Continuous Resources Vs Traditional Resources
Continuous Resources Vs Traditional Resources: Geology 1. Continuous Resources Vs Traditional Resources: Geology 2. Continuous Resources Vs Traditional Resources: Technology Changes 3. Continuous Resources Vs Traditional Resources: Energy Return on Energy Invested 4....
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...