Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-03 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:23 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote I thought Wikipedia was consistently wrong about everything and only used by shallow people like me. I go to Wikipedia quite a bit myself but Oh yes, I knew there would be a

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-03 Thread zibblequibble
On Saturday, January 3, 2015 9:29:22 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:23 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everyth...@googlegroups.com javascript: wrote I thought Wikipedia was consistently wrong about everything and only used by shallow people like me.

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-03 Thread meekerdb
On 1/3/2015 1:29 PM, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:23 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote I thought Wikipedia was consistently wrong about everything and only used by

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-03 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:23 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote I thought Wikipedia was consistently wrong about everything and

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-03 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 5:31 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On 1/3/2015 1:29 PM, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jan 2

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-03 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:46 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: And the thought still cracks me up with laughter… imagine how wrong your carefully laid plans could go…. You set up this one way ticket to eternity… then, unfortunately you do not

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-03 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:31 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: If that is the correct way to calculate EROI, and assuming you think the first law of thermodynamics is valid please explain how the EROI of ANYTHING is EVER greater than 1. Perhaps I shouldn't have made that assumption,

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-03 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:26 PM, zibblequib...@gmail.com wrote: jeez...you two are ripping eachother's balls off verbally. How did things get to this? Not I to caste stones in glass houses mind you. Then againI never / have never called anyone names like you two to oneanother here. Yeah

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-03 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 8:42 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:46 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-03 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 9:13 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:31 PM, meekerdb meeke

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-02 Thread zibblequibble
On Friday, January 2, 2015 7:25:15 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everyth...@googlegroups.com javascript: wrote: The big gusher oil wells in Texas, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Mexico had EROI of better than 100:1. The EROI most

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-02 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: 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

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-02 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Friday, January 02, 2015 1:29 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-02 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
believable spark up solar storage. -Original Message- From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, Jan 2, 2015 2:25 pm Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-02 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:01 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: I give you the definition as it is defined in Wikipedia But I thought Wikipedia was consistently wrong about everything and only used by shallow people like me. * EROI* is the

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-02 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: If 50% of the oil in a reserve must be consumed in order to extract the remaining net energy then tell me why should it not be counted as energy invested? Because the last I in EROI stands

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-02 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Friday, January 02, 2015 5:34 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:01 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-02 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2015 1:20 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy Not to beat a dead aardvark, but the oil dudes knocked it out of the park

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-02 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Friday, January 02, 2015 11:25 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-01 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:26 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: You are misrepresenting EROI numbers Let's talk a little about misrepresenting EROI numbers. There is something called the first law of thermodynamics and it says that no process

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2015-01-01 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2015 12:56 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:26 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-31 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 10:55 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:26 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-30 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 12:16 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Look at the history of attempts at kerogen extraction. How did all of these attempts end? None of them could make money off of kerogen if oil was selling at less than $60 a

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-30 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 12:04 PM Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 12:16 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-30 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:26 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Perhaps the existence of this string of failures and no corresponding list of success stories should tell you that maybe, just maybe those 2.5:1 EROI numbers I gave are on the

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-27 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Dec 25, 2014 6:28 pm Subject: RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy I don’t look to the Weekly Standard for energy news or opinion – or any news or opinion

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-27 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: OK Chris, you made some valid points and you've convinced me that I wasn't paying enough care in distinguishing between the very common kerogen oil shale that would need considerable

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-27 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 4:42 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy Understood, but whether its the Huffington Post or the Standard, my question

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-27 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
fallacy From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 4:42 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy Understood, but whether its the Huffington Post or the Standard, my question

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-27 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: OK Chris, you made some valid points and you've convinced me that I

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-27 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
@googlegroups.com] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 12:48 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy Unless there is a technology improvement, the kerogen might stay locked up perpetually, because of the cost of water in the parched western US

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-27 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: A lot of the bets made in the US shale boom are not going to pay off for the investors holding on to the debt; holding those one or two year duration futures hedge contracts priced at $90 a

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-27 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 4:05 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-26 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: DO you even know what the term “tight oil” means technically? Yes. Tight oil is just another name for shale oil, it's light oil in kerogen rich shale deposits that needs hydraulic fracking

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-26 Thread zibblequibble
On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 9:12:09 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everyth...@googlegroups.com javascript: wrote: In the USA oil production rose by more than half a million barrels per day between 2007 and 2011 to the highest

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-26 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: DO you even know what the term “tight oil” means technically? Yes.

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-25 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 1:33 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: I'm sorry Chris but that simply isn't true. Yes the Monterey shale reserve was vastly overestimated, at one time they thought it contained 15.4 billion barrels of oil but the

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-25 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
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RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-25 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2014 8:59 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 1:33 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-25 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy Sent from AOL Mobile Mail In addition to not being the energy future we all wanted, here, to my mind, is the next likely step, by price, by technology, in energy. I don't completely trust the author, but his summary is thorough

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-24 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: the very same EIA that got it so wrong with the Monterey shale deposit reserve projections it made in 2011 Yes they got it wrong with Monterey, estimating reserves isn't easy and is more a

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 10:53 AM Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote:   the very

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-24 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
: 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Dec 24, 2014 2:36 pm Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 12:22 PM Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy It could be a bubble but its not. Nothing has paid off like shale gas. Nothing else

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-24 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: The Monterey reserves as stated by the EIA in their very highly visible projections they made in 2011 accounted for well over 60% of the TOTAL tight oil reserves in the USA I'm sorry

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-24 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
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RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 7:49 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 9:10 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy Sent from AOL Mobile Mail It could be just as you suggest, a chemical

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-23 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: In the USA oil production rose by more than half a million barrels per day between 2007 and 2011 to the highest level in 15 years, and in that same year the USA exported more gasoline and

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-23 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: In the USA oil production rose by more than half a million barrels per day between 2007 and 2011 to the highest level in 15 years, and in

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-23 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:08 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: I was under the mistaken impression that you understood that historically the proven oil reserves of a country have remained about as constant as the New York Stock Exchange, it

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-23 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 8:18 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:08 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-22 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 11:47 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: When the research arm of an investment house is leading the booster charge – “America the Saudi Arabia of Shale” etc. and is knowingly using these false projections What in the

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-22 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 11:46 AM Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 11:47 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-21 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: In depth article in Nature warning against the current unfounded euphoric optimism regarding the scale of the future supply of shale gas (oil). The fact that just 5 years ago NOBODY

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-21 Thread zibblequibble
On Sunday, December 21, 2014 6:40:21 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everyth...@googlegroups.com javascript: wrote: In depth article in Nature warning against the current unfounded euphoric optimism regarding the scale of the

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-21 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of zibblequib...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2014 11:53 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Sunday, December 21, 2014 6:40:21 PM

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-21 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: The fact that just 5 years ago NOBODY predicted the huge increase in oil and gas production that occurred doesn't exactly fill me with confidence that those same experts who got it so wrong 5

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-21 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2014 4:03 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-21 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 , 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: You are out of touch on energy matters my dear fellow. The EIA and even more so many investment houses such as Goldman Sachs for example where making spectacular predictions about the extent

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-21 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2014 7:01 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 , 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything

Re: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-21 Thread LizR
All we know for certain is that oil and gas are finite resources that are damaging the environment. The exact details of how this will play out are uncertain, but we're getting more and more once in a lifetime weather events around the world. -- You received this message because you are

RE: Natural gas: The fracking fallacy

2014-12-20 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
to the full article in the journal Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/natural-gas-the-fracking-fallacy-1.16430 “The main difference between the Texas and EIA forecasts may come down to how fine-grained each assessment is. The EIA breaks up each shale play by county, calculating an average well