The
“Global Warming” debate finds fundamentally
“A Tale of Two
Cities - For or
Against” attitude. With such a split, don't expect anything to
actually be accomplished
in efforts to
combat what many believe is nothing to worry about and on the other
hand everything to worry about. And
as far as political talking points, “I'll huff and I'll puff and
I'll...sorry out of breath”! Here
is the real take as too why there exists a lackadaisical opinion so
split. Yes,
lackadaisical on both sides of the isle, as regardless of how one
perceives this threat or not, nothing is getting accomplished to
combat the warming trend
“warning”.
Yet, polar
bears continue
to weaken to death
because of “No Ice” and
this is the beginning of the end for many species, except the birds
of prey – those flying high on Wall Street, as it all boils down to
“money” this “Global Warming” debate! And it will remain just
that, a “Debate” and no action taken, said again for a reason.
What is well known finds
the first hand fact not fiction and accepted without friction that
the man-made
“Warming” -
whether a concern or not - is caused by excess
“carbon”
entering the atmosphere and
acting as a “heat trap”,
a byproduct from
the energy we use day-in
day-out
to fuel the
lifestyle
we have come accustomed with. It
is estimated that over 440GigaTonnes(970,000,000,000,000-pounds)
of greenhouse producing gas enters the atmosphere from natural
earthly emissions, like
from plant
matter decaying then
through “photosynthesis” and other processes, it is regurgitated
and made harmless through a clever balancing act. Humans augment that
by an additional 29GigaTonnes, which is not consumed or rendered
harmless by the “natural sickle
cycle”,
so things heat up. Even though what we send aloft is small in
comparison, without a mechanism to render it harmless, we find side
effects
that contribute to abuse upon
the normalcy –
like with the Arctic ice melting away.
See, it has taken many moons for Mother Earth to adjust to her
own comfort level, and then we come along and disrupt things – a
human nature attribute as
we cannot leave well enough alone. So
hold that thought, that the earth is equipped with a mechanism to
“offset” the naturally
occurring greenhouse
gases – so can
we do the same? Not by limiting what we puke into the atmosphere from
the burning of fossil fuels, but by reuse also – wow, what a
concept! Several
years ago there existed an overnight threat that crude oil
exploitation
had reached that plateau, and it would be all down hill from there on
end and in a
matter of 30 to 40-years, we would be broke energy wise. The
world that is! Lights out, or don't start your engines! Yes,
and our nation's
dream of ever
becoming “Energy
Independent”
would be but a dream still. But, as energy
prices started
to escalate so the speculators could prove that Wall Street can
indeed get blood out of a turnip again and again, other recovery
methods to exploit
“stranded” oil and gas pockets saw a revolution and we made it to
the “Independent” status and actually started to export oil, as
we didn't give a
rat's ass about
one day running on empty. Remember,
it is all for the “money” and many believe they can take it with
them to bribe the gatekeeper! And
all this “fracing” is only extending that energy plateau, maybe
by 10-years –
a little blip lift in the decay trend. So
come 2050 or so, we will see “stranded” motorists, gas lines and
a ruptured economy due the fact we are an energy based society and
laughed at a “rainy day” piggy bank fund.
Basically, if we cared about tomorrow and future generations, all
this “fracing” would be for
purposes of a
reserve. We
don't care! And
said again, instead of driving straight ahead on a road of
conservation, we have veered off course and it is drive-baby-drive,
as if we care not if we start to run out of energy derived from crude
oil and natural gas. It is not just the energy from
underground we
use for gasoline and heating our homes that will one day be
quarantined for limited distribution, but it also makes plastics and
other chemicals necessary today for our basic
survival. We
are addicted to this easy energy source! It's
like one day by end of day we
find our nation and the world energy
broke and wake up the next day realizing we must start over in our
fire making efforts! Look, we are a “Hydrocarbon” based baboon
society, just
scratching our ass as we run amuck.
So why so
comfortable this
attitude of not caring about the future with
respect to energy
needs as good things don't last forever?
And through
our continued thirst -
addiction - we keep on sending an over abundance of greenhouse
producing gas aloft, without any concern and continue to piss off the
“White Bear”! Well
this is where the “Truth” about “Global Warming” takes a turn
for the worse...OK,
maybe a happy ending. Don't
think for a single split second that energy giants like EXXON will
ever be but an
historical
memory. As
humans, we continue
to survive on
this earth
because we have easily
accessible sources
of energy, as we still need fire to boil the water for that morning
caffeine rush. Fire,
we use it for almost everything. It heats our homes, cooks
the pizza, it
melts the steel
to build
skyscrapers
and it causes
combustion to accelerate our vehicles and it keeps planes in the sky.
When you are
flying in a plane and look out at the wing mounted engine that seems
so innocent, there's a “Big Fire” going on inside to create
“Thrust”! Fire,
so convenient and that is what makes the “Hydrocarbon” so
desirable, as we have based our existence on it and
it is “Fire Ready” with respect to “Energy”. You
don't get fire from a “Wind Turbine” or hydro-dam directly, those
energy sources
can produce electricity then the electric currents can produce heat.
