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You missed one of my favourites
Scientists say the sun is entering a new sunspot phase (my terminology is spotty here) and is acting strangely. Or at least they can't quite understand/explain what's going on. One end of the world as we know it scenerio you missed is a Giant Solar Flare. That would be a huge burst of energy emitted from the sun. It would take about 15 minutes ...
Posted to The End of America by Mr Brown on August 5, 2009
Natural Gas Issue
Despite his reportedly in-depth research, Mr. Levi never mentions the issue of natural gas consumption at the tar sands. Natural gas is far and away the largest operating cost for the heavy oil industry because of the high energy demands for both the extraction and ''upgrading'' (the process for turning crude bitumen into synthetic petroleum) ...
Posted to Green Room by adfreeman1 on June 20, 2009
Balanced article! But mention coming technologies, too.
Thank you for a well-researched and balanced article. I'm Alberta-born, but not involved in any part of the oil industry - and as some posters have noted, we get very little from the resource exploitation except jobs. I bike to work and pay extra for household electricity to have it (notionally) come from Alberta's many wind farms. But I have ...
Posted to Green Room by rbrander on June 19, 2009