[vampyregirl]

Here are some ongoing energy projects. the ones I am allowed to talk about. I hope someone finds this post informative.

Alternative and renewable energy:
) Royal Dutch Shell and CHOREN are building the first full scale BTL plant. The plant which is being built in Freiberg Germany is scheduled to come online later this year. The Biomass To Liquids plant uses Shell's SMDS technology to produce gas from wood chips, creating a synthetic fuel known as Sundiesel. It is identical to GTL, Gas To Liquids made from natural gas which is currently used in Asia to power civic transport vehicles and will soon be widely sold in Europe for private vehicles.
BTL could reduce CO2 emissions by 90%. German automakers Volkswagon and Mercedes, who are shareholders in CHOREN along with Shell have successfully tested Sundiesel. Once large scale production begins in Europe there are interested parties in the US where the next BTL plant could be built.

Also in Germany Shell and Saint Gobain Glass Deutschland have formed a joint venture company, Avancis, to produce new thin film tech solar panels. These new panels don't require silicon and are more affordable than current solar panels. The panels will be made with CIS (copper indium diselenide) technology.

Shell and Luminant plan to build the largest wind farm in the United States. The farm which will be built in the Texas panhandle will produce 3000 megawatts.

Shell's Egmond aan Zee offshore wind farm in the North Sea is currently producing enough electricity to power 100,000 Dutch homes.

Shell and HR Biopetroleum are building a pilot facility in Hawaii to grow marine algae to produce vegetable oil for conversion into biofuel. The site is near existing commercial algae enterprises which grow algae for pharmacutical and nutrition industries.

Shell is a partner is the proposed London Array wind farm, a proposed offshore wind farm with 341 turbines that could power 750k homes in Britain.

Shell hydrogen fueling stations have opened in White Plains, New York and in Shanghai China. Hydrogen is made on site so there is no need for deliveries. 30kg of hydrogen stored at facility.

Natural Gas:
( Pearl GTL plant in Quatar will be completed by next year. Will produce 260k bpd of Syndiesel for the European market. This new GTL plant will be much larger than the Shell GTL plant in Malaysia which produces Syndiesel and clean burning aviation fuel for Asian markets.

The Named field in the Eastern Meditteranean could produce an additional 75k bpd for European market. Also Indian Gas Authority Limited has bought into Named so they can have there own LNG to burn in Indian power plants.

Also four new natural gas fields have been discovered in Egypt's Western Desert, in Shell's Badr El Din concession.

Japanese Mitsui and Mitsubishi are shareholders in Sakhalin Energy in order to secure there own LNG. The Sakhalin2 project is developing new oil and gas fields off Siberian coast. The partners in Sakhalin Energy are Gazprom 50% Royal Dutch Shell 27.5% Mitsui 12.5% Mitsubishi 10%
It is the largest integrated oil and gas project currently under development.

Australian Northwest Shelf venture under development. Shell has contracted LNG buyers in Asia and North America from Australian venture.

Shell China named operator of a Coalbed Methane project in China. Still in testing stages to determine economic potential.

Crude oil:
) Shell and BP expanding Na Kita project in Gulf of Mexico.
Astokhskove oil field being developed as part of Sakhalin project.
A shell rig recently made a deep water find in Eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Shell and ConocoPhillips have entered into agreement for oil exploration off the Malaysian coast.

That is all for now, i might post more later

[FreakOil]

Would you mind telling me about Shell's project to reduce population and end the perpetual growth economy? The last thing I want are new sources of energy that allow us to keep those two things going so we can continue trashing the planet.

[vampyregirl]

Tell you what FreakOil I will buy you a plane ticket to Africa or new Guinea so you can live like a stinkin savage in the jungle for the rest of your days. That is what you modern world haters want isn't it?

[joewp]

O, "stinkin savage", huh? Not too desperate to keep the fossil fuel gravy train going for just a little longer, are we? In case you didn't know, your ancestors were "stinkin savages", v-girl, and your descendants will be too.

