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POPSOil Demand and Price Falls--No Need to Drill More Supply of crude oil is way up. Gas demand dropped over 4 percent during last month. Just ask the automakers who have large inventories of trucks and SUVs unsold. That consumers have changed both their habits and vehicles is now registering in demand at the pumps. With this being the situation Big Oil will not be doing any new drilling soon, no matter what politicians say. (Not against new drilling, just showing that supply was never the problem causing high prices).
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POPSPeak Oil? Don't ask the "experts" Falling big car sales, bus and train ridership up, airlines in trouble all over, $1,000 fuel surcharges. The pollies and the oil producers and the pundits may be fighting about PO, but it looks like the rest of us get it.
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POPSMatthews Promotes Russert to Master 9/11 Gatekeeper! Of all the endless possibilities, Matthews chose to memorialize Russert for some uncanny and privileged insight into the truth about what happened on September 11th. Wow, just like that, on the morning of 911, Tim Russert KNEW the motivations of a whole group of incinerated hijackers. That’s really fantastic. He also KNEW the planes had enough fuel to melt the girders of the World Trade towers. He just KNEW the temperature of burning jet fuel, and he KNEW the melting temperature of steel. Tim Russert was not only a mind reader of the dead, but an undeclared expert in aviation practices and thermal physics. I’m impressed. FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/editorial/reggies-commentary/20-regs-thoughts/2257-matthews-promotes-russert-to-master-911-gatekeeper
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POPS|Energy Solution from Bugs This is an exciting development! Hopefully the reverse will now com true. When the "bugs" move - all the giant suckers in the oil business will tremble.
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POPSDisappearing Airline Service A number of things have happened recently in the airline industry that will affect travel for the foreseeable future. One of them is the elimination of service to small airports. As this article points out, airlines are responding to steep jet fuel prices by pulling out of small airports and cutting the number of scheduled flights. Have you seen this trend at your nearby airport yet?
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POPSLong Term Air Travel Forecast Not Good If the forecasting in this article is correct, potential travelers should try to snatch up plane tickets for trips in the next six months sooner than later. Airlines are raising prices and cutting capacity to cover the cost of more expensive jet fuel. Some industry watchers have been critical of the fare hikes (see Joe Sharkey) but that won't change the reality: there will be fewer flights, particularly from regional airports, and they will be pricier.
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POPSSweet Deal:Economical Biodiesel Chop up sugarcane. Feed it to bacteria. Produce diesel fuel. Bacteria will begin pooping out Mack-truck grade diesel fuel in test amounts next year and in commercial amounts in 2010 under a new joint venture announced today between a Northern California biotech company and a Brazilian sugarcane processor. Unlike ethanol, which draws the bulk of alternative biofuel attention, the bacterial fuel can be distributed through existing infrastructure, according to Amyris.
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POPSBiofuel flight gets turbulent response
He says algae will be the most likely source for renewable energy in the future. Algae? The way energy use is skyrocketing, in time anything available will be used, corn, rice, wood, cotton. Over above any waste material any fossil fuels and nuclear energy. The problem is the escalation of energy use is beyond the capacity to produce it. Has it ever occurred to anyone that the biggest waste by product of energy use the way things are designed today, is HEAT. There should make more productive means of energy transformation developed. So much of the 'energy' that is produced as fuel burns to power an engine amongst other things, goes straight out the exhaust pipe, without performing any useful function. Like the way they use nuclear energy to boil water to make steam. after the medium is expanded through heating/combustion, it stays that way. Why? because we're too busy thinking about the next 5 minutes. The children, and grandchildren can worry about the future. If there is one.
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POPSRecycling of Greenhouse Gases Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are proposing a concept for removing carbon dioxide from the air and turning it back into gasoline.
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POPSUSAF Test Flight Blend Of Jet Fuel + Coal-Based 'Synfuel' While synthetic fuel has the capacity to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, it could also double CO2 emissions produced by military flight. At the time of this writing, synfuel is made via Fischer-Tropsch process from either coal or natural gas to produce a somewhat cleaner burning but extremely greenhouse-gas intensive product. The Air Force may be underscoring a recently hyped green image, but it seems that economic considerations are largely at play here.
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POPSCapture+Recycle CO2 Into Fuel At Least Twice [Petrol Project]
The prospect of a liquid fuel is significant because it fits in with the current gasoline and oil infrastructure. After the synthesized fuel is made from the carbon monoxide, it could be transported through a pipeline or put in a truck and hauled to a gas station, just like gasoline refined from petroleum is now. Plus it would work in ordinary gasoline and diesel engine vehicles. “This invention, though probably a good 15 to 20 years away from being on the market, holds a real promise of being able to reduce carbon dioxide emissions while preserving options to keep using fuels we know and love,” she says. “Recycling carbon dioxide into fuels provides an attractive alternative to burying it.” Providing funding for Sunshine to Petrol is Sandia’s internal Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program. The research has also attracted interest and some funding from DoD/DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).
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POPSAlgae Emerges as a Potential Fuel Source Cool... but I'll be impressed the day we all have a system that connects the plumbing in our homes up to some sort of system that filters out something useful in waste to power our vehicles. Something with grass clippings would be cool too.
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POPS The "Money Tree" Growing In Congress' Backyard When the global company launched the ecomagination campaign, guess where it held the launch party? Its D.C. lobbying office, of course. "Green is the new black" On "Days of Our Lives," a fictional couple had a fictionally "green" wedding. And the cast of the "Today" show burned massive amounts of jet fuel sending its hosts to the corners of the globe - leaving a "carbon footprint" larger than those left near the recycle bin on "The Biggest Loser." I could go on, but you've seen the tyranny of Green even if you've never turned on NBC. And that's why, on top of all the other reasons, Green Week - and the Green Millennium it hopes to usher in - is so annoying. It plays us all for suckers. First of all, you have enormously rich people at fantastically wealthy corporations seeking grace on the cheap with a few symbolic gestures that come at absolutely no cost and often-considerable profit.
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