3. What other models (or particular aspects of related models) in other industries
can we draw from?
11. What equity issues exist for FA (e.g., small vs large operators, oil vs gas, high-
producing wells vs. “stripper” (low-producing) wells, other?)?
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I'm Bob Armstrong
In 2005 I moved from Lower Manhattan to Teller County
exchanging the industrial marvel of Roebling's Brooklyn Bridge filling
my window for the natural marvel of Pikes Peak .
It is appropriate that the sources of the energy which power our lives
have as small a footprint as possible while productive , and remediate
their environment when no longer economic .
The concern is , because of the anti-scientific demonization
of CO2 , the molecule all life is built on ,
economically sustainable high energy density ,
organic ` earth fuels will be subject to excessive politically
motivated fees and restrictions . The claim that organic CO2 and CH4
detectably effect global temperature fails physics at an undergrad or
even high school AP level . Any politician acting on the basis this
falsehood is guilty of scientific malfeasance .
The problem of orphaned wells appears to be rather minor and generally
well reserved . On the other hand , low energy density wind and solar
industrialize vast landscapes virtually by design .
As John Christy , head of the UAH Earth temperature Sensing satellite system says ,
" If it's not economically sustainable , it's not sustainable " .
Because of vast land requirements , massive reinforced concrete bases
which will be in our ground forever , extreme maintenance costs
and short life times ,
experience around the world is showing that Wind and Solar are not sustainable .
As MIT Professor emeritus Richard Lindzen says :
" What we will be leaving our
grandchildren is not a planet damaged by industrial progress, but a
record of unfathomable silliness as well as a landscape degraded by
rusting wind farms and decaying solar panel arrays. "
When setting rules for bonding the efficient earth energies our
civilization relies on for their end of life remediation , there is a
far greater need for appropriately reserving the far greater
remediation required for the already failing politically driven wind
and solar installations despoiling our landscapes from horizon to
horizon even when contributing their minor bits to our energy needs .
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not punitive
organic energy , Nobody wants to waste methane
Versus Wind and Solar