Monday, August 01, 2016
Crude electricity
Bloomberg NYCassholes, discussing the glut of crude oil in Cushing and in 'parked' tankers, asked whether crude could be used to generate electricity. They didn't know.
Shouldn't have been a hard question. Bunker fuel is pretty much the same as unrefined crude, and it powers the giant engines of those same tankers.
Engines designed specifically FOR unrefined crude were common in the oilfields of the '20s.
An ad from 1920 Oil Weekly:
Completing the story for the sake of those Yale-educated Enlightened Progressive NYCassholes:
Electric is made by things called Generators.
Generators have a part in the middle that turns really really fast.
You can make things turn really really fast by connecting them to a thing called an Engine.
The picture shows a thing called an Engine which uses Crude Oil to make it turn really really fast.
Of course you don't need to know about Things, since your armies of Disposable Mexican Servants take care of Lowly Physical Stuff. You only need to know the Duties of NYCassholes, Stealing and Killing and Enslaving.
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In reality, of course, burning crude for this purpose would be dirty and smelly. Lots of REAL pollution, not just Evil KKKarbon. Tankers get away with it because they're licensed in Liberia or Belize and serving China's purposes, but you couldn't and shouldn't do it near a city.
Completing the story for the sake of those Yale-educated Enlightened Progressive NYCassholes:
Electric is made by things called Generators.
Generators have a part in the middle that turns really really fast.
You can make things turn really really fast by connecting them to a thing called an Engine.
The picture shows a thing called an Engine which uses Crude Oil to make it turn really really fast.
Of course you don't need to know about Things, since your armies of Disposable Mexican Servants take care of Lowly Physical Stuff. You only need to know the Duties of NYCassholes, Stealing and Killing and Enslaving.
= = = = =
In reality, of course, burning crude for this purpose would be dirty and smelly. Lots of REAL pollution, not just Evil KKKarbon. Tankers get away with it because they're licensed in Liberia or Belize and serving China's purposes, but you couldn't and shouldn't do it near a city.
Labels: Asked and answered
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