Is it me?

[BIGSAGE136]

I am sure its only because I live in Florida, and have a couple of bad days in the last month....BUT.

Its also Monday after a rather large storm, and so maybe its me.

But gosh darned...how long until we get sick of this, and make somebody do something?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/05/BUGKB8JI2G1.DTL

http://www.americanantigravity.com/index.shtml

Mind you, this is science fact not fiction. We are being told dooms day is around the corner as Peak Oil is fact not fiction. In a narrow minded sense thats true.

But look at the technology that's being suppressed.

Is it me? :06:

 

[dlndavid]

Sorry about the bad luck in weather there in Florida, too many hurricanes.
This month's issue of Machine Design has some very promising future technologies, especially Hydrogen as an alternative fuel supply.
http://www.machinedesign.com/
http://www.machinedesign.com/ASP/vi...leId=57282&strSite=MDSite&Screen=CURRENTISSUE
http://www.machinedesign.com/ASP/vi...leId=57266&strSite=MDSite&Screen=CURRENTISSUE
Also there are companies in the UK that can produce Hydrogen on the fly from stuff like sunflower seed oil.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3601130.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3676468.stm
I think the guy from the SF Chronicle may just be looking at a crisis scenario with no other alternatives, but there are. Scientists, Physicists and Engineers make things happen, not Analysts

 

[BIGSAGE136]

Thanks! A couple of rounds of chess with the computer, and I feel a lot better. The other than doom and gloom outlook always helps!

 

[wapyaly]

be greatful you don't live in the uk, where its always cold and rainy!! We don't even get interesting thunder storms to look at. It just rains, and rains and rains.

 

[WarmWaterDiver]

I think the guy from the SF Chronicle may just be looking at a crisis scenario with no other alternatives, but there are. Scientists, Physicists and Engineers make things happen, not Analysts

I thank you sir - and agree this "sky is falling" end of recoverable oil has been touted several times in my lifetime. Each time proven wrong through economics and human ingenuity. There's still LOTS of deep-water stuff that can be explored, gas-to-liquids new technology trials, incredible beds of methane hydrates on the ocean floor have been found, new spins on really heavy hydrocarbon recovery like the Canadian 'synthetic crudes' extracted and converted from tar sands, similar recoveries in Venezuela's Orinoco area (these crude oils are more dense than water, they're so heavy!) etc. etc. etc.

I remember in the early 1970's oil prices of $50 a barrel were predicted by the mid-1980's, and $100 a barrel crude by year 2000 was a 'no-brainer' according to many analysts. In 1987, at the height of the Iran-Iraq war where both countries were dumping oil on the market liberally to feed their war chests, crude oil was $7 a barrel and a spot in South Texas where I lived at that time had regular (then leaded) gasoline selling at less than $0.50 per gallon at the pump. Total taxes on a gallon of gasoline then was $0.05 at the pump if I remeber right - versus $0.43 to $0.48 a gallon now.

In 1999, after adjusting for taxes and inflation, gasoline pump prices were lowest since the Great Depression.

Companies like ARCO based a lot of their long term investment strategy on these astronomical extrapolations in the 1970's - and where are they now? ARCO has been assimilated to be part of the currently largest oil company in the USA, British Petroleum (how did that happen? British Petroleum the largest oil company in the US? Must have had a different business strategy.).

I do not adhere to these 'gloom and doom is on the horizon' predictions personally - but who knows, maybe they will be right some time - if they keep at it long enough and often enough. In the mean time, I'll chug right along innovating . . .

 

[WarmWaterDiver]

Oops - I double posted somehow. Second post deleted.