo to sign away mining rights
again
and are offering to compensate the tribe
again
but they never paid the promised compensation last time around
nor did they clean up the ~1000 lb of radioactive waist for each ~4 lb of uranium ore extracted
they extracted 40 million tons
multiply 40 million tons by 250 and you begin to see the problem

this first piece is from the Navajo Nation News Letter
it was a special letter sent out to all Navajo on Black Mesa were the gov is trying to force the Navajo to accept uranium mining they have clearly stated they dont want
on reservation land
the second piece describes some of the carrots being waved in front of what amounts to the poorest of Indian tribes