Absolutely. There are a lot of proven reserves that are just not economically recoverable now. But when prices approach $100 again . . . I'd like to see that thread. Is anyone working with carbon fiber technology? Indeed. Finding the optimum balance between import and domestic oil is what I've been saying for a long time. A balance that maintains our reserves while prices are favorable to buy because prices will surely go up. Instead of "Drill, baby drill" it should be "Plan, baby plan".
[HIJACK] It wouldn't surprise me if they were but no solution as of yet that I'm aware of. We're pretty close to getting past this barrier with steel alloys. The tensile strength they want is achievable, but the trick is to be able to apply a coating to the wire without changing the mechanical properties of it, and the coating needs adhere to the substrate without peeling off under stress or when it bends. Hot-dip galvanizing provides a thick protective sacrificial coating but can not be drawn past about 30% reduction, and the heat negatively affects the tensile strength of the wire. Also when they strand these wires the coating can come off because of a brittle inter-metallic zone between the coating and substrate. Electroplating doesn't affect the strength of the wire so much, but it doesn't adhere which means like galvanizing, it will separate from the base metal when bent, stranded, or if they try to draw it down to smaller wire. This is the case with most metallic coating processes like plasma spray coatings, thermal diffusion coatings, etc.. The process we have the patent on doesn't affect the strength of the metal, has no inter-metallic zone, and forms a metallurgical bond between the base and coating. The result is, the coating doesn't peel off when bent, and the wire can be drawn to a smaller diameter if need be without losing the coating. We can also apply coatings at a much faster rate than many other processes. This is important for productivity because if you can coat at a large diameter and reduce it afterward, you can produce more and faster. For instance, 10,000' of 5.5mm rod will yield about 160,000'+ of 1.3mm rod once drawn. If you're processing at 100'/min then you're looking at ~100 min to process it at a larger size, as opposed to 1600 min for the smaller, but longer wire. You just have to put a thick enough coating on the large stock so that once it's drawn, the coating thickness is still sufficient (since it gets reduced in relation to the wire diameter). What it boils down to is, we can get high quality wire-rod stock @ 5.5mm in diameter or so, coat it, and draw it down to 1.3mm or send it to the customer and let them draw it down to the finished size. Currently, they cannot do it like this. They have to coat the finished size which takes longer, and ruins the wire properties for the most part, which causes breakage and ultimately costs more money. [/END HIJACK] Now... where were we?
what the hell is in the tea? North Carolina House candidate alleges White House conspiracy behind BP spill - Yahoo! News
This is new territory for me, but here goes. I agree with the following post...from a poster I nearly NEVER agree with. Not saying I don't like some of the following references, but they should not be the voice for the GOP. You can throw Hannity in there as well. Red nailed it with the "entertainers" tag. HOWEVER---she's right. She's just harsh and tries to force feed everything. No, environmentalists didn't cause the disaster...but the following is dead on...as usual from THIS poster. Please see the following... And I agree wholeheartedly with this one! And he nailed it!
So the environmentalists, who did not build the rig, where not working on the rig, had nothing to do with the rig are to blame, but we should not trust BP? Palin really should go back to Alaska and fish or ski, I grew tired of her before her ticket lost. How she helps the tea party "movement" or the GOP is beyond me.
