http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/04/energy-department-unconventional-fuels-liquid-coal-shale-eor/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:50:22 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/04/energy-department-unconventional-fuels-liquid-coal-shale-eor/#comment-5998 obewan Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:16:40 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/04/energy-department-unconventional-fuels-liquid-coal-shale-eor/#comment-5998 Carbon sequestration is already a proven technology. At Kinder Morgan in Texas, over 1.5 million cu ft of co2 is captured daily and pumped deep underground for permanent storage. We only have 30 years left on conventional oil. Mexico is our number 2 oil supplier, and they are slated to go bone bare dry out of oil in only 9 more years. When people are starving, and there is world wide economic chaos, people will change their tune and be open to other options in the energy mix. Why are more people not attacking ethanol? It is perhaps worse than liguid coal. It takes more energy to produce than it yields. It takes 1.5 gallons of ethanol to equal 1 gallon of gas. It costs about $4.50 a gallon today. We should spend the tax dollars wasted on ethanol production on carbon sequestration for clean liquid coal production. Carbon sequestration is already a proven technology. At Kinder Morgan in Texas, over 1.5 million cu ft of co2 is captured daily and pumped deep underground for permanent storage. We only have 30 years left on conventional oil. Mexico is our number 2 oil supplier, and they are slated to go bone bare dry out of oil in only 9 more years. When people are starving, and there is world wide economic chaos, people will change their tune and be open to other options in the energy mix. Why are more people not attacking ethanol? It is perhaps worse than liguid coal. It takes more energy to produce than it yields. It takes 1.5 gallons of ethanol to equal 1 gallon of gas. It costs about $4.50 a gallon today. We should spend the tax dollars wasted on ethanol production on carbon sequestration for clean liquid coal production.

]]> http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/04/energy-department-unconventional-fuels-liquid-coal-shale-eor/#comment-5991 Mark Braly Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:40:09 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/04/energy-department-unconventional-fuels-liquid-coal-shale-eor/#comment-5991 What the Defense Dept. needs is super efficient equipment running on really unconventional non-carbon fuels. They need to move away from the burdensome, expensive long tail of carbon fuels. It's not sustainable strategically or financially. Amory Lovins has done some work with them on this. I hope it has some impact. What the Defense Dept. needs is super efficient equipment running on really unconventional non-carbon fuels. They need to move away from the burdensome, expensive long tail of carbon fuels. It’s not sustainable strategically or financially. Amory Lovins has done some work with them on this. I hope it has some impact.

]]> http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/04/energy-department-unconventional-fuels-liquid-coal-shale-eor/#comment-5986 Shannon Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:03:35 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/10/04/energy-department-unconventional-fuels-liquid-coal-shale-eor/#comment-5986 All Bush has to do is wave a magic wand and these technologies suddenly become the clean technologies that will save us from global warming. He is amazing! All Bush has to do is wave a magic wand and these technologies suddenly become the clean technologies that will save us from global warming. He is amazing!

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