Comments on: Why the Bakken Won’t Save Our Bacon, By Steve Andrews and Randy Udall

By: Allyn Aldrich

Allyn Aldrich — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:20:40 +0000

We need to use ‘all’ the energy sources we have, but must be realistic. Electricity is not a ‘natural’ energy source, it is the produce of one, like coal oil, gas, solar,hydro etc. Coal is our largest source of energy and the most malinged, oil the next, then natural gas, all fossil fules. Solar, wind, and hydro only account for around 6% of our energy needs while nuclar is several times this much, but also contriverseal.

We need to obtain much more of our energy needs domestically, and this means more coal and oil, or just keeping on funding our avoud enemies while going deaper in debt (we use arab oil and just go deaper in debt, we owe our sole to the arab cartel)

By: nonplused

nonplused — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:03:06 +0000

Ok, what about shale gas?

By: Ronny

Ronny — Sat, 01 May 2010 22:28:36 +0000

It should be obvious to everyone except the most diehard believers that the oil age is coming to a close. Our company can take old oil wells and convert them to produce clean renewable hydrogen by injecting wastewater or seawater and using the hot water or steam to produce hydrogen via a new patented technology called RET. A major presentation of this technology will be given in Portland, Maine on May 20th to an invited group of government, business and investor leaders.

By: Scott Benson

Scott Benson — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:54:30 +0000

The happy feelings about our country’s increased oil production should obviously be tempered when it come to the Bakken. The other “new” oil the article above mentions is deepwater Gulf of Mexico. One of the oil drum guys “westexas” mentioned that the water cut (the percentage of water in the oil) for the Thunderhorse drilling rig in the gulf is increasing FAST. We may have even less oil being produced in the U.S. than everyone is expecting.

By: Don Hirschberg

Don Hirschberg — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:21:30 +0000

Bill Simpson, In India alone there are >0.3 billion with no electric service - not even for lighting. And the other approx. 1.0 billion Indians have quite inadequate servic. We hear much hype about green energy in India but the fact is that they depend overwhelmingly on coal, and are building new coal burning power plants like crazy.

It is an interesting coincidence that the number of Indians without electric service is equal or larger than total world population of only about a thousand years ago, i.e. pre fossil fuels.

By: Bill Simpson in Slidell

Bill Simpson in Slidell — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:22:53 +0000

Those Texas and Alaska down slopes are scary. The world curve will look like that. It makes me glad we don’t need oil to generate electricity. There is no civilization without electricity anymore, unless you are living in the bush somewhere. In large cities, forget about it.