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Permalink Reply by Krkyoldhag on January 8, 2012 at 2:55

Yes this is good news.  Thank you for posting it.  I have contacts at WFAA but this needs to go out to the EAST coast more then here in Texas. 

I watched the Rep debate last night and feel more then ever that the "fix" is in.  We get either Romney or Santorium.  The three panelists called on either Romney, Huntsman or Santorum on every question and then let them follow up on the others..Seldom did you even know Gingrich and Perry were even on the stage.

These two would have pushed for energy independence.  Huntsman seems enthralled with China, Romney answers like Jack Kennedy did in his debates..no answer but lots of words so you think he answered, and Santorum...wish he had had his crooked nose fixed before he ran...Paul...I don't know what to think about him. 

But none seem interested in addressing our drilling or lack of drilling here.

The questions were stupid.  Who really cares whether same sex "marriage"  is a state or federal issue or constitutional..yet they asked this over and over and over..of the candidates.."what would you do" and did they think it was constitutional.  I much rather them have asked if they would take over as King or Dictator and pass over the congress.

So the fix is in, we won't become energy independent, and we will continue to go down the tube as a nation.  I can tell you that I spent a LOT of time out of this country and missed being here nearly every minute of that time.  I do not want to live in a "European"  or "Asian" patterned country.  I want to live in the good old USA as the good old USA.

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Permalink Reply by DrWAVeSport Cd1 on January 8, 2012 at 11:02

Great job HANG!

Coal vs Nat Gas...   It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know the difference between the two.  Just try burning some coal for heat in your fireplace.   Then burn nat gas.   Checkmate.  

Reading material I took on plane:  "Earth On Fire" "Thousands of hidden fires smolder and rage through the world's coal deposits, quietly releasing gases that can ruin health, devastate communications, and heat the planet."  written by Kristin Ohlson for Discover Magazine...July/August 2010 

"...America's problem with coal fires is small compared with that of the rest of the world, where untold thousands of coal fires...burn unchecked.  ...Eastern India...sixty-eight of them burn within a 174-square-mile region in the Jharia Coalfield...some right next to areas where (coal) mining families live...  In China, estimates of the amount of coal consumed or made inaccessible by uncontrolled fires runs as high as 200 metric tons per year, 10 percent of the country's total coal production...  Indonesia...a major exporter of coal to the Pacific Rim...has many thousands of coal fires...  Borneo might be as high as 3,000...  'The real number is so astronomical that no one would believe it.'...  The published numbers are about one percent of what could actually be there...  Fires in both abandoned mines and waste piles sometimes start because of a nearby blaze, but they can also ignite through spontaneous combustion:  Certain minerals in coal such as sulfides and pyrites, can oxidize and in the process generate enough heat to cause a fire..."

"At last count, the United States had 112 documented underground (coal) fires, along with many more yet to be counted...  In addition to the underground fires, there are also 93 known surface coal fires, some of them in huge waste piles created during the process of coal mining..."

Ruth Mullins coal fire in Bulan, Kentucky;  48-year old coal mine fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania; three coal fires in the Powder Region Basin of Wyoming...etc., etc., etc.

"Coal and Peat Fires:  A Global Prespective"  first volume was published in 2010. 

I'll take my chances with Nat Gas production! 

DrWAVeSport Cd1 1/8/2012

 

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Permalink Reply by Ewing Walker on January 18, 2012 at 5:03

Folks:

Cornell is called "THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF ITHACA" because the faculty is

anti-business. This study about methane is a joke.  He did it to please his

leftist colleagues.

He got his name in the paper though..... hooray for Prof Horwath.

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