As oil companies make emissions pledges, Congress calls hearing on climate change disinformation
Email Subscribe
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Gamecock on NY Times 1976 : “Cool periods produce greater climatic instability”
- GWS on Boris Admits He Is Arming Nazis In The Ukraine
- rah on Individual Carbon Footprint Tracker
- Michael Peinsipp on NY Times 1976 : “Cool periods produce greater climatic instability”
- GWS on NY Times 1976 : “Cool periods produce greater climatic instability”
Archives
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- March 2015
- January 2015
The fine print that I’ve seen indicates that they will make their operations carbon-neutral, but they’ve gone out of their way to exclude the use of their products. LOL
I suppose if you have to take a conciliatory stance, this is one of the weakest ones a hydrocarbon company could take.
Virtue-signaling, all the way down.
So,Exxon and Chevron(both former standard oil) will help even those to go net zero who don’t want,
by excluding them from oil supply.
A massive massive increase in MSM propaganda and big tech censorship
can be expected to keep AGW alive during the coming permanent energy crysis.
Will be interesting to see revolutions in those places that dare to try to replace Exxon and Chevron as energy supplier
Would some SANE Scientist tell me how you get OIL products without Oil…AHHH I got it!
Magic Fairy Dust from a Unicorns ASS!
Time to rename the companies and their products in green and sky-blue terms that will offend no one and will calm the masses into making them want to adorn themselves with sparkling shackles and iridescent nose-leashes.
They made a president out of Biden
therefore it should be possible to make oil products without oil.
Vegan oil products.
A dozen or so years ago, I got funding from Sandia and BP to do just that. The first step is to use solar (or nuclear) energy to produce either hydrogen from water or carbon monoxide from CO2. (There are lots of sources for CO2) Then with the water gas shift (or reverse water gas shift reaction) you produce syngas, a mixture or H2 and CO. From there you can use Fischer Tropsch or other processes to make a range of liquid hydrocarbon fuels. My project focused on CO2 splitting with a solar driven thermochemical process. The project was called Sunshine to Petrol.
That being said, that kind of process (or any solar or nuclear driven process) will be very expensive. It is an option, which at some point will become necessary. In 2008, before the advent of fracking combined with horizontal drilling, this kind of research was of a lot more urgency than now.
At any rate, it is not insane fairy tale dust. It is possible.
I consider myself a sane scientist, but the state of the world, especially the stupid global warming crap, is driving me insane.
Interesting. How much net energy would such a process generate?
The synthetic diesel or gasoline heating values are the same as the fossil equivalents. All of the energy input, however, is solar or nuclear. Inefficiencies will mean that the inputs will necessarily be higher that the heating value in the synthetic fuel.
As it turns out, it takes a heck of a lot of solar to make a gallon of gasoline.
Perhaps now is the time to launch my new wonder product – dehydrated water.
That will for sure kick my semidry water(high co2 levels make the water so dry) out of business.