tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24847368.post7899325938845016618..comments2024-01-29T10:04:23.986-08:00Comments on Al Fin Energy: Gallery of World Hydrocarbon Endowment & Shale Gas Resourcesal finhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13739269791915017382noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24847368.post-38651968033304723932012-04-02T09:25:24.881-07:002012-04-02T09:25:24.881-07:00Is this a rhetorical question, given how many time...Is this a rhetorical question, given how many times I have answered it before?<br /><br />Informed persons need to understand that different forms of energy come at different costs and prices. <br /><br />If you can use a cheaper form of energy to produce a more expensive form of energy, your approach may be sustainable for quite some time, until markets shift, regardless of "EROEI."<br /><br />That is why gas to liquids (GTL) is earning the Qatar Pearl plant $6 billion a year -- gas is cheap and diesel is expensive.<br /><br />When high temperature gas cooled modular nuclear reactors become available -- whether from Russia, China, India, the US, Canada, France, or wherever -- we will enter an entire new era of energy substitution.<br /><br />Because nuclear fuel is relatively cheap and incredibly energy dense. The high quality industrial heat will drive CTL, GTL, BTL, etc. even more cheaply than using natural gas, shifting the EROEI upward.al finhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13739269791915017382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24847368.post-31678940149273557302012-04-01T18:04:36.333-07:002012-04-01T18:04:36.333-07:00Is the EROEI taken into account by whether it is w...Is the EROEI taken into account by whether it is worthwhile to drill in oil and gas deposits by oil companies or do they use a different method? Cause thats seems to be a common doomer argument that the EROEI for unconventional oil/gas cannot run our society and is not profitable.Whirlwind22https://www.blogger.com/profile/11889314199308895265noreply@blogger.com