On Mar 15, 3:55 pm, "Dan Luke" wrote:
"LWG" wrote:
making the earth warmer (which we're not)

sigh

Sorry, I can't let that bald assertion pass.

Why do you believe that? Just because you want to, or do you have empirical
reasons?

but as a matter of national security. We must develop our own oil as
quickly and as thoroughly as possible, and at the same time develop a
replacement for burning oil for personal transportation. We must reduce the
insane outflow of our national wealth to the same people who have sworn to
kill us.

Absolutely. Our national security and economy will both continue to degrade
until we do something real about this.

Among the readily available answers is coal liquefaction for required
IC applications, nuclear power for the electric grid, and greater
efficiencies encouraged by market forces.

There are enough coal and oil shale reserves in the US alone to
provide internal demand needs for 150-500 years (depending on whose
data you apply and the expected consumption rate).

This coupled with Natural Gas reserves provides ample energy though
the next century, with existing technology and counting known
reserves.


Dan Mc