France has been exporting excess electricity for decades, at night during low demand. Europe is best regarded as a whole instead of focusing on the power output of individual nations.
Nazi Germany reached 144 kb/d (thousand barrels of oil per day) with CTL employing slave labor. Took them about 12 years to reach that level, too; of course the bombing campaign being waged against their country didn't help. Sasol in South Africa produce about 200 kb/d with CTL - notice how this tech is popular with the politically odious? The Sasol 1 plant is the largest CO2 point source in the world. China planned to crank out a few hundred thousand barrels of CTL, but found this would take a few million barrels of water as well, and have scaled back their ambitions drastically. This, from the world's largest coal producer.
RSD hasn't "proved" anything about processing oil shale with their Mahogany project, which was a very small scale pilot. For every 100 kb/d of oil extracted via their Vinegar process you'll need about 1-1.5 GW of electricity, for one thing. Would be better to just power vehicles directly with that juice.
The state lines are there, it's just that the pink coloration for the CRBG has mostly obscured them, particularly the one between Idaho and Oregon, creating the impression that the latter stretches all the way to Wyoming.
Wish the author had included more images.
Eh, exploitation at the Geysers in CA has resulted in increased seismicity. I'd really want to take care before tapping into Yellowstone - eruptions in the past have dumped up to a foot of ash as far away as Iowa. Other problem with generating juice in Yellowstone is that it's quite a ways away from the intended customers, so you'd need a mess of transmission lines to get it where it's going.
Geothermal energy: too dangerous? - SmartPlanet
The author seems to imply that the Columbia River Basalts were generated by the mantle plume, a supposition that isn't in the paper's abstract. Far as I know the jury's still out there. Here's a pdf of a 2007 paper covering the same topic; or, if that won't open for you like it isn't for me at the moment, here's the Google Quick View version.
Star Trek : TOS Blooper Reel # 1. Good yucks, they're not taking themselves seriously at all.
Some other Shat: The Mission: Impossible episode Cocaine. Bill plays a dealer - it's relatively reserved acting, though. I've seen Takei in an MI, and Nimoy was a cast member for a spell.
Thought you meant Rio Hondo when referring to a Shatner western. This was recommended to me years ago as "Star Trek in the Old West." Caught a bit on late night TV last year - pretty solid cheese.
Feh, HBO ran a show of Pollak doing standup 20 years ago where his finale was Star Trek with all the cast members replaced by other celebrities, excepting Shatner as Kirk. Christopher Lloyd as Spock, Robin Williams as Chekov, etc. Pretty funny but old stuff. Think this is it: YouTube - Kevin Pollak does killer Star Trek comedy. He's referring to TJ Hooker in the present tense so this is back in the Bush I era.
Where do you read the comments about 9/11 as it happened? I've a interest in going back over historic items like this. I dug up Slashdot archive news items from around that time, and see nothing specific to the hijackings, a week later there were articles about searching for survivors with GPS etc. I notice 09/11/01 itself is divest of any entries, perhaps they were deleted. Next day it's back to stuff like Simplicity In the Age Of The GUI. Perhaps there was some discussion in stories like these.
NILF. The Oz accent is puzzling, that and the curious garb, but the news honeys do the job. As per Monty Python: "Princes had become rare, indeed, as rare as an Australian virgin."
But where's the 2 minutes hate? Even a piece on the 1983 incident that brought us all to the brink of WWIII is presented in a calm and reasonable tone, with nary a bit of invective. I was hoping for something along the lines of What fits into Russia.
Used to check on this blog from time to time: M3 Report. Ultra grim stuff.
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I grew up in farm country and we made a clear distinction between pickups = personal vehicles, and trucks = larger vehicles of whatever sort. But all you city folk with your highfalutin IP addresses and skim lattes use the latter term for LDVs, your F150 etc. Kinda puzzling.
Apparently it's been done - with icebergs, not monsters like this. Seem to recall that Arthur Clarke proposed this idea in the 70s as a remedy for freshwater shortages.
I'm pretty sure it was used on MST3K - one of those movies with Gamera the flying turtle, perhaps. I'd sometimes snicker at some goofy line in a commercial and then see it promptly wind up on a Best Brains production - for instance, those awful infomercials with a near-to-breakdown Sally Struthers tearfully asking "Would you like to make more money? Sure, we all would!"
It was also always a treat for them to quote lines I hadn't heard in 25 years, like "This is John Cameron Swayze for Timex!"
Dunno how influential MST3k was in this regard when they were just fabricating the Internetz Tubez.
