On Friday, January 2, 2015 7:25:15 PM UTC, John Clark wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015  'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List <
> [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
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> > The big gusher oil wells in Texas, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Mexico had EROI 
> of better than 100:1.
>
> The EROI most certainly was not 100, not if you include the internal 
> energy of the crude oil as part of the cost of investment, it would ALWAYS 
> be less than one; of course only a fool or a liar would include the 
> internal energy of the crude oil as part of the cost of the investment, but 
> you and your environmental buddies do it for Kerogen so why not do it for 
> crude oil too? There are only 2 reasons I can think of for not doing that, 
> integrity and brains. 
>  
>
>> > you libertarian moron.
>>
>
> Opinions differ on the moron part but I am certainly a libertarian. Do you 
> have a problem with that?  
>
>>
>> >> And there is also something called the second  law of thermodynamics 
>>> and if you use that too you can ensure that the EROI never even gets as 
>>> high as 1, it's always less, and so nothing, absolutely positively nothing, 
>>> is worth doing. That's all you need to come up with EROI numbers that are 
>>> always as low as you want them to be. Well.., you need one other thing, a 
>>> desire to deceive. 
>>>
>>  
>>
>  > Show me an actual commercially producing shale oil operation?
>>
> I will just as soon as you show me a place where oil can be sold for more 
> than $120 a barrel. I don't dispute that with oil selling as cheaply as it 
> is today it's not economical with existing technology, but to say as you do 
> that it will never be economical no matter how high oil sells for flies in 
> the face of reality.
>
>  > Screw those BS numbers.
>>
>
> Yes screw Wikipedia and everybody else,  believe in Chris de Morsella's 
> prejudices.   
>
> > In 1982 Exxon threw in the towel after dumping some $5 billion down the 
>> shale oil money pit.
>>
> In 1837 Charles Babbage used 1837 technology to try to make the first 
> fully programmable digital computer, but after dumping the equivalent of 
> many millions of dollars into that money pit he threw in the towel. In 2015 
> people use 2015 technology and can make computers successfully. In 1982 
> Exxon was using 1982 technology, today they use 2015 technology.   
>
>  > John I don’t think you understand how EROI numbers are produced
>>
>
> I understand it one hell of a lot better than you do. First you say the 
> true EROI numbers are 2.5:1 but that was inconsistent with everything you 
> were saying, when I pointed this out you correct that to 1:2.5, but nobody 
> familiar with EROI would state it that way, they'd say .4:1. Never mind 
> that even your room temperature IQ environmental buddies would say it's 2 
> not .4, my point is that even your erroneous information is stated in a 
> ignorant manner.  
>
> > or what they seek to measure.
>>
>  
> When you or environmental morons generate EROI numbers they don't measure 
> anything at all except the magnitude of the desire to deceive, the lower 
> the number the greater the deception. 
>
> > I suggest you read Charles Hall’s seminal work on EROI to get a more in 
>> depth understanding.
>>
>
> Why on earth would I follow a recommendation of yours about EROI when 
> you've demonstrated not just ignorance but dishonesty on this subject? By 
> now we both know that a EROI figure of .4 for Kerogen is bullshit, and yet 
> you continue to try to convince people of it. 
>
> >> ive seconds is all it takes to prove that you're dead wrong. I was 
>>> wrong a while back and when it became clear to me that I had made a mistake 
>>> I admitted it, do you have the intellectual courage to do the same thing?
>>>
>> > Yeah right LOL -- Mr. Wikipedia. You have not proved anything.
>>
>
> Well I've certainly proved one thing, I've proved that Mr. Chris de 
> Morsella is a intellectual coward incapable of admitting he's wrong even 
> when it's clear as a bell that he is. 
>
>   John K Clark
>

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