https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Net-Zero-Narrative-Is-Riddled-With-Holes.html
Take away the government subsidies, and let us see the real costs.
Take away the government subsidies, and let us see the real costs.
Fusion is a star trek dream they have been pursuing since the dawn of the nuclear age and are still no closer to. The fact that they waste a billion dollars a year in research means nothing. It's a gravy train, like the cure for cancereventually, fusion will fill that hole. Since there is no real pollution from fusion
When calculating for your solar power needs you quickly learn that it is a lot easier to reduce your need for energy than it is to produce more energy. Or at least it’s a lot cheaper. I am pretty conscious of the energy consumption compared to most but everyone could make more cuts if they look at it. Clean Energy production will improve over time but like any technology it takes time to be developed. Oil will still be used for a while yet but I am glad enough have the forsite to begin looking for answers and alternatives.https://mishtalk.com/economics/aoc-...ysten-sinema-with-a-no-climate-no-deal-threat
For the sake of argument, lets say we all decide to go down the New Green Deal path.
One thing I never hear people like AOC talk about is reduction of the "individual" carbon footprint.
Say in order to meet net-zero carbon emissions, we would have to reduce our driving to 20 miles a week.
Our screen time to 1 hour a day (the IT industry consumes as much energy as the airline industry does world wide in a year, and it is getting bigger).
The average home size has to be reduced to 1,300sqft.
The thermostat turned up to 78 degrees in the summer, and 62 degrees in the winter.
Would people like AOC be willing to do it?
The average American?
Or you can just plant some trees. That's how I am carbon NEGATIVE. More carbon is sequestered by the trees, than I produce.https://mishtalk.com/economics/aoc-...ysten-sinema-with-a-no-climate-no-deal-threatSay in order to meet net-zero carbon emissions, we would have to reduce our driving to 20 miles a week.
Our screen time to 1 hour a day (the IT industry consumes as much energy as the airline industry does world wide in a year, and it is getting bigger).
The average home size has to be reduced to 1,300sqft.
The thermostat turned up to 78 degrees in the summer, and 62 degrees in the winter.
When calculating for your solar power needs you quickly learn that it is a lot easier to reduce your need for energy than it is to produce more energy. Or at least it’s a lot cheaper. I am pretty conscious of the energy consumption compared to most but everyone could make more cuts if they look at it. Clean Energy production will improve over time but like any technology it takes time to be developed. Oil will still be used for a while yet but I am glad enough have the forsite to begin looking for answers and alternatives.
if I didnt know better I would be convinced that statement came from some Sheeple.I dont give a crap about any of this carbon footprint BS. Global climate change is real, we all know that. Its been going on since the beginning of time. We also know that Man caused climate change is a scam designed to fool the ignorant and foolish. Oil and gas will be around for a long time. When theres a real need for a replacement someone will come up with a new idea.
I’ve always challenged the anti oil people to name any product that does not use oil in its manufacture, production or transportation. So far nobody has mentioned a single product.
Without oil and gas we'd soon be living in caves and grass huts.
We're already blessed with an abundant energy source. Why fight it? Just try living without oil and gas.
Oil has been use for thousands of years by many people. In many places oil seeped to the surface, and still does today. Eskimos used oil for their lighting when they could find it.if I didnt know better I would be convinced that statement came from some Sheeple.
we lived for centuries without oil and gas they havent been around for that long, I can remember a time before we had all this plastic junk and the world was a much tidier and cleaner place, so not everything modern is that wonderful.
but what all this oil and gas and plastics has done is to make the world a much more crowded place and that is a big problem, no doubt climate change will sort that out for us, mother nature will come back and bite us in the arse for being so contemptuous thats for sure.
I have lived without oil and gas, its no big deal, and I wasnt living in a cave or a grass hut, incidentally Ancient Britons lived in round houses made from natural materials found locally to where they were living and they were strong and substancial.
I don't worry what other people do. I do my part, it isn't always easy, and I take advantage of others unwillingness to lessen in order to lessen my footprint. I'm not perfect. I do believe that we are damaging our planet, maybe not as horrible as others make it out, maybe worse than can be seen. I do ask others to give it a shot. Big change is hard and someone will always suffer. Just ask anyone having the early Europeans paying them a visit.
I dont give a crap about any of this carbon footprint BS. Global climate change is real, we all know that. Its been going on since the beginning of time. We also know that Man caused climate change is a scam designed to fool the ignorant and foolish. Oil and gas will be around for a long time. When theres a real need for a replacement someone will come up with a new idea.
I’ve always challenged the anti oil people to name any product that does not use oil in its manufacture, production or transportation. So far nobody has mentioned a single product.
