I read the link provided by Don, concerning oil shale there was no mention about water requirements (so much for no bias). I did some quick math 1 acre/foot would yield about 4000 barrels of oil.
Thanks for the link to "Plan B" Erik
I realize I'm a little late to the discussion here, but I would suggest you look up Monckton in Wikipedia. The guy is no scientist -- he's a conservative journalist/politician (think Rush Limbaugh). One of the claims he has made about being "peer reviewed" was refuted by the very society he cited. (He also once thought we should force everyone in society to get blood tested every month and lock up/quarantine anyone found to be infected with HiV).
Meanwhile, what can we do? There are a number of good ideas in "Plan B. 3.0". I would encourage y'all to read it.
I recently signed up with Utah Power for enough "green" kilowatt hours to cover my household use, FWIW. It means an extra $17/month, but if in fact they are investing that money in alternative green power I'm willing to pony up a little extra. And I've switched most of my bulbs to CFL's. I'll have to look into the LED's...
--- On Sat, 3/7/09, Josephine Grahn <bsi@xmission.com> wrote:
From: Josephine Grahn <bsi@xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Darn Martians To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 6:34 PM Don, Thank you for the link to Lord Monckton's graph. May I suggest this link for a fuller view of the meaning of the good Lord's graph, and the underlying data?
http://jhubert.livejournal.com/181274.html
Quoting "Don J. Colton" <djcolton@piol.com>:
By all global measures we have had no global warming
for the last seven
years. See
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/monckton-global_warming_has_stopped.pdf
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