That's just sad. This is the exact same blase' attitude about the practical applications that caused the LAST alternative energy movement to fail. I'm all...
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Wayne
lwaynes_world
May 22, 2009 1:33 am
So, you paint a pretty bleak scenario. Oil is finite. Because it is problematic, your solution is to do nothing! The 1970's oil shortage was contrived. It...
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poitsplace
May 22, 2009 11:15 am
... Indeed...unfortunately that's not WHERE we need the power. It may come as a bit of a shock to you but you'd need conductors a couple feet thick to carry...
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Wayne
lwaynes_world
May 22, 2009 12:34 pm
We need the oil for plastics and other products. What you propose is to burn it up. That just does not make sense! That is no plan. It is suicide. Whether you...
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poitsplace
May 22, 2009 5:00 pm
Actually, we have enough oil in the sands in canada (which they now have a very efficient way to separate) to last the entire world 20 years. We have more...
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Wayne
lwaynes_world
May 22, 2009 7:33 pm
The Canadian government estimates it takes three to five times the energy to produce tar sands as conventional oil. About two tons of tar sands yield one...
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Freddy Hutter
fredhutter
May 22, 2009 7:34 pm
The problem with Bitumen & Kerogen is the flow rate. Yes, there is lots of both, but not enuf to hold oil production in plateau ...
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Mark Koskenmaki
pwrwagn
May 22, 2009 7:43 pm
I have news for you. Supercharged and turbocharged engines are LESS EFFICIENT than non. It's absolutely proven, and there's no reason on earth to even...
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Wayne
lwaynes_world
May 22, 2009 7:45 pm
This is a red letter day, Mark! You and I actually agree on something....
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poitsplace
May 22, 2009 9:42 pm
Actually...there is a reason to suggest that. Most people with 200+ horsepower engines...almost never use that power. That whole time they're underusing that...
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poitsplace
May 22, 2009 9:46 pm
And then there's a newer method they just developed (they never had the need before) that only uses 25% the energy of the oil to extract the oil. It's...
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Mark Koskenmaki
pwrwagn
May 23, 2009 11:58 am
It doesn't matter. They are less efficient at all throttle levels. The only reason turbocharging is used is to generate more horsepower in a smaller space,...
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Wayne
lwaynes_world
May 23, 2009 12:48 pm
Pleas expand on this and give sources....
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poitsplace
May 24, 2009 2:10 am
Ummm, turbochargers that are bypassed use no power at all. Had that REALLY not occurred to you??? What part of "almost never use that power" did you not...
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poitsplace
May 24, 2009 2:29 am
... Wait, you're connected to the internet and you can't be bothered to cut and past "electrophoresis" into wikipedia? I kind of think this is the reason you...
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Wayne
lwaynes_world
May 24, 2009 2:42 am
I see, you can't produce any reliable factual material that supports your ambitious statement........
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voicesogw
May 25, 2009 12:35 am
I am currently working on how global warming is helping to increase diseases out break in Africa . I would like to have more information as per the adaptation...
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poitsplace
May 25, 2009 3:34 am
I never considered it an "ambitious statement" to suggest using something on a larger scale or in another set of conditions that were remarkably similar. If I...
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ferrand
ferrandst
May 25, 2009 4:40 pm
Stanley, The Carbon Dioxide which is helping to cause Global Warming may be affecting diseases, see www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A11109133 ...
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Mark Koskenmaki
pwrwagn
May 26, 2009 11:51 am
you don't understand the problem, guy. Turbocharged gasoline engines are lower compression ratios. This means they're less efficient, all over. The most...
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poitsplace
May 27, 2009 6:09 pm
Grrr, site ate my last post so I'll just oversimplify it down to... Ok...
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Wayne
lwaynes_world
May 27, 2009 8:03 pm
What about geothermal generation of electricity? It is available both day and night and widely available primarily in the western US. So there is no problem...
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poitsplace
May 27, 2009 10:21 pm
I think it's a great idea. It really is of course "too good to be true" that it's so cheap. It's a lot more like drilling for oil than you'd think....
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Wayne
lwaynes_world
May 27, 2009 10:55 pm
Of course there is a whole lot more geo-energy than there is oil energy and the pollution including CO2 is much lower. We need to develop alternate energies to...
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poitsplace
May 29, 2009 4:17 am
... We should use all we can find...just be careful to not mix up the amount of energy with the amount of energy we can actually harness. Remember, almost all...
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Wayne
lwaynes_world
May 29, 2009 6:28 pm
Interesting graphic animation for those who think that Arctic ice has increased over the past ten years. ...
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poitsplace
May 29, 2009 10:25 pm
... increased over the past ten years. ... Well I don't know who the heck would say artic ice has increased over the past 10 years. ANTARCTIC ice has. I...
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poitsplace
May 29, 2009 11:00 pm
I had this for someone else and I thought I'd point out how out of place some of these suggested temperature increases look when tacked on to the previous...
Yeah, woopee, more alarmist nonsense for the uneducated masses. Last time I looked, the main cause of all of these problems was A LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURE! The...
