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16 comments on The Bullroarer - Saturday 13 July 2008

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thirra on July 12, 2008 - 10:01pm

I see there is more cornucopian trash in the MSM about shale oil.
Big Gav,how about getting somebody knowledgeable to do an article on this.In my opinion the whole process,from go to woe,is an abomination.
Re the Hyundai LNG-hybrid article - this states that Australia has an extensive LNG network.
This may be true to some extent with pipelines but using LNG as a transport fuel requires a large network of refill stations and I haven't seen much evidence of that unless LPG facilities can be converted.Is that possible?
Thanks for doing the hard yards in getting The Bullroarer online although it doesn't seem to be attracting many comments at this stage.It is a valuable resource.

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Boof on July 12, 2008 - 11:46pm

I see Honda's home refuelling system takes 16 hours to fill the tank
http://automobiles.honda.com/civic-gx/refueling.aspx
Not cheap I believe.

An advantage to sticking with methane-dominant gas is switching between CSM, LNG, NG, biogas and some forms of syngas.

On 'special' disposal methods I bought something from Australia Post and at the same time handed in several printer cartridges for disposal as per a prominent sign. I got the 'are you for real?' stare.

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Big Gav on July 13, 2008 - 7:17am

I've done 2 posts on shale oil in the past (though I don't claim to be an expert). In the absence of any large scale production anywhere I can't think that there is much more to be said.

http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2005/08/question-of-shale.html
http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2007/12/queensland-shale-oil-billions-in....

Re the Hyundai, you are misreading LNG - it is LPG, not LNG. LPG is a liquid byproduct of gas production - its not that difficult to distribute, and you can already find it at many petrol stations. Lots of taxis use it.

No worries about the Bullroarer - its educational filtering the news regularly to see what is being reported (and thanks to Phil and aeldric for sharing the load).

Comments (and links to other articles you find) are always welcome but I don't judge the value of posts by how many comments they get.

Its sitemeter that really tells the tale of whether or not people find the content here useful or interesting :-)

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