by Oil-Finder » Fri 01 Feb 2008, 03:37:16
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'O')il-Looser you are a damn fool. You are free with your derogatory ad hominems. Doomer WTF etc. I am not a doomer. I have educated myself here and on the Oildrum and have read many many books and articles on petroleum production and geology. I am concerned and I KNOW MORE THAN YOU.
There have been years of discussion about SAGH and THAI and other advanced heavy crude oil production technologies. It is tiring to have you preciously present us with crap that you think is new and exciting, WITHOUT YOU BOTHERING TO DO THE LEAST BIT OF HOMEWORK FOR YOUR EDUCATION.
There is a search button up there above this screen. All you do is press it and then type in THAI or SAGH or tertiary production.
it is tiring re-educating all the newbies who ARE TOO LAZY TO DO THEIR HOMEWORK
Dude, I said it before and I will say it again: I might be new to this forum, but I have been debating and studying these issues for years. In fact, I was educated as a sort-of environmentalist (an urban planner) and believed in limits of growth and all that sort of thing for a very long time. To make a long story short, my transformation came about the exact same way, and for the exact same reason as Bjorn Lomborg.
Your own bias is blantant: You dislike technology, don't trust it, and don't think it ultimately works. This is why you constantly mock people who place any faith in it. This is why you don't believe the technology which is the topic of this thread will work either. And when myself or someone else (in the other thread on this topic) tell you that, yes, in fact it does work and works just fine, and that it almost certainly has a nicely positive EROEI, and seems to be very promising, you scoff at them, call them a techno-lover or some other name. When someone tells you that oil sands have been profitable for years, and currently continue to be profitable, you make up all sorts of excuses as to why these profits are illusory. In brief, any time someone points out that a technology works, you go into denial and the insult machine starts. But I'm sorry to inform you: Technology can - and frequently does - solve problems. The fact that you are discussing these issues on a computer, posting things over a network spanning the globe, is but one piece of evidence that technology works. I'm sorry if it does not appeal to your aesthetic sensibilities, you'll just have to get used to it.