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Re: US is still an energy pig.... Not really, we've made very significant progress, and there's no need to murder Thomas, to save the planet.....
Author: BOB2
Date: 08-14-2019 - 10:33
I got to meet T Boone Pickens several times in my career, and he was working on getting a lot of wind power form the US "wind patch". He was also a big supporter of cleaner and more efficient natural gas transportation, especially for heavy duty vehicles, like trucks.
So when we integrate the "wind patch" (eastern New Mexico, West Texas, northwest OK, west Kansas, Southeastern Colorado, into the national power grid, (as is happening now, because it is "cheaper" to produce). This area overlaps some of the Permian formation, which is why you see a lot of oil wells next to windmills here....
Given the overlap of those two areas, we should also take that opportunity to improve the efficiency and reduce the natural gas component of those ghg emissions, of those Permian basin fracking operations, by storing and burning off that excess natural gas, in "peaker" electrical generation plants, so we can still get the maximum energy use put of it, and use some of our advance in carbon capture technologies, to re-sequester the CO2, in deep salt formations.
Quit falling for nonsense arguments though, and the sophistry and hysteria being peddled by the extreme fringes on the left or the right. I see some of the nonsense from the pseudo environmentalist wannabee's about ending all fossil fuel use, for transportation. It is going up as a "percentage" of CA's CO2 emissions inventory, only because conservations has cut electrical demand in CA, and we have much more abundant sources of clean electricity.
So transportation, in general, is a lower priority, and less cost effective to convert (although EV's and hybrids have and can help to reduce significantly, even our on-road CO2 inventory) for the near term CO2 emission reductions we need on a "global" basis (not just in CA or the US), when compared to the massive scale of CO2 emission reductions from converting the world's remaining coal fired electrical generation to, to much cheaper and much cleaner natural gas, or even to now much cheaper modern wind turbine power.
There's no need to murder poor Thomas, though... in order to save our planet.
So when we integrate the "wind patch" (eastern New Mexico, West Texas, northwest OK, west Kansas, Southeastern Colorado, into the national power grid, (as is happening now, because it is "cheaper" to produce). This area overlaps some of the Permian formation, which is why you see a lot of oil wells next to windmills here....
Given the overlap of those two areas, we should also take that opportunity to improve the efficiency and reduce the natural gas component of those ghg emissions, of those Permian basin fracking operations, by storing and burning off that excess natural gas, in "peaker" electrical generation plants, so we can still get the maximum energy use put of it, and use some of our advance in carbon capture technologies, to re-sequester the CO2, in deep salt formations.
Quit falling for nonsense arguments though, and the sophistry and hysteria being peddled by the extreme fringes on the left or the right. I see some of the nonsense from the pseudo environmentalist wannabee's about ending all fossil fuel use, for transportation. It is going up as a "percentage" of CA's CO2 emissions inventory, only because conservations has cut electrical demand in CA, and we have much more abundant sources of clean electricity.
So transportation, in general, is a lower priority, and less cost effective to convert (although EV's and hybrids have and can help to reduce significantly, even our on-road CO2 inventory) for the near term CO2 emission reductions we need on a "global" basis (not just in CA or the US), when compared to the massive scale of CO2 emission reductions from converting the world's remaining coal fired electrical generation to, to much cheaper and much cleaner natural gas, or even to now much cheaper modern wind turbine power.
There's no need to murder poor Thomas, though... in order to save our planet.
