LENR: clean and very cheap energy

So you noticed the uptick in Oil Sands propaganda, huh? I have been bombarding them with comments about this revolutionary clean and very cheap energy technology that will cause Oil Sand investors to lose their shirts.

There is a new clean energy technology that is 1/10th the cost of any other energy technology. Don’t believe me? Watch this video by a Nobel prize winner in physics: http://pesn.com/2011/06/23/9501856_Nobel_laureate_touts_E-Cat_cold_fusion/

Still don’t believe me? It convinced the Swedish Skeptics Society: http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3144827.ece

LENR using nickel. Incredibly: Ni+H+K2CO3(heated under pressure)=Cu+lots of heat. Here is a detailed description of the device and formula from a US government contract: www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/GernertNnascenthyd.pdf

Still don’t believe me? A major US corporation has bought the rights to sell the 1 megawatt Rossi E-Cat, and it will be announced late October in the US, with the unit hitting the market in November. How can any fossil fuel compete with such cheap energy (and clean to boot!).

By the way, here is a current survey of all the companies that are bringing LENR to commercialization: http://www.cleantechblog.com/2011/08/the-new-breed-of-energy-catalyzers-ready-for-commercialization.html

I don't think it's the Tar Sands, Norman,

that has changed the meaning of being Canadian. I think it is the participation, under the NATO fig leaf, in the bombing of Libya.

Quite a Shallow Comment...

This comment from Dan:

I am not blaming all baby boomers per se but they sure had it all, destroyed it all and now do not want to pay for any of it from environment to healthcare..I blame their parents for raising spoiled greedy kids and whose kids now (baby boomer kids) are the same...they made the world a greedy selfish place, especially in the so called west.

I'm not sure how old you are, or where you grew up. I grew up in a small town in BC and am now pushing half a century. My mother was one of the first boomers and I am one of the last, depending on which range of bb's you use. Your comment is incredibly simplistic and shallow. My parents both worked hard, never wasted a thing, saved their money, didn't buy junk, AND they supported groups, political parties and activities which would assist others and the world. They didn't drive needlessly or buy fancy cars. Most people we knew didn't have a big choice in jobs and worked what was there in the small town - not sure you can entirely blame people for taking jobs available/offered by our economy which the world and the country allow. PLUS, our neighbours were very similar. Us kids didn't get everything and I abide by the same frugal rules today - who can afford not to? My family IS willing to pay for health care and look after the environment. We want someone to represent us who feels the same way.

The problem is that we don't have that many choices that make a big difference in the world. Unfortunately, in many cases, it is the government that must regulate in order to make the big changes. Case in point: plastic bags. Who would have thought we would stop using them? It happened quickly after we were told we had to pay for them and when municipalities banned the big green plastic ones. Same with plastic bottles.

The baby boomers did not have it all or destroy it all. The REAL people didn't. Who did? That's for another analysis. Throw in big companies and the greedy people who want people to buy all of the poisonous junk. Unethical programming in movies and TV - continuous messaging about consumerism and nothing about compassion to your neighbours.
Politicians who have been bought out or are so ideologically driven and we have no control over their decisions partly because they are so hidden in bafflegab.

Anyways, Dan - boomers are a HUGE part of the population. I think you need to define who you mean a lot better. Life wasn't so perfect for all of them.

mopled

Thanks for adding to the list of negative reasons for advancing more tar sands production.

Aboriginal issues as well as GHG emissions are in the same boat together and not separate.

In regards to using steam to remove the tar sands from the ground, usually referred to as SAGD or steam assisted gravity drainage, one must ask the question: How is the steam produced?

Large amounts of natural gas and water (that becomes steam when heated in large boilers on site of each SAGD development) are needed. Steam processes to remove the bitumen may seem benign, after all steam is just water heated and expanded and produces no GHG emissions. But given the amount of natural gas needed to produce the steam one has to re-adjust ones position.

Some SAGD operations use synthetic gas to fuel the boilers to produce steam however these gases are derived from upgrading the tar sands on site and may release more GHG's than natural gas. One can expect this synthetic gas to have methane, hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide as just part of its emissions.

The energy used as a percentage of the energy produced from SAGD ranges from 25-30%. Hardly efficient.

One also has to remember that once the tar sands are removed from the ground either through open pit mining or through the SAGD process they must be upgraded which also produces its fair share of GHG emissions. At many times during the day, both Suncor and Syncrude upgrading operations have stacks belching out flames and during upset conditions, a common occurrence, all stacks on site can be seen flaring as if Hell itself has broken through the crust of the earth.

In addition, a large amount of energy is needed during the upgrading process which again is either produced from generating electricity through natural gas or coal fired power boilers on site or in coal rich areas of Alberta.

Given that gas reserves have peaked the tar sand industry is looking at other means to produce energy to remove energy (tar sands) from the ground. One alternative being considered is nuclear power. This alternative is still far off in the distance and the process to get a nuke plant up and running takes at least a decade and $10 billion.

Finite resources should not be wasted and should be reserved for aspects of our economy that produce the best returns. Using fossil fuels in automobiles is not the best return. When governments get serious about dealing with this crisis we may find ourselves living a much different life. Can't wait.

Ezra Levant

If Ezra is such a booster for tar sands then perhaps he could move his lazy ass to Fort McMurray and get himself a room in camp and live there for 6 months making a living from his labour rather than his mouth.

"Ethicaloil" is a sick joke.

Ezra Levant and Alykhan Velshi are hypocrites and con-artists. They must think we're all stupid. Any reasonably informed person knows that China, one of the world's worst violators of human rights, is a key investor in Alberta's oil sands.