Little of the subsidy cash would go to the big integrated companies. (They and the Oil Congressmen prefer Mr. Ickes' plan for a price boost.) OPA tailored its plan to fit only the small operators of the 200,000 "stripper" wells—the marginal producers who turn out some 15% of all U.S. oil. Squeezed between rising costs and OPA's ceilings many a stripper has been forced to plug his wells and go out of business. And once plugged, the wells are often ruined by salt water seepage.
So even 66 years ago these minor operators were making a substantial contribution to supply, and wanted some assistance to make their operations economical. We could have told them to just take it up the hindquarters of course, but that was way ahead of real consideration of the negative implications of using hydrocarbons.
No other nation has drilled anything like the number of wells the US has: Distribution and Production of Oil & Gas Wells. Wells long given up for dead are reopened when the price rises high enough; some of the oldest in the country were fired up in 2008 when the price was on its uptick. We could repeal subsidies, but then the US would have to import more to make up for lost domestic production, putting us in competition with other nations and driving the price up to the point where the wells would be economical again anyway...likely there's a sweet spot somewhere.
I'm not in favor of subsidizing the majors much, either. But these small fry are worth helping out while we transition away to something better. I'm waiting for the NOCs around the world to follow the US example, if that's possible given their societal constraints. Seems like a surefire way to boost their production and mitigate their declines a titch.
Whoops,/. truncated me there big time.
About 2 million barrels per day of US oil production comes from stripper wells that have 10 barrels per day of output, most of these are from small time operators not the majors, and have been a major factor in keeping the decline in US production low since it peaked at the beginning of the 70s. Tax breaks for these nickel and dime operations help. Also oil companies Big and otherwise pay a heap more taxes than they receive subsidies. Just saying.
US is one of few nations where a person can own mineral rights.
The taxes paid by the FF industry...dwarf the subsidies they receive, however. In the case of the major oil companies it's very dubious that they should still get handouts, but some of the tax breaks have been useful to small operators; about 2 million barrels per day of US oil production comes from stripper wells that have Mineral Rights | Oil & Gas Lease and Royalty Information
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I wonder about the costs of scaling up here, since this process uses electrodes of platinum and silver.
France has been exporting excess electricity for decades, at night during low demand. Europe is best regarded as a whole instead of focusing on the power output of individual nations.
Nazi Germany reached 144 kb/d (thousand barrels of oil per day) with CTL employing slave labor. Took them about 12 years to reach that level, too; of course the bombing campaign being waged against their country didn't help. Sasol in South Africa produce about 200 kb/d with CTL - notice how this tech is popular with the politically odious? The Sasol 1 plant is the largest CO2 point source in the world. China planned to crank out a few hundred thousand barrels of CTL, but found this would take a few million barrels of water as well, and have scaled back their ambitions drastically. This, from the world's largest coal producer. RSD hasn't "proved" anything about processing oil shale with their Mahogany project, which was a very small scale pilot. For every 100 kb/d of oil extracted via their Vinegar process you'll need about 1-1.5 GW of electricity, for one thing. Would be better to just power vehicles directly with that juice.
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The state lines are there, it's just that the pink coloration for the CRBG has mostly obscured them, particularly the one between Idaho and Oregon, creating the impression that the latter stretches all the way to Wyoming. Wish the author had included more images.
Eh, exploitation at the Geysers in CA has resulted in increased seismicity. I'd really want to take care before tapping into Yellowstone - eruptions in the past have dumped up to a foot of ash as far away as Iowa. Other problem with generating juice in Yellowstone is that it's quite a ways away from the intended customers, so you'd need a mess of transmission lines to get it where it's going. Geothermal energy: too dangerous? - SmartPlanet
The author seems to imply that the Columbia River Basalts were generated by the mantle plume, a supposition that isn't in the paper's abstract. Far as I know the jury's still out there. Here's a pdf of a 2007 paper covering the same topic; or, if that won't open for you like it isn't for me at the moment, here's the Google Quick View version.
Star Trek : TOS Blooper Reel # 1. Good yucks, they're not taking themselves seriously at all. Some other Shat: The Mission: Impossible episode Cocaine. Bill plays a dealer - it's relatively reserved acting, though. I've seen Takei in an MI, and Nimoy was a cast member for a spell. Thought you meant Rio Hondo when referring to a Shatner western. This was recommended to me years ago as "Star Trek in the Old West." Caught a bit on late night TV last year - pretty solid cheese.
