Guest LC wrote:YOu could put windmills in the barren windswept Mid-West at 1000 / sq mile. The plains have about 2 million square miles. So there's ample room. Not all great wind sites, but ample room. The problem is shipping it to Chicago/St. Louis/ etc. There aren't any transmission lines near there. But they could be built.
V.B. Price: A slick slope
Unending oil binge, economic hubris may doom us yet
By V.B. Price / Tribune Columnist
May 28, 2005
Let's say we really are facing what urban critic James Howard Kunstler calls "The Long Emergency," when plentiful oil begins to dwindle and prices go beyond the bounds of wanton and undisciplined spending that booming growth requires.
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We know Australians have been making gasoline from coal since World War II and that shale oil in vast quantities exists in the Green River Valley of Wyoming.
Dan1195 wrote:I have been wondering, since I believe CTL is about the only halfway feasible source as a replacement for oil in the medium term, about the max rate of production and/or rate of increase in production that could be achieved when "push comes to shove" as it were. For purpose of this discussion I am ignoring potential eviro impacts and how expensive it would be.
I am assuming that since the US has large coal reserves production could be ramped up. I am unclear at what rate though (i.e could it replace the decline in oil production after peak). This rate of increase and the max. production rate surely is not representative of a hubbert curve as it relates to reserves, since it has to be mined. There may be 100+ years ot coal reserves left, but your problebly not going to get 20 mbd of liquid out. Anyone seen any estimate on this?
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