This completed the decay of a multi-national/ethnic empire into a country of one acknowledged ethnicity that used deportation, killing, and genocide.
I'd call it ethnic cleansing, except I consider ethnic cleansing a euphemism, even double-speak.
If the Haredim are Jews and not Israelites, (4:26), then why are they voting and serving in the Israeli Parliament? If some one says he is not an Israeli, then he should refuse money from the Israeli state.
There is more to figuring out the CO2 output of natural gas than simply looking at the generating plants.
First, as Mr. Cole points out, their is the cost of water. Clean water is valuable; not much work has been done on the economics of it. The following is a link to a beginning: Valuing Ground Water: Economic Concepts and Approaches (Free Executive Summary) http://www.nap.edu/catalog/5498.html
It takes a lot of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon based energy to extract natural gas.
Then, there is the CO2 cost of the sand proppant. In one town in Wisconsin along the Mississippi, there is an average of one diesel truck every 15 seconds hauling sand through towns. Also, there is a CO2 cost for bulldozing forests and farm fields that would normally absorb CO2. Then there is the CO2 cost of washing and drying the sand-the drying and processing plants use huge amounts of electricity, which is produced from plants that give off lots of CO2.
The hidden CO2 costs of natural gas from hydro-fracking probably make it as bad as coal, once you add up everything.
And, most natural gas is processed at refineries on or near the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas, because the refineries are placed near ports.
The Japanese had the calamity of Fukushima. Louisiana already was devastated by Katrina, which was only a cat 3 hurricane.
1 bad hurricane, wiping out just one of these refineries, and there will be an enormous spike in natural gas prices. When that hurricane hits, no one knows. It will come. New Orleans and Galveston know about it.
Have we learned anything?
This completed the decay of a multi-national/ethnic empire into a country of one acknowledged ethnicity that used deportation, killing, and genocide.
I'd call it ethnic cleansing, except I consider ethnic cleansing a euphemism, even double-speak.
If the Haredim are Jews and not Israelites, (4:26), then why are they voting and serving in the Israeli Parliament? If some one says he is not an Israeli, then he should refuse money from the Israeli state.
There is more to figuring out the CO2 output of natural gas than simply looking at the generating plants.
First, as Mr. Cole points out, their is the cost of water. Clean water is valuable; not much work has been done on the economics of it. The following is a link to a beginning: Valuing Ground Water: Economic Concepts and Approaches (Free Executive Summary) http://www.nap.edu/catalog/5498.html
It takes a lot of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon based energy to extract natural gas.
Then, there is the CO2 cost of the sand proppant. In one town in Wisconsin along the Mississippi, there is an average of one diesel truck every 15 seconds hauling sand through towns. Also, there is a CO2 cost for bulldozing forests and farm fields that would normally absorb CO2. Then there is the CO2 cost of washing and drying the sand-the drying and processing plants use huge amounts of electricity, which is produced from plants that give off lots of CO2.
The hidden CO2 costs of natural gas from hydro-fracking probably make it as bad as coal, once you add up everything.
And, most natural gas is processed at refineries on or near the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas, because the refineries are placed near ports.
The Japanese had the calamity of Fukushima. Louisiana already was devastated by Katrina, which was only a cat 3 hurricane.
1 bad hurricane, wiping out just one of these refineries, and there will be an enormous spike in natural gas prices. When that hurricane hits, no one knows. It will come. New Orleans and Galveston know about it.
Have we learned anything?