Feh, HBO ran a show of Pollak doing standup 20 years ago where his finale was Star Trek with all the cast members replaced by other celebrities, excepting Shatner as Kirk. Christopher Lloyd as Spock, Robin Williams as Chekov, etc. Pretty funny but old stuff. Think this is it: YouTube - Kevin Pollak does killer Star Trek comedy. He's referring to TJ Hooker in the present tense so this is back in the Bush I era.
Where do you read the comments about 9/11 as it happened? I've a interest in going back over historic items like this. I dug up Slashdot archive news items from around that time, and see nothing specific to the hijackings, a week later there were articles about searching for survivors with GPS etc. I notice 09/11/01 itself is divest of any entries, perhaps they were deleted. Next day it's back to stuff like Simplicity In the Age Of The GUI. Perhaps there was some discussion in stories like these.
For reals: Mining the ocean floor - CSMonitor.com No one has successfully extracted hydrates, after almost a century of trying. Indeed it looks as if they might find application as a superior method of transporting gas than CNG/LNG: NETL Researchers Develop Way to Rapidly and Continuously Form Synthetic Natural Gas Hydrates
NILF. The Oz accent is puzzling, that and the curious garb, but the news honeys do the job. As per Monty Python: "Princes had become rare, indeed, as rare as an Australian virgin." But where's the 2 minutes hate? Even a piece on the 1983 incident that brought us all to the brink of WWIII is presented in a calm and reasonable tone, with nary a bit of invective. I was hoping for something along the lines of What fits into Russia.
Oregon has more burgs with domain name potential. May I suggest Boring? Or Drain? OK, how about Idiotville?
I grew up in farm country and we made a clear distinction between pickups = personal vehicles, and trucks = larger vehicles of whatever sort. But all you city folk with your highfalutin IP addresses and skim lattes use the latter term for LDVs, your F150 etc. Kinda puzzling.
Apparently it's been done - with icebergs, not monsters like this. Seem to recall that Arthur Clarke proposed this idea in the 70s as a remedy for freshwater shortages.
Or standing on his head. Or he could be a giant.
I'm pretty sure it was used on MST3K - one of those movies with Gamera the flying turtle, perhaps. I'd sometimes snicker at some goofy line in a commercial and then see it promptly wind up on a Best Brains production - for instance, those awful infomercials with a near-to-breakdown Sally Struthers tearfully asking "Would you like to make more money? Sure, we all would!" It was also always a treat for them to quote lines I hadn't heard in 25 years, like "This is John Cameron Swayze for Timex!" Dunno how influential MST3k was in this regard when they were just fabricating the Internetz Tubez.
I think it's the latter, plus a bit of the former. ;) This post has a chart of subsidies of various energy firms. This post with punny headline states the case for marginal producers: Vladimir's Energy Blog - Obama’s Energy Tax Will Even Tax Strippers
TIME had this also LOL (unintended, I assume) headline in 1944: OIL: Subsidy for Strippers. "I call for a fixed deductable on pasties!"
So even 66 years ago these minor operators were making a substantial contribution to supply, and wanted some assistance to make their operations economical. We could have told them to just take it up the hindquarters of course, but that was way ahead of real consideration of the negative implications of using hydrocarbons. No other nation has drilled anything like the number of wells the US has: Distribution and Production of Oil & Gas Wells. Wells long given up for dead are reopened when the price rises high enough; some of the oldest in the country were fired up in 2008 when the price was on its uptick. We could repeal subsidies, but then the US would have to import more to make up for lost domestic production, putting us in competition with other nations and driving the price up to the point where the wells would be economical again anyway...likely there's a sweet spot somewhere. I'm not in favor of subsidizing the majors much, either. But these small fry are worth helping out while we transition away to something better. I'm waiting for the NOCs around the world to follow the US example, if that's possible given their societal constraints. Seems like a surefire way to boost their production and mitigate their declines a titch.
Whoops, /. truncated me there big time.
About 2 million barrels per day of US oil production comes from stripper wells that have 10 barrels per day of output, most of these are from small time operators not the majors, and have been a major factor in keeping the decline in US production low since it peaked at the beginning of the 70s. Tax breaks for these nickel and dime operations help. Also oil companies Big and otherwise pay a heap more taxes than they receive subsidies. Just saying.
US is one of few nations where a person can own mineral rights.
The taxes paid by the FF industry...dwarf the subsidies they receive, however. In the case of the major oil companies it's very dubious that they should still get handouts, but some of the tax breaks have been useful to small operators; about 2 million barrels per day of US oil production comes from stripper wells that have Mineral Rights | Oil & Gas Lease and Royalty Information
Or a bunch of loganberries. Come on, brandish that raspberry.