Without oil and gas we'd soon be living in caves and grass huts.
I probably have a much smaller carbon footprint than most have, not out of some hippy or socialist pipe dream, but because of the way we choose to live and necessity. Solar provides 100% percent of our electrical needs, we have a lot of timber, which is supposed to soak up carbon or something silly.
We're already blessed with an abundant energy source. Why fight it? Just try living without oil and gas.
I know exactly how long it takes to get a well in, how much it costs to produce a barrel of oil, and how much probable and proven oil reserves we have left. And its measured in the hundreds of years, and longer. Fracking was a great technological advance, directional drilling was another great advancement in producing oil and gas. More advances are constantly being worked on.The problem is, the low hanging fruit i.e. the easy to get out of the ground oil is becoming less and less. Fracking and shale proves that. When all the easy to get out of the ground stuff is gone, conventional oil, then we have to resort to unconventional oil.
You know perfectly well how long it takes to bring a oil rig online from discovery. And a deep sea platform. And a shale rig, and all the inputs that go into it, the exponential decrease of a shale well y-o-y.
And thats just in the US! Worldwide there is many times that amount. With more discoverys being found all the time.In 2009, the proved oil reserves of the US was 20.7 trillion barrels.
In 2019 it was 44.2 trillion.
US Energy Information Administration:
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=RCRR01NUS_1&f=A
proven oil reserves we have left. And its measured in the hundreds of years, and longer. Of course the Leftist media doesn't want this information to get out, and the ignorant masses all want a magic wand approach to fix all the perceived problems of the world. Many people it seems today want to live in a science fiction drama world where we're running out of resources and the sky is falling. When it comes to oil and gas, that's bullshyt.
Its actually closer to a couple thousand years of known reserves. And there's a lot of thought that oil is still being formed to this day. I kind of agree with you that oil could be depleted some day, but not for dozens of generations. I dont think we have to worry about it for a long, long time. In the mean time, why not enjoy the life that oil and gas provides for us all?I'm far from leftist and hundreds of years sounds like a long time. But it really isn't considering how long it took for ancient shallow oceans to turn into oil. Oil is a finite resource so hopefully mankind will figure out a alternative by then. But that's simply kicking the can down the road. "They" already know how to produce free energy, but they haven't figured out how to transition to it and remain rich. Like the song says, "money, so they say, is the root of all evil today".
Where did you get that oil is a finite resource? Its a plentiful, renewable resource. It keeps getting renewed. Where has oil been depleted?
I got my information by working in the oil industry up to the level of executive vice president. I worked in oil fields throughout the US and several overseas fields.That's what I was taught in school. How are you so certain "Its a plentiful, renewable resource. It keeps getting renewed"?
There have been scandals over the years from companies overstating reserves to make them look richer and more important than they are. Years ago In Kuwait somebody leaked a secret government study that said Kuwait’s reserves were less than half what they had been saying. The government made the whole issue even more secret and refused to answer further questions about the report.
Its a guess how much oil exists under our feet but IMO, it's common sense. It took millions of years for ancient sea beds to turn into oil. Yeah, I guess our present day sea beds will eventually turn to oil, in millions of years.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/...ter-than-predicted-wall-street-journal-finds/
I got my information by working in the oil industry up to the level of executive vice president. I worked in oil fields throughout the US and several overseas fields.
You can believe the liberal BS from school, NPR or the BBC if you want. I know the real inside story.
That's what I was taught in school. How are you so certain "Its a plentiful, renewable resource. It keeps getting renewed"?
There have been scandals over the years from companies overstating reserves to make them look richer and more important than they are. Years ago In Kuwait somebody leaked a secret government study that said Kuwait’s reserves were less than half what they had been saying. The government made the whole issue even more secret and refused to answer further questions about the report.
Its a guess how much oil exists under our feet but IMO, it's common sense. It took millions of years for ancient sea beds to turn into oil. Yeah, I guess our present day sea beds will eventually turn to oil, in millions of years.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/...ter-than-predicted-wall-street-journal-finds/
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/12/21/texas-abandoned-oil-wells-seen-ticking-time-bombs-/
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03...il-dries-up-natives-wallow-in-abject-poverty/
https://www.sudanspost.com/oil-wells-dry-up-as-depletion-hit-south-sudan-govt/
Of course nobody knows exactly whats under ground. But we have a pretty good idea of what is in the discovered and known reserves. Its called real science and geology, not the marxist global warming garbage that only brainless fools follow. Believe what you want. Don't matter to me.What else would expect a executive vice president say? lol
No one really knows how much oil is below us, unless you still have those X-ray glasses we ordered from comic books..
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