From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sat Jun 14 2003 - 22:07:06 MDT
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> My suspicion is that after wating most of my life for super-duper technical
> advances to occur, such as what the good Dr. has listed, I am suspicious that
> the most likely road ahead is the discovery and application of new natural gas
> (methane for our European friends) resources. Best guess for location is in
> Alaska, and overseas
I have heard, from what I consider to be an authoritative source, that
international natural gas transport is not economic (it would triple
or quadruple prices). Now perhaps that is because one has to build
special vessels with high strength containers to compress it enough or
cryogenic tanks to liquify it but the natural gas transport seems to
be something one only does by pipeline and one only does it on
individual continents. So most of the natural gas consumed in Europe
comes from Russia and most of the natural gas consumed in the U.S. comes
from places in the U.S. (e.g. Texas and Wyoming, perhaps Canada).
Constructing a pipeline from even Alaska to the lower states would
be a significant undertaking and only justified if *major* gas reserves
were discovered in Alaska.
I am willing to stand corrected if someone knows better.
Robert
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