In a message dated 10/15/2012 2:26:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: DD: Dan Dimiduk replies DD: I have noted that there has been a big discovery of offshore natural gas on the East Coast of Africa. I wonder if the development of that basin will have better socioeconomic results than the nightmares of the Nigerian delta. You would think that these countries would learn that in the end, corruption hurts everyone. Then again, we have corruption in this country after 200 years of stable rule, by and for the people. It would be nice to see some of that gas piped into local towns for local benefit and development, sold at a reasonable price to locals. Instead it may all be sold abroad, shipped as LNG, with the benefits only going to the few. Something to watch. I cannot help but think that China developing it's extensive shale gas reserves, could take some of the price pressure off of most globally traded fossil fuels. The problem seems to be they have no infrastructure for gas. I can imagine that just setting up gas turbine generators in the gas fields could take some pressure off of their overworked coal fired grid. They are currently buying coal reserves from everybody, plowing up the earth to keep up. NG powered mass transit could slow the sale of automobiles, reducing oil consumption. Certainly anything that slows the increase in global coal ( or oil) consumption will help the environment. I am encouraged by the fact that an infrastructure developed for NG could also use biogas or producer gas in the future. Here in Ohio, we lead the world with landfill gas being harvested and used locally, or fed into the gas grid where clean enough. Now we find we are also sitting on enough shale gas to power most countries. Good thing the landfill gas was developed when gas prices were high. - Dan D.
Dan, I don't know that it will have much of an impact on stove designers and purveyors for/in developing countries. Even if shale oil and gas were to be found in those regions, the common people in less developed countries usually bear the brunt of the ill effects of the oil industry, without realizing much, if any, benefit. _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list
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