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by BMCWrites | November 4, 2009 at 02:31 pm
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Members of the mainstream media -- people who call themselves "journalists" -- seem to have paid absolutely no attention to a Congressional Research Service report on energy released Oct. 27 -- this, despite the fact that two energy-related measures (i.e., the Kerry-Boxer and Waxman-Markey) are at the center of heated debate now taking place on Capitol Hill.
I used Google News Search this morning to search for the use of the exact phrase, "Congressional Research Service," and either of the terms, "Kerry-Boxer" or "Waxman-Markey", during the past month. Only eight results surfaced.
Among the eight results, I found that no major media outlets in the United States had mentioned the CRS report, that two Canadian news outlets did mention it, and that one conservative publication in the U.S., National Review, covered it here.
What did they miss? Two of the most-noteworthy items highlighted in the report produced by the nonpartisan research arm of Congress were as follows:
- The United States has the largest supply of energy resources on Earth -- more than Russia or Saudi Arabia; and
- The United States has tapped into only 13 percent of these energy resources, with the other 87 percent still untouched.
For a more-detailed look at what the journalistic wannabes have missed, read a related post, United States Could Be Energy Independent If….
To read other posts about the nation's oil and natural gas industry, click here.
Originally published at BobMcCarty.com.
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at 19:00 on November 4th, 2009
Shhhhh. Someone might want to use it.
at 03:08 on November 5th, 2009
Indeed the west and specifically the US have the major resources in energy underground easy accessible too. Using the coal reserve resource for energy will keep the money in the country, creating millions of jobs and making the west nonindependent from the middle east where our money for fossil fuel is used to sponsor terrorist activities. Why not use the Coal-to-liquid Technologies that do exist since the 1920s. Only recently new developments have made its conversion process more efficient and economical. For years it was simply too expensive compared to pumping oil out of the ground. This process require a great deal of heat, heat derived from coal combustion. This process is referred to as Indirect Liquefaction. A major disadvantage of the technique is that the amount of coal used for heat in the coal-to-liquid process is greater than the amount converted to fuel. As a result, this process produces large amounts of CO2, ash, fly ash, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides - N2O, not to mention the enormous waste of coal. The making of hydrogen for the process forms the bulk of pollutants produced from direct liquefaction, but the creation of these pollutants can be largely avoided by separating the hydrogen with heat generated from a new generation of super-safe nuclear reactors. Electrical power production from nuclear energy does not produce any CO2 or N2O emissions. With this type of energy clean diesel fuel can efficiently be extracted from coal.
We all should fight for this in the utmost interest of our industrialized nations!