Got Smoke?

[chengdu4me]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Australian-f...055867.html?x=0

 

This little article states that China is getting 33 million tons of coal per year from Australia beginning in 2014. The contract runs for twenty years. I know this isn't all the coal that China will burn in a year, but still...

 

Let do a little math, shall we....

 

33,000,000 tons x 2,000 pounds/ton = 66,000,000,000 pounds of coal per year

 

66,000,000,000 pounds / 365 days/year = 180,821,917 pounds per day.

 

I was just wondering...how big is your carbon footprint if you burn more than 180,000,000 pounds per day of coal everyday for 20 years?

 

Would this trump Gore's electric bill at his mansion a few years ago?

[Stepbrow]

China is not worried about this. After all they are already the largest producer of greenhouse gasses.

[GDBILL]

8 pounds per day per person is too much?

[carl.hops]

Only time and good science will tell, lets wait and see!!

[steveandrong]

Kinda makes you wonder what would happen to the price of oil if the most industrialized nations of the world all went back to burning coal for electricity and using the coal gasification process for fueling the autos....how important would all these conflicts in the mideast be then?

[steveandrong]

I for one do not purport to know everything about anything, but, is just my opinion that in the good ole usa there is one heck of a lot more oil, gas and coal reserves than the government or oil or energy company would ever like you to know about......maybe the usa was one of the first to get heavily industrialized when the oil boom began, but if you think about it, the industrialization back then didn't amount to a wart on a fleas ass compared to the modern industrial world of today....and just how long have we been relying on foriegn oil?.....do you think it is just coincidence that we began to run so low on crude oil so early when things were just getting going?....i'll never believe that we are in such a bad posture whereas oil is concerned.....i don't believe the government would let our situation become so strategically dire.....why burn all ours up when we can burn up everyone elses and keep ours for later...and then ours will be worth even more than what was being paid for foreign deliveries

[a2784]

I for one do not purport to know everything about anything, but, is just my opinion that in the good ole usa there is one heck of a lot more oil, gas and coal reserves than the government or oil or energy company would ever like you to know about......maybe the usa was one of the first to get heavily industrialized when the oil boom began, but if you think about it, the industrialization back then didn't amount to a wart on a fleas ass compared to the modern industrial world of today....and just how long have we been relying on foriegn oil?.....do you think it is just coincidence that we began to run so low on crude oil so early when things were just getting going?....i'll never believe that we are in such a bad posture whereas oil is concerned.....i don't believe the government would let our situation become so strategically dire.....why burn all ours up when we can burn up everyone elses and keep ours for later...and then ours will be worth even more than what was being paid for foreign deliveries

Now there is an interesting thought/theory. My first thought was "no way" on second thought .... who knows.

[Robert S.]

Hemp seed oil will burn in a diesel engine. All engines should be diesel. End of problem. Also would put millions to work growing the plant. But, talk about "no way" !!! No way. Even considering that the strain for the best fiber and seed oil has no high if you smoke it. The oil, chemical, and paper industries lobby stranglehold is too strong.

[chengdu4me]

I for one do not purport to know everything about anything, but, is just my opinion that in the good ole usa there is one heck of a lot more oil, gas and coal reserves than the government or oil or energy company would ever like you to know about......maybe the usa was one of the first to get heavily industrialized when the oil boom began, but if you think about it, the industrialization back then didn't amount to a wart on a fleas ass compared to the modern industrial world of today....and just how long have we been relying on foriegn oil?.....do you think it is just coincidence that we began to run so low on crude oil so early when things were just getting going?....i'll never believe that we are in such a bad posture whereas oil is concerned.....i don't believe the government would let our situation become so strategically dire.....why burn all ours up when we can burn up everyone elses and keep ours for later...and then ours will be worth even more than what was being paid for foreign deliveries

Now there is an interesting thought/theory. My first thought was "no way" on second thought .... who knows.

 

 

That is exactly what is happening. My Uncle was a geologist for Shell, then Mobil; now under contract to Exxon. He is one of the leading specialist in world for finding oil. He has been doing for over 60 years. By his calculations over his career, he told me(back in 2000) that the tapped and untapped reserves in the U.S. would (at a 5% percent growth in usage per year increase) last the U.S. 280 years.

 

He went on to tell me that the known reserves on the planet would fill the world's demand at the same growth rate for over 1,000 years.

 

Now, let me tell you this. My Uncle is a very rich man. He made his money by telling the oil companies where to drill. He gets a piece of the action, so to speak. But, he told me that his job is all smoke and mirrors. He told me that it doesn't matter where you drill, you ARE going to strike oil at some unknown depth. According to him, the entire planet has an oil "blanket" at some depth. Finding the places with the least depth(least cost of recovery) is his forte.

[Daviation]

Hemp seed oil will burn in a diesel engine. All engines should be diesel. End of problem. Also would put millions to work growing the plant. But, talk about "no way" !!! No way. Even considering that the strain for the best fiber and seed oil has no high if you smoke it. The oil, chemical, and paper industries lobby stranglehold is too strong.

 

Saw a bumper sticker on a 28 year old Mercedes diesel that said -

 

"I'll still burn eco-fuels when hybrids litter our junk yards"

 

Now that was funny even BEFORE we had to start throwing the latter away cuz their brakes didn't work.