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jkissing on February 6, 2007 - 4:01pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

About 30% of the natural gas produced for lng is consumed to generate the energy to liquify it, trasnport it, and then gasify it. The co2 released during this process is not always considered in the overall co2 calculation.

I too had heard that much ng is released - in the worst way, that is, unburnt - in the production process. Not routinely, I suppose, but when plugged wells leak, etc. In addition, some gas associated with oil production is still flared, and this co2 release is probably not charged against the oil that is later burnt.

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Euan Mearns on February 6, 2007 - 4:20pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Ah - now that's somethings completely different - energy consumption in LNG production and gas flaring - u seen the pictures of gas flaring in Siberia in Gore's book?

But all this is still irrelavnt to my central theme, which is that temperate latitude ethanol seems to be a total waste of time. Our society runs on large surpluss production of energy.

Hat tip to Roel who sent me this a few weeks back:

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/BiofuelsBiodevastationHunger.php

(Chris - you still got to write a post on this one)

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