Words to the wise: The haughtier they come, the harder they fall.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vampyregirl', 'T')ell you what FreakOil I will buy you a plane ticket to Africa or new Guinea so you can live like a stinkin savage in the jungle for the rest of your days.

[vampyregirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vampyregirl', 'T')ell you what FreakOil I will buy you a plane ticket to Africa or new Guinea so you can live like a stinkin savage in the jungle for the rest of your days.

[FreakOil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vampyregirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vampyregirl', 'T')ell you what FreakOil I will buy you a plane ticket to Africa or new Guinea so you can live like a stinkin savage in the jungle for the rest of your days.

[vampyregirl]

This is a bit off topic but runaway economic growth as you call it began in the nineteenth century with what we call the Industrial Revolution.
Up until 1820 or so world economic growth was pretty stagnant.
Then came the steam engine. It powered factory machinery enabling mass production on a scale never seen before. Steam engine locomotives and ships allowed people and materials to be transported faster than ever possible before.
Also high speed communication was developed begining with the telegraph wire. The combination of high speed manufacturing, transport and communication enabled commerce to flow more smoothly than ever before and led to unprecedented creation of wealth.
And it went on from there. The internal combustion engine, the telephone, the airplane, the internet etc.
Today the world GDP is growing at $15 trillion a year.
According to Forbes the wealthiest 1 billion people live mostly in North America, Western Europe and Japan. The poorest one billion people live mainly in Africa and India.
These poorest of the poor are still living in the 16th century from an economic standpoint. Many people in Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe etc are still living in the early nineteenth century economically speaking.
The explosion of economic growth was created by innovation in transport and communication and remains so today. There is no stopping it unless you want to go back in time. Understand?

[seldom_seen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vampyregirl', 'T')here is no stopping it unless you want to go back in time. Understand?

[vampyregirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vampyregirl', ' '). . . blah blah blah . . . etc. . . The explosion of economic growth was created by innovation in transport and communication and remains so today. There is no stopping it unless you want to go back in time. Understand?

[vampyregirl]

I wasn't lying when i said Sundiesel has been successfully tested in Europe. Feel free to google it along with Egmond van Zee if you want. By 2010 we will see major new technology changes in the energy field and the auto industry. And more after that.
Keep in mind the steam engine wasn't taken to seriously when it was first introduced in the late 1700s and the ICE was scoffed at when it was first introduced.

[FreakOil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vampyregirl', 'T')his is a bit off topic but runaway economic growth as you call it began in the nineteenth century with what we call the Industrial Revolution.
Up until 1820 or so world economic growth was pretty stagnant.
Then came the steam engine. It powered factory machinery enabling mass production on a scale never seen before. Steam engine locomotives and ships allowed people and materials to be transported faster than ever possible before.
Also high speed communication was developed begining with the telegraph wire. The combination of high speed manufacturing, transport and communication enabled commerce to flow more smoothly than ever before and led to unprecedented creation of wealth.
And it went on from there. The internal combustion engine, the telephone, the airplane, the internet etc.
Today the world GDP is growing at $15 trillion a year.
According to Forbes the wealthiest 1 billion people live mostly in North America, Western Europe and Japan. The poorest one billion people live mainly in Africa and India.
These poorest of the poor are still living in the 16th century from an economic standpoint. Many people in Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe etc are still living in the early nineteenth century economically speaking.
The explosion of economic growth was created by innovation in transport and communication and remains so today. There is no stopping it unless you want to go back in time. Understand?

[vampyregirl]

http://sustainabilityreport.shell.com/s ... ychallenge

I see your point Freak but do check this out and see if any of your concerns are being addressed.
also www.choren.com
www.biofuelsforum.com
www.shell.com/hydrogen
www.shell.com/wind

[mos6507]

I think this is more of what he had in mind:

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/

[FreakOil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'I') think this is more of what he had in mind:

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/