Comments on: Investigative Journalists Take Issue with IER Analysis of Recent Energy Report http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/12/16/investigative-journalists-take-issue-with-ier-analysis-of-recent-energy-report/ for the well-being of mankind Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:55:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: admin http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/12/16/investigative-journalists-take-issue-with-ier-analysis-of-recent-energy-report/comment-page-1/#comment-2218 admin Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:37:44 +0000 http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/?p=4716#comment-2218 89 wind turbines per mile from the Texas-Mexican border to the Maine-Canada border (assuming that the GOM coastline is 1680 miles). http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/04/06/salazar-announces-east-coast-windmills-could-provide-100-percent-nations-electricity/ 89 wind turbines per mile from the Texas-Mexican border to the Maine-Canada border (assuming that the GOM coastline is 1680 miles).

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]]> By: Francis M. Hughes http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/12/16/investigative-journalists-take-issue-with-ier-analysis-of-recent-energy-report/comment-page-1/#comment-2192 Francis M. Hughes Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:29:51 +0000 http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/?p=4716#comment-2192 Congratulations on your website; you do a fantastic job. The U.S. Department of Energy published a similar estimate as IER in their 2009 Annual Energy Outlook for future U.S. energy -- stating that 79 percent of that energy would be provided by fossil fuels in 2030. Perhaps our Grand Leader needs to put his imprimatur on the forecast for the greenies to accept, what is to them, a dreaded notion. I have read your comments on Interior Secretary's fantasy of offshore wind power along the entire east coast. I use your estimates and comments whenever I write about the inadequacies of wind power as an alternative to fossil fuels. Since the Gulf of Mexico coastline is 1680 miles by itself, it is obviously not included in your calculations. Do you have any numbers on the number of bird guillotines per mile that would blight the coastline if the GOM were included? When much of the public didn't buy the risk to beaches of offshore Florida oil drilling, Senator Bill Nelson reached deep into his bag of tricks to claim that a handful of rigs spread over the vast eastern Gulf would threaten military operations and training. That has since been disproven by an independent study, but what is mind boggling is the Senator's silence on Salazar's fantasy of 172 wind turbines per mile of coastline as a threat to military operations and training. I would appreciate any info you might have if the GOM was included. Thanks. Congratulations on your website; you do a fantastic job.
The U.S. Department of Energy published a similar estimate as IER in their 2009 Annual Energy Outlook for future U.S. energy — stating that
79 percent of that energy would be provided by fossil fuels in 2030. Perhaps our Grand Leader needs to put his imprimatur on the forecast for the greenies to accept, what is to them, a dreaded notion.
I have read your comments on Interior Secretary’s fantasy of offshore wind power along the entire east coast. I use your estimates and comments whenever I write about the inadequacies of wind power as an alternative to fossil fuels. Since the Gulf of Mexico coastline is 1680 miles by itself, it is obviously not included in your calculations. Do you have any numbers on the number of bird guillotines per mile that would blight the coastline if the GOM were included?
When much of the public didn’t buy the risk to beaches of offshore Florida oil drilling, Senator Bill Nelson reached deep into his bag of tricks to claim that a handful of rigs spread over the vast eastern Gulf would threaten military operations and training. That has since been disproven by an independent study, but what is mind boggling is the Senator’s silence on Salazar’s fantasy of 172 wind turbines per mile of coastline as a threat to military operations and training.
I would appreciate any info you might have if the GOM was included. Thanks.

]]> By: Marc Zimmerman http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/12/16/investigative-journalists-take-issue-with-ier-analysis-of-recent-energy-report/comment-page-1/#comment-2085 Marc Zimmerman Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:25:43 +0000 http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/?p=4716#comment-2085 Hello: I heard a commentator claim recently that if we in the U.S. totaled up all domestic reserves of coal, gas, shale, and oil, no country in the world would have more of these assets. Is this accurate? Do you know the source for this assertion? I am a college instructor and would like to use this piece of information, if it is accurate. Thank you. Marc Zimmerman Vancouver, WA Hello:

I heard a commentator claim recently that if we in the U.S. totaled up all domestic reserves of coal, gas, shale, and oil, no country in the world would have more of these assets. Is this accurate? Do you know the source for this assertion?

I am a college instructor and would like to use this piece of information, if it is accurate.

Thank you.

Marc Zimmerman
Vancouver, WA

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