Energy Returned on Energy Invested (EROEI) for Shale Oil and Shale Gas
Energy returned on energy invested (EROEI) Shale oil and shale gas This is actually a follow-up to questions regarding energy return on investment in shale plays. The simple answer is probably best answered with a rhetorical question. Why would the number of...
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Energy site is now live. I will move a few of the old energy posts over onto this sub-domain, but some of the old posts will be very hard to move so they will likely stay on the Main Site.
Thoughts on Energy Today: A shift of Hubbert’s Peak
A few years ago if you would have told me that North America could be energy independent I would have laughed at you, and at the time I would have been right to do so, but things are changing. The estimated recoverable oil in the Bakken/Three Forks alone is probably...
Fracking and CNN…
It has been awhile since I have said anything about fracking, but today I saw that CNN ran a story regarding an anti-fracking protest in Philadelphia. Ironically there was no coverage of a much larger protest taking place in New York City regarding economic problems....
Why I still love ethanol (Post by Naturalplastics)
(The following post was written by a friend of mine. You will never hear me defend corn ethanol as an intelligent energy source in North America.) At a point where almost everyone has jumped off the ethanol bandwagon of the early 2000’s, I find myself debating the...
