Redrum, you and I agree on many things. From many of your posts, I think our biggest difference is you feel there are some massive conspiracies that are behind all of this, and I feel they come about due to not understanding the world around us, mixed with extreme greed.
We both believe that the free market system is the best that has been invented, for raising more people above poverty than any other system.
I liked the video, they are my sentiments as well.
Another thing on cheap energy. Remember the scare that we have heard since the '70s that we will soon reach the magical point in oil production where the amount of production will begin to slow as oil reserves are used up (peak production)?
About 5 years ago, I was on a business trip in Houston working with a well completions engineer at Chevron. We were working on developing software that would allow them to better prepare well completions to have the best return possible on the amount of oil being taken from reservoirs.
I don't remember what started on specific conversation, but I remember remarking that we needed to find better energy resources because "everyone knows" that the amount of oil available is finite and we would be looking at serious problems if we never came up with a better, cheaper source. I asked him how long he thought we had.
He chuckled and told me that conventional wisdom ain't all that wise. He referenced a Russian study of some years ago that was showing that some oilfields were replenishing themselves. There have also been studies (see first link below) based in the US that show the same thing.
http://www.rense.com/general63/refil.htm
http://politicalvelcraft.org/2010/1...abiotic-oil-replenishment-from-earths-mantle/
While we are wasting our time worrying about wind power and solar collectors that can't possibly maintain our energy requirements because everyone's terrified of a global warming that doesn't exist, we are watching some of our reservoirs refilling.
As the second article states - Russia is going after new oilfields in the Arctic while we sit on our asses and fret about finding new power sources, before their time, trying to force a market for something that isn't ready yet and isn't needed to keep the planet from dying.
Even if abiotic oil generation in the Earth's mantel isn't the reason for some of these fields replenishing, there are more reserves than ever before thought. A decade ago reserves were known to be about 890 million barrels. Today there are 1.1 trillion known reserves. It is estimated that may end up being as high as 3 trillion.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/02/17/337289/index.htm
We both believe that the free market system is the best that has been invented, for raising more people above poverty than any other system.
I liked the video, they are my sentiments as well.
Another thing on cheap energy. Remember the scare that we have heard since the '70s that we will soon reach the magical point in oil production where the amount of production will begin to slow as oil reserves are used up (peak production)?
About 5 years ago, I was on a business trip in Houston working with a well completions engineer at Chevron. We were working on developing software that would allow them to better prepare well completions to have the best return possible on the amount of oil being taken from reservoirs.
I don't remember what started on specific conversation, but I remember remarking that we needed to find better energy resources because "everyone knows" that the amount of oil available is finite and we would be looking at serious problems if we never came up with a better, cheaper source. I asked him how long he thought we had.
He chuckled and told me that conventional wisdom ain't all that wise. He referenced a Russian study of some years ago that was showing that some oilfields were replenishing themselves. There have also been studies (see first link below) based in the US that show the same thing.
http://www.rense.com/general63/refil.htm
http://politicalvelcraft.org/2010/1...abiotic-oil-replenishment-from-earths-mantle/
While we are wasting our time worrying about wind power and solar collectors that can't possibly maintain our energy requirements because everyone's terrified of a global warming that doesn't exist, we are watching some of our reservoirs refilling.
As the second article states - Russia is going after new oilfields in the Arctic while we sit on our asses and fret about finding new power sources, before their time, trying to force a market for something that isn't ready yet and isn't needed to keep the planet from dying.
Even if abiotic oil generation in the Earth's mantel isn't the reason for some of these fields replenishing, there are more reserves than ever before thought. A decade ago reserves were known to be about 890 million barrels. Today there are 1.1 trillion known reserves. It is estimated that may end up being as high as 3 trillion.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/02/17/337289/index.htm
