HRH Prince William and other interested persons,
It is my uncomfortable duty to suggest that liquid fuel refined from oil is
a vital component of world trade, mechanized farming, heavy goods transport,
plus rapid deployment of military, technical, and humanitarian personnel and
high value cargo by air. We are ill advised to abandon oil production or to mandate
conversion to alternative motor fuels. Bio diesel is not clean tech. All
efforts to produce fuel from blue green algae proved to be prohibitively
costly. Gas-to-liquid processes are likewise wasteful, and in the modern
context it is foolish to divert natural gas necessary for all-weather
generation of electricity and low cost heating. Fuel cells are weak and heavy. Oil
powers 95% of transport.
Electrification of transport is not a full solution. I will attach a
research document on critical elements, the compelling message of which is
resource nationalism and soaring consumption of rare earth metals required in
modern electric vehicles, wind turbines, and solar panels. Formerly abundant supply
of tin, lead, zinc, cadmium, platinum group metals, dysprosium, and silver are becoming geologically
scarce.
I am particularly concerned about oil production. All of the easy plays
have been exploited, produced, refined, and consumed. Horizontal fracturing of
oily shales is costly and dirty. Tar sands are infinitely worse, an
environmental disaster at Fort McMurray. Remaining crude oil potential is
mainly offshore in deepwater plays that are too far from markets to justify
pipe laying for transport of associated natural gas which always occurs in oil
production. I raise this matter to discuss "flaring" of gas and
highly volatile natural gas liquids, which is wasteful and a direct
contribution to global warming that the World Bank has endeavored to halt. I
developed a simple method of converting flared gas to sea ice, briefly sketched
in another attachment hereto. Flared gas in Nigeria could be converted to
electricity by substituting a generator instead of a compressor. The strategic
goal is to husband energy instead of wasting it.
Thank you for encouraging novel solutions. In the distant future, hydrogen
motors and liquid fluoride thorium nuclear power are promising technologies
that deserve your support. My efforts are short term, easily deployed
improvements to make offshore oil platforms net contributors to oceanic cooling.
Respectfully submitted
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The royal imbecile handed out £5 million in prizes for bullshit, futzing
with land use in Costa Rica and a bleached coral reef in Oz. Prize contest
closed.
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