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POPSDangers of natural gas from shale using high pressure H2O Traditional gas wells bore straight into porous stone, using a few thousand gallons of water. But dense shale has gas locked inside Hydraulic fracturing “fracking,” and horizontal drilling unlock it. Each hydraulically fractured horizontal well requires 2 to 7 million gallons of fresh water mixed with sand and thousands of gallons of industrial chemicals to make the water penetrate easily. The frac-water mixture is blasted at high pressure into shale up to 10,000 feet deep, fracturing them. The sand lodges in the cracks, propping them open and providing a path for the gas to exit after external pressure is released. Besides using vast amounts of groundwater, scientists worry that toxic frac water – 30 percent or more – remains underground and may years later pollute freshwater aquifers. Millions of gallons of frac water come back to the surface. It could be treated, but in Texas it is most often reinjected into the ground.
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POPSMORE NATURAL GAS ? AT WHAT PRICE? A seemingly endless array of opportunities for drilling our way out of this problem we drilled our way into and the huge cost, environmentally and ultimately financially
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POPSUniversal Networking Language The UNL is a computer language that enables computers to process information and knowledge. It is an artificial language that replicates the functions of natural languages. Using the UNL, people can express all kinds of information and knowledge that conveyed by natural languages and computers can intercommunicate using such information and knowledge. The UNL not only makes it possible to provide people with a Language Infrastructure (LI) for distributing, receiving and understanding multilingual information, but also makes it possible to provide computers with enough knowledge in the form accessible and understandable. This Knowledge Infrastructure (KI) enables computers to make intelligent processing including reasoning.
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POPSPelosi Delivers Americans Her Poison Bill
This is the only plan that would allow the American taxpayers to receive the full $2.6 trillion in lease payments, royalties and corporate taxes that some estimate will be generated from full exploration of the OCS. But the all-of-the-above plan does not end there. It also opens up the 10.3 billion barrels of oil estimated to be in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. A 2007 study by the University of California estimated that leases and royalties from ANWR would generate $251 billion in government and state revenue — and that was assuming a barrel of oil cost $53. Oil opens at $102 a barrel today. Alternative energy is not ignored either. The Republican plan also attempts to improve energy conservation with tax credits for businesses and families who purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles. Barriers to the revival of the nuclear power industry are removed, and the tax credits for renewable energy (including but not limited to wind, solar and hydrogen) are part of the plan.
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POPSMystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World
(cont.)The U.S. government has subsidized this flight of capital by granting corporations tax concessions on their overseas investments, and even paying some of their relocation expenses---much to the outrage of labor unions here at home who see their jobs evaporating. The transnationals push out local businesses in the Third World and preempt their markets. American agribusiness cartels, heavily subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, dump surplus products in other countries at below cost and undersell local farmers. As Christopher Cook describes it in his Diet for a Dead Planet, they expropriate the best land in these countries for cash-crop exports, usually monoculture crops requiring large amounts of pesticides, leaving less and less acreage for the hundreds of varieties of organically grown foods that feed the local populations. By displacing local populations from their lands and robbing them of their self-sufficiency, corporations create overcrowded labor markets of desperate people
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POPSThey have to do better than this. A half hearted attempt to appease the majority of Americans who want States to be able to develop energy sources to power the US with US fuel. Open it all up. We can do it cleanly. And don't tax the energy companies who would develop the wells. Instead give tax breaks to companies who are willing to invest their own capital in developing new sources of energy.
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POPSPalin to Discuss Gas Line Participation with North Slope Producers Palin is expected to ask the companies in the coming days what they need to get onboard with the state-backed TransCanada project. "The governor is hopeful to have one-on-one conversations with oil industry executives in the near future," Leighow said. The governor's critics within the oil industry said they were amazed the administration has not undertaken these type of discussions before now, but state officials wanted to wait until legislators approved TransCanada's proposal. And then the whole vice president thing happened. Representatives of the oil companies declined to speculate on the subject of the call in advance, but all said they support efforts to commercialize their North Slope holdings. "We share a common objective with the governor to develop energy resources in the state of Alaska," said Charlie Rowton, Conoco spokesman. "We haven't always agreed on the specifics but we share her desire to achieve an outcome beneficial to all stakeholders.
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POPSDon't Underestimate Governor Palin President George W. Bush called the pick “exciting” and said Palin “is a proven reformer who is a wise steward of taxpayer dollars and champion for accountability in government.” Considered a rising political star by state Republican leaders, she was appointed in 2003 to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, a significant body in the energy-rich state. While on the commission, Palin led an ethics investigation of another member, state Republican Chairman Randy Ruedrich, who was accused of conflicts of interest involving oil companies.
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POPSPalin Invokes God to Justify Iraq, Pipelines. What a....Repukelican. ..no I won't say what I really think. There are women here I respect too much...But not Sarah, or Cindy McCain or Laura Bush--any woman who can cleave to men like that doesn't deserve MY respect.
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POPSPalin a Good Christian Soldier Well, there goes her cred in the Arab street. But then, I never thought for a moment that the McCain/Palin ticket was focused on peace in the Middle East. Her proclamation of what amounted to a call for a Crusade just might fit perfectly with the bomb, bomb, bomb - Iran mentality of McCain. These are dangerous people. Unless you wish to keep squandering billions in revenue and wasting countless lives in needless wars they must be defeated in November.
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POPSFast credit repair! This site www.moneydoctor101.com is a pretty cool site providing free informational resources, tips and strategies to repair your credit and get out of debt. Looks pretty new so keep your eye on it
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POPSUtopia for a modern age. Our goals include returning healthy biodiversity to the heart of our cities, agriculture to community gardens and the streets, and convenience and pleasure to walking, bicycling and transit. We work to build thriving city and neighborhood centers while reversing sprawl development; to build whole cities based on human needs and “access by proximity” rather than cities built in the current pattern of automobile driven excess, wasteful consumption and the destruction of the biosphere. We visualize a future in which waterways in neighborhood environments and prosperous downtown centers are opened for curious children and native plants and animals.
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POPSSt Kilda Visit website for lots more - including how to visit, and working holidays with the National trust for Scotland.
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POPSForever Is A Long Time- Extinction Of Too Many Watch the slide show attached. Great sadness for the losses incurred and those that are coming in your lifetime. We are a destructive force and our role as caretakers of the world around us is not well exercised.
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