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Fracking: The Pros and Cons Continue
Well, I have now officially commented on the fracking debate. A few days ago, Richard Poeton, a retired environmental scientist for the EPA, wrote a letter to the New York Times, basically stating that “(our) gas resource is too important to ignore” … Continue reading
New York City’s Water Supply: Probably safe from Fracking
New York State’s Governor Andrew Cuomo will shortly decide whether or not to lift the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the Marcellus Shale. This technology is used in other states to produce natural gas and oil and would similarly … Continue reading
Future Automotive Fuel Options
What if the long term forecasts for our domestic crude production turn out to be wrong and foreign suppliers, such as OPEC, beome unreliable suppliers or, worst case, refuse to sell us oil for political reasons . Suppose, in other words, … Continue reading
Shale gas: huge ammonia turnaround
In reporting on the “renaissance” of domestic manufacturing we have not stressed the resurgence of the domestic ammonia industry. Over recent years, fertilizer companies have imported very large amounts of liquid ammonia, as well as solid ammonia-based fertilizers, from countries … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Industry, Manufacturing
Tagged ag chemicals, Clean Energy, natural gas
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Convential energy sources: the obvious future
In my October 2011 post “Future Energy Supply: breakthroughs needed” I included an Energy Information Administration (EIA) energy supply forecast from now through 2035, which showed how difficult it would be for wind, solar, new hydro, geothermal etc to change the fact that the U.S. will, for … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Industry
Tagged Alternative energy, coal, Forecast, natural gas, petroleum
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Cuomo extends fracking moratorium: Not a bad idea!
Natural gas production from the Marcellus shale in upstate New York through the use of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) was halted in 2008 when Governor Patterson, using New York’s Generic Impact Statement (GEIS) established a moratorium as a result of complaints regarding chemicals found … Continue reading
“Digging deeper” into fracking issues
The controversies regarding the use of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling to liberate huge qualitites of natural gas and oil now recoverable from shale formations will not soon go away. And the vigorous opposition to “fracking” should not and will … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Engineering, Energy Industry
Tagged natural gas, petroleum, Technological Risk
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Ethanol from Natural Gas: An obvious move
With corn prices hitting new highs every day because of the nationwide drought and natural gas prices lower than anyone thought they could go and slated to stay low, there is a good reason for the government to change current legislation regarding … Continue reading
Cheap Shale Gas: Multiplier effects
Recently, two domestic chemical companies deeply involved in the chlor-alkali chain agreed to merge their participation in this area to create a formidable competitor in the production of PVC, other chlorine derivatives and caustic soda. In a transaction valued at … Continue reading
Natural gas: Coming transportation fuel
T. Boone Pickens and others have for some time been pushing vigorously for using natural gas to fuel trucks and cars. While Pickens has apparently lost a bundle investing in wind farms, he is definitely onto something here, particulerly since natural gas … Continue reading
