tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post4470480479251491747..comments2024-03-19T05:47:41.701-04:00Comments on Chemjobber: There's gotta be money to be made hereChemjobberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-14760840663040106052012-11-19T23:36:40.999-05:002012-11-19T23:36:40.999-05:00This is why we're at peak oil. No cheap oil? ...This is why we're at peak oil. No cheap oil? The society we've built around it will collapse. Global trade, energy intensive agriculture and large populations far from arable land (such as the Middle East), will cease to exist, perhaps violently. Alternative energy is the only alternative, which is why it must thrive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-35338459976273718862012-11-19T20:45:00.022-05:002012-11-19T20:45:00.022-05:00Hydrocarbons from fracking are relatively cheap, p...Hydrocarbons from fracking are relatively cheap, particularly the ethane from the natural gas, which is turned into ethylene, from which a wide variety of petrochemicals and polymers are made. However, hydrocarbons from oil sands (the tar sands of Alberta) are relatively expensive because they are expensive to process.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-61663007909147657792012-11-19T11:41:35.688-05:002012-11-19T11:41:35.688-05:00Good question. Some sort of climate change regulat...Good question. Some sort of climate change regulatory regime would dramatically change things for sure. Chemjobberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-73224440689262449672012-11-19T11:39:39.174-05:002012-11-19T11:39:39.174-05:00Related to the final point, what does this mean fo...Related to the final point, what does this mean for biomass utilization? How eager will companies be to invest in things like catalytic fast pyrolysis or lignin utilization if they can get hydrocarbons cheaply from oil sands, etc?tevetorbeshttp://www.twitter.com/tevetorbesnoreply@blogger.com