Sunday, June 21, 2020

"Green" vehicles? How close?

Nell Dipiero: Stop worrying about oil. There is so much of the stuff, it ain't funny. The planet is swimming in it. The University of Aston in Birmingham (England) are currently researching new methods of oil extraction. With current extraction technology the best we do from oil in porous rock is 30%. When the well is considered finished, there is approximately 70% of the oil still in the ground. Quote" Could bubbles help increase Earth’s oil reserves?NEW research which could help salvage huge amounts of the world’s oil that currently goes to waste is being carried out as a collaborative venture between Aston University and Nottingham Trent. Experts are looking at using Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) scanners to find a way of increasing the oil quantity being extracted from porous rock, which is often less than 30%.All of the world’s oil is found in porous rock beneath the ground and is usually obtained by drilling two holes â€" water is pumped into the first, which! forces oil through the second. However, only a small amount of the oil is ever taken before the water starts to re-emerge. Once this happens the borehole is closed and the remaining 70% of oil can never be recovered." see http://www1.aston.ac.uk/about/news/releases/2005/n...I have a friend in oil exploration who is currently in Siberia. Every time he puts a hole in the ground - oil comes out. Australia and Canada have huge reserves of oil shale. Kuwait has been exploiting one oil field since they started. There are another 2 fields under this one, both bigger and higher quality. These are facts, not speculation. Both Australia and Canada estimate that they have reserves for at least the next 300 years. However, you will get screwed by the oil companies and the futures speculators. The only way we will keep cheep oil is to change the way that oil is traded - vital commodities like oil should not be traded on futures markets - and open up large new oil fields in places such ! as New Zealand (estimated 200 years reserves) Russia, Australi! a and Canada....Show more

Avis Brantner: I have a green toyota. It looks really great after a good wash and wax.The problem with the "green cars" is that there is so much "carbon Footprint" and emmissions involved with their manufacture that it really doesn't make that much difference if it is green or not. Additionally, it takes an incredible amount of fuel to make all the electricity to run them. You have to remember that Fossil fuels must be burned to manufacture the electricity.If you want truly green technology, you are going to have to go back to the original Alternative fuel ... Hay and oats....Show more

Marion Wieboldt: don't wait for 50 years now itself gasoline cars are available and in future there will be solar powered vehicles and if you want to use vehicle then there is only option to go to solar or wind powered vehicle.

Davida Gisriel: You will be forced. We don't have enough oil to last another 20 years at current production levels, l! et alone 50 years.It doesn't matter what the environmentalists say or what the government mandates. Simple economics and physics will make oil to expensive to just burn it in the not-so-distant future.Several electric vehicles are near production now, expect competing models in the marketplace (in small numbers) by 2010 from major auto manufacturers. Natural gas is a relatively cheap conversion, and the U.S. has enough of that to power our transportation ourselves.Add to that, the idea of keeping our economy dependent on unstable and unfriendly countries is unpatriotic and unwise. Additionally, some of those countries support terrorists, directly or indirectly, so our oil habit is making us pay for both sides of the war in Iraq (former CIA director James Woolsey has a Prius with a bumper sticker "Osama bin Laden hates this car").What you do today is still your choice, but I'm choosing to never buy a standard wasteful gas-only car again. That technology is not the way of ! the future and can only harm our economy.(Dana - the IEA is eternally o! ptimistic, both in supply and price. Other sources have much more dire estimates than that, saying $200/barrel is possible in the next 3 years with any kind of supply disruption during a recovering economy, but in any case our current $60/barrel is likely the low end of prices).(Gary - the oil that is remaining is expensive stuff. Canada's tar sands are only viable with prices above $50/barrel and takes tremendous amounts of natural gas and water to process. Our big discoveries are becoming very rare (discoveries peaked in 1962) and we're pumping out the old fields. The main Kuwaiti field for instance was discovered in 1938, and production is now permanently below its peak. Also, pumping in water (or CO2...) is a recent technique to increase production from aging fields, including the giant Ghawar field... yes there's a lot left, but it's increasingly expensive to extract and to process compared to what we're used to. High oil prices are a product of the marketplace, s! upply and demand, and the supply isn't increasing any more.)...Show more

Chris Rosenkranz: I hope it is within 3 to 5 years. Nobody will force it as long as you can pay for gasoline. Maybe if everyone else is using something else then gas will be cheaper.

Ramona Pago: The closest thing to a green vehicle was the steam car at the turn of the century. Burned wood to make the steam. Polluting smoke but green, huh?The closest thing we have today is bio fuel made from vegetation and solar or wind to charge battery powered cars.

Wally Perrien: Not a chance. The International Energy Agency just came out with a report saying that oil will cost $200 per barrel by 2030. http://climateprogress.org/2008/11/06/iea-oil-pric...That translates to about $8/gallon gas. Do you really want to be driving a gas car when gas costs that much? And that's only in 20 years - forget 50 years.Nobody is going to force you to buy an alternative fuel vehicle. But they will bec! ome more cost effective than gas cars in the very near future....Show m! ore

Cletus Crotts: What are you afraid of? It's just a type of fuel; not a big deal. I have 2 cars that run on natural gas right now, and they're great! I paid 79 cents a gallon to fill up yesterday. Natural gas is also much cleaner for the environment, plus there's lots of it here in North America and off the west coast, so the money spent buying it stays in our own economy. The cars aren't expensive to buy, plus in many states you can get a nice big tax credit, too. I bought my 1999 Ford Crown Vic back in April for $4000 and my 1998 Ford F-150 pickup truck in July for $5800. The Vic gets 24 mpg and the truck gets 15 mpg, about the same as their gasoline powered counterparts. I've heard the Honda Civic GX gets 35-38 mpg. Now, jets are a different story as far as fuel is concerned. That would be years away, but Richard Branson (Virgin Airlines, etc.) flew a plane with an alternative fuel earlier this year, so it can be done. So, you really have nothing to worry about ! unless you are in the Middle East and have a lot of oil wells......Show more

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