It's indirect and
renewable but
won't do much wherein “direct fire” is needed - so NO, we will
never see “Electric Planes”. Whereas
crude oil for
instance finds
all the constituents for direct fire, like with methane, propane,
butane and
considered non-renewable – so based on supply & demand theory,
it makes money. And therein exists the bone
of contention, that of the
theory of
“Renewable
verses Non-renewable”. The latter scares the money making rackets,
the reason today “Renewable” energy finds scrutiny, just like
with “Global Warming”. Getting back to that thought held, about
reusing the “carbon” we send aloft by using fossil fuels to get
to work each day. Wow, nature's way our
way also? Yes,
if it can make a “buck”. So,
way back when the
“plateau” was looking like a reality and
serenading the doom & gloom -
that we were starting to run on empty - money
was secretly funded to study what happens when all the oil and gas
disappears. Then what? Fossil
fuels are very simple in the way the atoms are arranged, which
adds simplicity into transforming these chemical
skeletons and
other man-made uses – different liquid fuels to chemicals to
plastics to pharmaceuticals. Basically
made from a defined skeleton of
hydrogen and carbon – chained together to form methane and up the
ladder to say pentane – which is natural gasoline. There
is a field in Alaska that may go into production next year, it is
what geologists
call a retrograde condensate formation - in layman's terms, it can
run your engine as is without any refinement! So
we have
become accustomed to an
energy source
that is somewhat easy to extract along
with the fact it can
be easily manipulated for other purposes to make life comfortable on
earth. If only it were “Renewable” comes
the thought! So
during this “Secret Research”, there existed
a begging question. If we have loads of “hydrogen” -
as it is the
basis of “water” -
and if we found
a readily available
source of
“carbon” then
with our
knowledge of “cracking”, would it be possible to reconstruct and
provide “synthetic” fossil fuels?
Wow, what a concept. But there came a perplexing
problem, as
where does one find a source of “carbon”? How about the
atmosphere, as
every time we light a match, we send carbon into the ether.
So that is where scientist started to concentrate their efforts to
locate a “missing” link to the world's future energy needs – to
find a direct replacement for fossil fuels as our infrastructure
was already based
on that energy source
and changing it
out for something else was not really an option. But
at first glance, there came confusion, as when scientists
sampled the atmosphere, there came a deviation from what one would
expect with the amount of CO2 floating around. See, we know how much
excess CO2 we send aloft through the burning of fossil fuels, we have
a very accurate assessment through knowledge gained over time –
world wide speaking. But when the samples were analyzed, it didn't
compute – what the samples rendered fell short of what was
expected. That perplexed the science community, especially those
working on this “Secret”
project. And that is where they focused their attention as
this proved to be a scientific abnormally that needed an answer.
Then, like a
miracle, the problem was solved. Carbon that was sent aloft by
man-made sources found it behaved differently then the naturally
occurring CO2, as it went
hidden due its
construction.
Some of the research has concluded that only 1/6th
of man-made
greenhouse gases generated
from tailpipes or power-plant stacks went
detected
through global sampling – which meant for every pound humans sent
into the once clear blue sky, 5/6ths
went hidden away
mysteriously – which helped
fuel
the debate over “Global Warming” as inaccurate, as it appeared
our “carbon” was unaccountable through testing. Basically
squeaking, our footprint on earth was different then the footprint in
space! Then the
research paid off as
the so-called “Missing
Carbon” theory had been solved. Yes, the research found that the
carbon was sequestered,
in what is called a “Bucky Ball” - named in honor of Richard
Buckminster
“Bucky”
Fuller. Yes,
this brilliant architect that made famous the importance
of the “Geodesic
Dome” structure
was now at the
center of attention, as the so-called “Bucky Balls” acted as a
cage based on the geometry of a dome, to capture carbon and render it
somewhat
incarcerated. Then
it hit home. If man could capture these so-called “Bucky Balls”,
that much
needed source being
the missing link in
efforts to
fabricate synthetic “fossil fuel”, then
our future energy needs would be fulfilled. And
that research to
capture these “Balls” filled with carbon was
supposedly successful and then over-night the entire project was
shelved. Why so? Think
about it. As “Global Warming” becomes a bigger and bigger
problem, one day the world leaders
will be faced with a dilemma, by making decisions unpopular by
calling for new
forms of energy, not like wind and water, but with sources that also
place controls on greenhouse gases
and when we start retrieving
the “Bucky
Balls” and re-chaining our vehicles...it
means the money will continue to roll on it like it always did, as we
will remain a “Hydrocarbon” based society -
only difference
in round-two a
synthetic society. And even though that sequestered
“carbon” is free-floating in those cages way
up high, it may
someday find legal
ownership
rights, by those that can prove this pollution was their's to begin
with wherein the
capture
by “outlaws” is well, “Outlawed”! Wow,
what an about face on accepting responsibility for
pollution. Bottom-line, energy
trading makes
humongous profits. And in efforts for the giant
energy
conglomeration
to continue its reign to raid that wallet, research must find a
source of energy that is not truly
by definition renewable
but
re-capture-able,
and the only
thing with some semblance of “renewable” will be the continuation
of that monthly
bill they send
us. And
it appears they are already set for the future and
counting their “Bucky Balls” instead of loosing sleep counting
sheep. In a nutshell, take 2-molecules of water along with a molecule
of “Bucky Ball” CO2 recaptured from the atmosphere by a
proprietary process
patented under “Intellectual Property” rights then
send it to a “crack pot” and the result is a synthetic methane
with a few extra “oxygen” atoms to act as an accelerant for near
perfect combustion – Ka ching, and the circle be unbroken!
Richard
Buckminster Fuller famous quotes:
There
is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a
butterfly.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
"Simple WATER"
+
"Bucky Ball CO2"
=
"Synthetic Methane with an Oxygen Accelerant"