Re: [Marxism] Bolivian referendum on gas

[Les Schaffer <schaffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nestor Gorojovsky wrote:

> where we have published very important articles by the Bolivian 
> journalist and politician AndrÃs Soliz Rada together with some notes 
> by energy experts in Argentina (among them R-P list member Josà MarÃa 
> Cavalleri).

in connection with the issue of Bolivian gas (google on those keywords
has a lot of stuff on the topic), there is a fairly decent overview of
world energy reserves at Physics Today:

http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-57/iss-7/p47.html

it does hit the population-rise theme hard, but also contains some
interesting reserve tables, see for example this reference:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iea2002/table81.xls

note the prominence of Argentinian and Bolivian reserves. quoting from
the above article:

   "Natural gas. A natural gas shortage exists now in the US. Yet the
   current growth rate of US demand is approaching 3% per year.[2,6] As
   seen in figure 3, the proven US natural gas reserve would last very
   few years, even at constant (year 2000) demand.

   Estimated gas reserves worldwide are relatively large. Geologists
   have good reasons to believe the sum of our reserves and still
   undiscovered (but likely to exist) natural gas could last roughly
   for another 45â60 years (see figure 3).[2,6] However, those reserves
   are widely scattered around the world: 58% are reported to be
   located in Russia, Iran, and Qatar, with small contributions in
   numerous other countries.[2] Clearly, their use will depend on vast
   international and intercontinental transportation by pipelines,
   transoceanic shipment as liquefied natural gas (LNG), or advance
   conversion to liquid fuels. Energy sacrifice by basic thermodynamic
   requirements plus process efficiency loss will accompany advance
   conversion to liquid fuels. Geopolitical cooperation will be essential."


geopolitical cooperation??????  what's dat?????

les schaffer




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