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Wed Oct-06-10 11:51 AM
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Ah, we will get renewable energy, I'm sure. |
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The military is now complaining about dependence on foreign energy sources being a national security issue and putting the troops in harm's way. MSNBC just had a major general on talking about this. Kinda think that this hasn't happened because the military hasn't needed us to have other technologies so long as it could just stomp on another nation to get their resources. These attacks on supply lines in Pakistan have been a wakeup call for them and I think the kind of fighting that the Taliban and other extremists engage in makes it much more difficult for them to wield the great war machine.
Yeah, we'll get renewable energy, but for all the wrong reasons...we'll get it so that it is easier for the military to fight.
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Wed Oct-06-10 11:53 AM
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1. the military will get it before private industry |
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they don't have ROI to worry about.
Private industry will get it when we start ratcheting down fossil fuel subsidies, which could be anywhere between 5 years and never.
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Wed Oct-06-10 11:59 AM
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2. The reason the military is looking at alternatives is because they are aware of peak oil... |
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Edited on Wed Oct-06-10 12:03 PM by Subdivisions
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Wed Oct-06-10 12:04 PM
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3. Kick. Will you ignore this information? n/t |
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Wed Oct-06-10 12:10 PM
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4. Yes, but there's no guarantee that it will be carbon neutral. |
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The military may simply push for things like synthetic liquid fuels made from coal or methane hydrates from the ocean floor.
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Wed Oct-06-10 12:14 PM
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5. Coal production will peak next year and begin to decline. Any use of coal to produce |
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liquid fuel will not only experience rising costs from declining resources, it will also cause that resource to deplete even faster.
Is there a single methane hydrate production facility is operation today? Is there any infrastructure anywhere for the production of methane hydrates?
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Wed Oct-06-10 12:37 PM
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7. My understanding was the we have hundres of years worth of coal yet. |
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Not that we should use it, we shouldn't, but I've always heard that we have plenty.
Maybe I've heard wrong.
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Wed Oct-06-10 12:55 PM
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Wed Oct-06-10 12:14 PM
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Just like the American revolution when the British supply lines were cut by the homeland American revolutionary 'insurgents'.
War is bad on supply lines.
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Wed Oct-06-10 01:46 PM
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9. We need solar tanks to secure those oil fields! Er. |
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