Bella

Quick question for Omon and gunnut..........,"If coal can be crushed and, lets just say, pumped into a jet engine.....can it work???"

kinmist

Yeah.. crush coal and pump it into your everyday SUV. That should solve the dependence on arab-cartelized oil.

Not only that, we need to pump as much greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to counter global cooling.

gunnut

I don't think that'll matter. The earth has gone through a number of ice ages before and it didn't matter what the atmospheric content was. The earth will warm up and the earth will cool down. There's nothing much we can do about it. We're just along for the ride.

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No, actually ... Tenghis field stradles the caspian sea ... could possibly be the biggest highest quality left in the world today.

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That technollogy is being worked on ... as we speak. and yes, It will work. Coal "dust" runs a number(turbines) of major electricity generation plants in Colorado alone. Now. And we aren't running out of coal.

Bella

So........there is a solution!?

omon

caspian sea in alberta canada? hm, intersting.

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omon

i wouldn,t recomend it, even thow it burns clean(much less airborne particles, but you still have ash. plus compression isn,t something that works good with coal powder. plus ignition problems i would suspect.
some ww2 torpedos, had turbine engines that were powered by solid propelant, it worked, as long as you don,t reuse it. iirc it was soviet experimental ones. read it in a book long time ago.

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? ... Kazakhstan ... Good sized impoundment, Not that big.

Ps didn't know about the exsistence of a Caspian in Canada ... free geography lesson ... so, thanks.

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I'm going to guess that there is no SINGLE solution. My bet would be, Oil prices will climb to the point that Many other options gain traction ... It will be uncomfortable. But I doubt we'll be returning to horse and cart ... sticks and rocks yes ... but thats another thread.

omon

dude before replying make sure you understand what you are replying to.
read post no 10 in this thread

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Doesn't Russia have enormous reserves of oil? Is she a part of OPEC? What about Canada's oil reserves in Alberta?
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01-19-2008, 18:22 PM #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by gamercube
Doesn't Russia have enormous reserves of oil? Is she a part of OPEC? What about Canada's oil reserves in Alberta?

aren,t those oil sands?


Curious bit that ... any one want to help me with this boot?

kinmist

That is incorrect on so many different levels. The science behind what drives a jet engine is compeletely different from the one that run turbines in a coal-dust fired plant. Except for using coal dust there is nothing remarkable about that technology : coal is burnt to generate heat, heat turns water to steam, steam turns turbines blades, turbines produce electricity. Burn coal as you may wish, you'd still be left with CO, CO2 emissions and ash.

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You sound quite informed ... by all means, enlighten us.

(see even a dullard such as me self can learn where boots don't belong)