Re: Energy shortage

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Tue Aug 26 2003 - 08:27:07 MDT

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    Wingcat:
    <<Which reminds me of another point.  Synthetic oil is,
    what, less than ten times as expensive as the real
    thing?  Even if all the natural oil were to go
    away...>>

    This may have been true during the 1970's, but this is not currently true. If
    the price of a 55 gallon drum of oil is above 35.00 per barrel; gasoline
    derived from coal becomes economically viable. The sequestering of COČ during
    production of gasoline will make this product more expensive still.

    Better to ask yourself if there is an economically viable means to produce
    transportation fuels using wind, sun, geothermal, biomass, in sufficient
    abundance to eventually, eliminate the need for fossil fuels? If no technology to
    produce these fuels seems at hand, then we need to focus on exploiting fossil
    fuels. We cannot fly to Mars on dreams alone.

    Mitch



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