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Remember back in 2001 when BP went "Beyond Petroleum"? It was a brilliant marketing campaign, but it had less to do with changing the company's business model than positioning Lord John Browne as the Teflon oil executive. All but a tiny fraction of BP's revenue came, and still comes, from oil. So how should we take the spate of new green announcements from the world's major oil firms? In July, ExxonMobil announced big plans to grow green algae to fuel cars; last week, Chevron unveiled the world's largest carbon-sequestration project in Australia; and in recent months, Valero, Marathon, and Sunoco carried out a series of acquisitions that resulted in Big Oil controlling 7 percent of the U.S. ethanol business.
Big Oil Goes Green
Seeded on Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:11 AM EDT
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There is something that came out in this article that I've never thought of .
The oil industry is one of the biggest users of energy.Now their looking fro ways to reduce
their consumption of energy .
There are several areas ,I've thought of where there might be large savings .
With the new cap and trade bill ,and the reduction of emissions.
The first thing that cough my eye is Ethanol .Why is the oil industry buying any of it ?
The answer is simple .It's a very clean burning fuel ,very ,very low emissions .
Why would you want to burn it in cars and trucks ? When you could burn it industrially.
Ship it direct in high volume.
Hydrogen has been looked at in all the wrong ways .
Those people that you think are nuts .The people that are producing hydrogen on demand ,under their hood .Don't see they are ahead of the curve.Again why would you want to use Hydrogen on cars and trucks ?
I've known about and understood how electrolysis worked for 50 years. Getting hydrogen out of water .Why try and make hydrogen and transport it,then try and store it .
I'm not a chemist ,so someone tell me.With the right amount of hydrogen added to say a boiler would it not be very clean burning ? Here's another chemistry question .Could steam be charged with D/C current to produce Hydrogen?
I've left out quit a bit ,on purpose
I've just dropped a ton of bricks on you to think about .
I've just touch on a couple of things .There is so much more.
RON
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#2 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:59 PM EDTThose people that you think are nuts .The people that are producing hydrogen on demand ,under their hood
I don't necessarily think they are nuts, I just think most of them are ignorant of the laws of physics, and the rest of them are nuts.
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