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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:07:42 -0700
From: James Swayze <>
Subject: Fuel for the fire, both for debate and literally
http://www.nanonewsnet.com/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=5&pid=1498
Digital Gas Joins Quanta Consortium to Build Two 400-Megawatt
Waste-to-Energy Plants in Taiwan
By: Admin (Admin) 2004.09.16
Digital Gas, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets: DIGG) Digital Gas announced today
that its subsidiary, Digital Energy & Farming Asia LLC ("DEFA"), has
signed an agreement to join the Quanta Energy Environment Consortium,
which has received approval from the Taiwan Government to build two
400-MW waste-to-energy plants in Taiwan.........
.......The waste-to-energy plants will employ a waste-processing
technology that converts municipal, industrial, and residential waste
streams to a by-product that, when burned, is not only environmentally
clean and safe, but is 50-80% more efficient than burning conventional
RDF.[cont.]
Ok, I suppose I should comment. There's been plenty of discussion about
waning oil reserves and opposing opinions that it's not a problem
because things such as the above will slowly take the place of oil.
Both sides are true. Oil will be replaced. Oil *IS* at peak and industry
insiders know so. In fact a little known tidbit of the flap over the
current Bush administration's gaff for outing one of our CIA operatives
is that she was in place to gather information on what the Saudis
actually have for reserves and aren't being public with the information.
Why? Terrorism that's why. And Why terrorism? I'll elaborate. The true
cost of our dependence upon oil is our being a target for terrorists,
specifically Muslim and more specifically Saudis. Why? Because John Q.
Mohammad and friends have come to the realization that they've been
played and they're not happy about it. The Saudi government cannot
afford to let the cat out of the bag and become a greater target than
we. We're an easy target but their real enemy is the Royal Saudi
government. They attack us for supporting the Saudi government that
allowed us [anyone not them] to drain their lands dry. Why are they
angry with their own government? Because the greater amount of all the
wealth has been sequestered to the few family members of the royal
family mostly and it all came from oil and now guess what? It's running
out! John Q. Mohammad is left thinking, "What about me, my future, my
plans, my family?". I'm not condoning their actions against us, not at
all! They are seriously misguided, even psychopathic, surely sociopathic
and these are the fault again of their government for blindly supporting
the Madras's that teach hate for the west. It's a Machiavellian ploy but
it's begun to unravel. The Saudi government tried to place the heat, the
blame on the west for 'taking all the oil', thus feebly trying to divert
attention away from their own excesses and hoarding of all the wealth
and plunder of all their only real resource. But for cripes sake! We're
only customers! Free market and all that, right? If we weren't buying it
someone else would. Don't think for a second that JQM cares a jot about
the finer points of global economy and free market enterprise.
All they see is too many people getting nothing back from what they see
as exploitation from the west and now we even threaten to get out of the
oil business with them leaving them high and dry. Angry at us? You bet.
Rightfully so? Not on your life, but try explaining that to someone
that's been brainwashed their entire lives to blame the west for all the
wrongs of their whore mongering drunken party going jet set
thousand-and-one royal princes throwing their oil money away on very
much *not* Islamic endeavors. It's no wonder really that they've glommed
onto their new religion, more strict -- a reaction to the excesses of
the royal family -- and back to the fundamentals which is what a lot of
people do when placed in duress. Knowing no better they appeal to gawd
and thinking they've done wrong, for how could such bad things happen to
them if not that they are to blame for some sin and so back to appeasing
said phantom with a push toward uberdiscipline.
Sure we'll find alternatives to the ever waning oil. We'll have to
because it *is* ever waning. And really come-on is anyone really buying
that a *finite resource* is not under pressure of running out just
because better and better ways of refining it or better ways to conserve
it continue to squeeze the most that is possible from it? It's a finite
resource! No amount of fancy math is going to make it magically forever
spring forth like a magic oil pool. It, that which is in the ground,
cannot last forever, unless we've totally missed some geologic
replenishment mechanism, I doubt that though... at least not one
available for exploitation on the time scales we are using it up. It may
be that methane ice very plentiful in the sea is subducted into the
plate-tectonic motion to get further heated and squeezed into crude but
that's not likely happening fast enough to be useful.
The price we'll pay is in lives lost to continued wars over that
resource and let's not kid ourselves the war in Iraq though first most
likely a diversion away from blaming the Saudis for 9/11 it still is a
war over that resource. Every skirmish we'll enter into from here out
over Islamic terrorism will be about that resource at the bottom of it
all for the reasons I've stated above.
My greatest worry its that it will and must become a global conflict as
in WWIII and someone is going to get nuked, I hope it is not us,
actually I hope no one even the enemies die of such a thing. But the
weapons are there and the mad temptation is to use them. The loss of the
Soviet Union did us no favors whatsoever, wish that they were still
strong and all their nukes safely in their hands and at the old standoff
with us. At least we knew where they were and who and where the enemy
was. Now who knows where they all are? I am tempted to speculate on what
might could be but I'll refrain from it. I don't even want to think
about that awful prospect.
James S.
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