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Why Would a Middle Eastern Kingdom be Funding a British Climate Research Business?- WAS The failings of the lauded "peer review"
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:23:59 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote: "Bill Noble" wrote in message ... top posted this does not ring true - have you ever been in Oman? in the early 70s, the country had 7 miles total of paved roads, no real schools, and the sultan had orders out to shoot on sight anyone seen out after dark not carrying a lantern. This is not the kind of country that would look forward 40 years and say "oh, some time in the future we will have natural gas without carbon dioxide, so if we fund a british research institution to say that CO2 is bad, we will make lots of money" - no, it doesn't pass the giggle test It may be the dumbest conspiracy theory we've ever seen here, and that's saying something. g Delingpole is a novelist and sometime journalist who runs a notorious warming-conspiracy kitchen in which he cooks up some bizarro stuff. If you read this one carefully, you have the coal companies and the Middle East oil companies conspiring to promote gas and nuclear. Whoopie! Where are the wood-pellet interests in this? They must be somewhere. Or maybe it's the makers of silicon ingots....d8-) CO2 is quite often found in association with natural gas and since gas is sold essentially based on BTU content the removal of CO2 from the produced gas is a normal part of gas processing. The process is not a new one and it is hardly uncommon. CO2 when combined with water forms an acid and pipeline operators are always concerned about any percentage of CO2 in a shipped gas which will cause deterioration of their pipeline. In addition CO2 is a salable product in itself thus separation and separate sale of CO2 is economically logical. Regards, J.B. |
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Why Would a Middle Eastern Kingdom be Funding a British Climate Research Business?- WAS The failings of the lauded "peer review"
wrote in message ... On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:23:59 -0500, "Ed Huntress" wrote: "Bill Noble" wrote in message ... top posted this does not ring true - have you ever been in Oman? in the early 70s, the country had 7 miles total of paved roads, no real schools, and the sultan had orders out to shoot on sight anyone seen out after dark not carrying a lantern. This is not the kind of country that would look forward 40 years and say "oh, some time in the future we will have natural gas without carbon dioxide, so if we fund a british research institution to say that CO2 is bad, we will make lots of money" - no, it doesn't pass the giggle test It may be the dumbest conspiracy theory we've ever seen here, and that's saying something. g Delingpole is a novelist and sometime journalist who runs a notorious warming-conspiracy kitchen in which he cooks up some bizarro stuff. If you read this one carefully, you have the coal companies and the Middle East oil companies conspiring to promote gas and nuclear. Whoopie! Where are the wood-pellet interests in this? They must be somewhere. Or maybe it's the makers of silicon ingots....d8-) CO2 is quite often found in association with natural gas and since gas is sold essentially based on BTU content the removal of CO2 from the produced gas is a normal part of gas processing. The process is not a new one and it is hardly uncommon. CO2 when combined with water forms an acid and pipeline operators are always concerned about any percentage of CO2 in a shipped gas which will cause deterioration of their pipeline. In addition CO2 is a salable product in itself thus separation and separate sale of CO2 is economically logical. Regards, J.B. Uh, Ok. I've having trouble keeping up. Does this add to or subtract from the conspiracy theory? Or is it an interesting aside? -- Ed Huntress |
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Why Would a Middle Eastern Kingdom be Funding a British Climate Research Business?- WAS The failings of the lauded "peer review"
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:41:12 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote: wrote in message .. . On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:23:59 -0500, "Ed Huntress" wrote: "Bill Noble" wrote in message ... top posted this does not ring true - have you ever been in Oman? in the early 70s, the country had 7 miles total of paved roads, no real schools, and the sultan had orders out to shoot on sight anyone seen out after dark not carrying a lantern. This is not the kind of country that would look forward 40 years and say "oh, some time in the future we will have natural gas without carbon dioxide, so if we fund a british research institution to say that CO2 is bad, we will make lots of money" - no, it doesn't pass the giggle test It may be the dumbest conspiracy theory we've ever seen here, and that's saying something. g Delingpole is a novelist and sometime journalist who runs a notorious warming-conspiracy kitchen in which he cooks up some bizarro stuff. If you read this one carefully, you have the coal companies and the Middle East oil companies conspiring to promote gas and nuclear. Whoopie! Where are the wood-pellet interests in this? They must be somewhere. Or maybe it's the makers of silicon ingots....d8-) CO2 is quite often found in association with natural gas and since gas is sold essentially based on BTU content the removal of CO2 from the produced gas is a normal part of gas processing. The process is not a new one and it is hardly uncommon. CO2 when combined with water forms an acid and pipeline operators are always concerned about any percentage of CO2 in a shipped gas which will cause deterioration of their pipeline. In addition CO2 is a salable product in itself thus separation and separate sale of CO2 is economically logical. Regards, J.B. Uh, Ok. I've having trouble keeping up. Does this add to or subtract from the conspiracy theory? Or is it an interesting aside? A comment on the "low CO2 content natural gas" that was mentioned. Regards, J.B. |
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