Actually that was a plot in a movie.
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From: "CB Sites"
To: "vortex-l"
Subject: [Vo]:global warming?
Date: Sun, Aug 24, 2014 2:49 PM
I've wondered if the Oil industry isn't just trying to stall other forms of
energy until the inventory of Oil is used up. This is also a race against
mankind's interests in reducing greenhouse gasses. This is a rough estimate,
but there are only about 40 years left of oil. Here are the calculations;
Total world oil reservers is ~1,35 Trillion Barrels. Average daily oil
consumption is estimated at ~85.6 million barrels/day. 1350GB / 0.0856GB/day =
15771 days of oil left. 15771 / 356 days/year = 44 years of oil left. +/- a
couple of years.
In addition, this is the approximate CO2 produced by that oil to be added on to
the 400ppm we already have;
3.15 barrels produces 1.0 tonne of CO2. So in 44 years, we will have dumped
1350GB/3.15 TCo2/B = 428,571,428,571 TonsCO2 (429 GTons CO2).
Every 15 GT CO2 will rise CO2 by 1.0ppm. 50ppm will rise global temps by 1C.
429/15=28.6ppm or ~0.6C gain from now
until oil is used up in 40 years or so.
Similar calculations on coal will yield a 1.30C change in the same time period,
and combined with oil it give 1.58C global average temp change in 40 years.
Coal us in the developing countries has increased exponentially so this really
could be an underestimate. If there is a 2C rise in global average
temperatures occurs by 2050, (in line with these estimates), 4C by 2100 is very
likely and if coal use is accelerating, a 6C change is really likely.
Sadly for mankind, the corporate world is more than happy to do the waiting
game and continue to gather huge profits from stone age polluting technologies
for years to come.
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On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Jones Beene wrote:
From:
Terry Blanton
But, have you considered how much cheaper it will be
to pump oil from the ground using a LENR source? :-)
Actually that is not
sarcasm. It is likely that a prime early use of LENR will to extend the
productive
life of oilfields by a large factor. The USA has a sunk-cost infrastructure of
150,000,000 working vehicles, and the supply system for fuel delivery, so the
economics of using LENR to leverage multi-trillion dollar legacy is a
no-brainer. That is accomplished by bringing up deeper oil, and is actually a
stronger
incentive, economically - than using LENR as an alternative to the ICE… EVEN
when the new technology lowers the value of the deeper oil! …at least for most
consumers
in the near term. Green activists do not want to believe this, but it is
obvious to realists and most economists – nothing is more compelling
economically than extending the lifetime of a sunk cost.
In terms of geology, it appears
now that most if not all of the mega oil fields are sitting on top of deeper
shale which was in fact - the original source of the now depleted lighter oils.
That is the real lesson of the Bakken and fracking.
This is why Texas has and
will continued to lead in oil production – even after most of the shallow wells
are depleted. There could 10 times more oil than realized if and when it can be
pumped up from 2 miles. This will leverage the energy of LENR in a non-green
way, but follow the buck… it will happen and politics will not likely change
that.
Look for Texas oil money to
try to put their man in the White House next go around… even if he is a Canuck J
