Obama keeps talking about “energy independence” as being the motivation for “green energy”
This is utter nonsense. North America has vast reserves of fossil fuels, and we already have the ability to achieve energy independence. Green energy advocates are the ones keeping us from becoming energy independent.
It is all about creating an excuse to tax fossil fuels. I doubt that even Obama is stupid enough to believe that Air Force One can run off windmills or solar cells.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A half mile below the ground at Prudhoe Bay, above the vast oil field that helped trigger construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline, a drill rig has tapped what might one day be the next big energy source.
The U.S. Department of Energy and industry partners over two winters drilled into a reservoir of methane hydrate, which looks like ice but burns like a candle if a match warms its molecules. There is little need now for methane, the main ingredient of natural gas. With the boom in production from hydraulic fracturing, the United States is awash in natural gas for the near future and is considering exporting it, but the DOE wants to be ready with methane if there’s a need.
“If you wait until you need it, and then you have 20 years of research to do, that’s not a good plan,” said Ray Boswell, technology manager for methane hydrates within the DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory.
The nearly $29 million science experiment on the North Slope produced 1 million cubic feet of methane
I’ve heard and estimate of over 1 trillion tons of methane hydrate in the ocean. How much of that is recoverable is another question.
In time, and I suspect not much time, ALL of it will be recoverable. Our technological advancement is moving at such a tremendous rate now, if given the freedom to do so, innovative individuals will be discovering ways of obtaining so much energy in the near future that energy will become essentially free. That is as long as we are free to do so. I believe this is the reason why our “real” energy sources are being locked away, so we are not able to produce very cheap and abundant energy. After all, what would the world look like after the proliferation of very cheap energy? The people in control would no longer have that control.
To clarify, this has NEVER been about climate, energy or environment. This has been, and ALWAYS will be, about power and control … PERIOD
Not only is he trying to kill carbon energy and impose carbon taxes, do not forget that his Arab friends in the Middle East JUST LOVE all of the money we send them when we buy THEIR oil. They would suffer if we get out of the market and prices would drop with less demand. In my opinion, he is all about supporting Islam and the powers that be over there. He would NOT hurt THEIR funding stream.
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