New fields for the Hindu cattle to chew on...
- George P. Mitchell - the billionaire who went gangbusters on developing the Barnett formation to extract shale gas - is setting his sights on Pennsylvania for the next big bet.
- Mr. Big B Cole, I was gonna save your dirt on the "biggest gas bag of all" for an upcoming post on nat. gas, but fuck it. The oblivious shouldn't suffer (it will still get included in the post anyway).
- China's government says its strategic oil reserves are full.
- Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and president Obama discussed diplomatic relations; Obama expressed interest in Brazil supplementing Venezuela as an oil source.
- IBM is the king of supercomputers, they're into smart grid technologies. Now water management?
- Could cheap LNG put coal on the ropes (coal is despicable, but we'll see)??
- America sucks on others for oil and it will suck on Asia for batteries: Jap. group plans to reduce prices for lithium-ion batteries by half (oh well... sweaty oh-beastiely boys already depend on Japs for video games and anime anyways).
- Europe's natural resources are relatively paltry and it depends on others for oil and gas: what's wrong with getting solar juice from the Sahara?
- Materials that will scale solar to terawatts (hat tip: Next Big Future).
Over and out for now.
- Brewskie
The biggest gas field of all time, USA. Yeah, tell me about Peak Oil. Waa-waa. T Boone says we can run 18-wheelers on natural gas, and I am beginning to think he has a point (even if greed motivates him).
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loved the latest post about nanocapacitators. Man, what a world lies ahead. Clean air in cities? Amazing!
B Cole,
ReplyDeleteHere's a bit about biomethane from cow manure used to run semis.
T. Boone has a shady past and he's no doubt infected with "Mr. Burns Disease;" but he probably has some good intentions, along with greedy ones, on reducing America's dependency on foreign oil; and about 1/3rd of the oil we use goes into running diesel vehicles and machinery - semi trucks, trains and buses.
Since nat. gas is abundant and will become increasingly so, since it's considerably cleaner, it makes sense to use our abundant resources to cut our oil imports. Would we rather buy oil from despotic regimes, or purchase it from lands with unpardonable environmental sins (i.e., Canada's Alberta)?
His water grab is a concern, though.