Lithium & Helium

[jazz]

Here is a good news story for those who think its all about oil here.

They found lithium in the Leduc wells and are now promptly going after it.

And Helium in the SW sk gas wells, just happens to be a world shortage.

https://business.financialpost.com/business/local-business/alberta-oilfields-could-give-rise-to-homegrown-lithium-industry-as-electric-cars-spur-global-demand/wcm/b7bbb195-a77d-4ffa-a58e-6597083352d4 Alberta oilfields could give rise to lithium industry fuelled by electric cars

https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2020/01/06/helium-the-new-oil-for-western-canada/ Helium: the new ‘oil’ for western Canada

[furrowtickler]

Here is a good news story for those who think its all about oil here.

They found lithium in the Leduc wells and are now promptly going after it.

And Helium in the SW sk gas wells, just happens to be a world shortage.

https://business.financialpost.com/business/local-business/alberta-oilfields-could-give-rise-to-homegrown-lithium-industry-as-electric-cars-spur-global-demand/wcm/b7bbb195-a77d-4ffa-a58e-6597083352d4 Alberta oilfields could give rise to lithium industry fuelled by electric cars

https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2020/01/06/helium-the-new-oil-for-western-canada/ Helium: the new ‘oil’ for western Canada

Liberals and enviro whackos will try to stop it

[jazz]

Interesting, some subsurface drilling rights just sold off in Sask to look for lithium. Its right there in old wells and as a byproduct of potash production.

Sorry Mr Trudeau, we still win the resource game no matter how hard you try to shut us down.

https://www.jwnenergy.com/article/2020/1/saskatchewan-sells-five-blocks-rights-brine-minerals-including-lithium/ Saskatchewan sells five blocks of rights for brine minerals, including lithium

if lithium is to be developed in Saskatchewan, it would be coming from brine underground. Sayeed noted that there are several sources of brine in Saskatchewan, including oil and gas wells and prairie evaporite (potash) production. Both have lithium as a dissolved solid.
“The idea is to extract lithium from the brine,” he said.

[TASFarms]

Interesting, some subsurface drilling rights just sold off in Sask to look for lithium. Its right there in old wells and as a byproduct of potash production.

Sorry Mr Trudeau, we still win the resource game no matter how hard you try to shut us down.

https://www.jwnenergy.com/article/2020/1/saskatchewan-sells-five-blocks-rights-brine-minerals-including-lithium/ Saskatchewan sells five blocks of rights for brine minerals, including lithium

if lithium is to be developed in Saskatchewan, it would be coming from brine underground. Sayeed noted that there are several sources of brine in Saskatchewan, including oil and gas wells and prairie evaporite (potash) production. Both have lithium as a dissolved solid.
“The idea is to extract lithium from the brine,” he said.

There is probably some uranium in it to.

[bucket]

Should be a nice research subsidy built into it .....just to get things started...

[mustardman]

Actually the ‘enviro crowd is IN Favour of this

[bucket]

Begs the question. ....what's the difference between drilling for oil or drilling for helium....

[mustardman]

Begs the question. ....what's the difference between drilling for oil or drilling for helium....

Lithium is needed for Electric vehicles

[jazz]

Begs the question. ....what's the difference between drilling for oil or drilling for helium....

Wells are already drilling, mines already opened, so much lower cost to produce, much lower environmental footprint. Guess the oil companies paid for that part already, but they will get zero credit and a lot of hate anyway.

[WiltonRanch]

I wonder if they found any helium
3 lol. Think MRI machines need helium and it in short supply. I got the impression as the helium tanks you buy for kids balloons at Walmart have gotten smaller and the helium is cut with other gasses as the floating properties suck. My opinion if the stuff is that short for necessities like medical imaging then hell with balloons

[furrowtickler]

Lithium is needed for Electric vehicles

And diesel fuel is needed for your tractors, combines, sprayers, swathers, grain trucks and the vast transportation network desperately needed to move our exports via trains, trucks and ships . And will be for a very very long time.
So it’s a win win , and the push to shut down oil is ridiculous .

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Lithium is needed for Electric vehicles

No, not really, there are alternative battery technologies that don't use Li, that could be used, and previously were used, Li based batteries just happen to be the best option currently.

But you can't build an electric vehicle without fossil fuels and all of the associated petrochemicals, not to mention the fact that almost all the energy to power electric vehicles comes from fossil fuels.

[WiltonRanch]

Petroleum isn’t going away anytime soon. Even if every passenger vehicle went electric it would be lucky to cut demand in half. Until a substitute for plastics, asphalt, heavy transportation, and agriculture is found there will be demand. What I see coming is a major switch to LNG for power generation, ocean shipping; two major users of energy. Puts it in perspective with Russia and Quatar having the worlds largest reserves of the stuff. If predictions on population decline and urbanization come to fruition then general demand for energy in general will fall by the end of this century. I’d hate to know how much electricity is used up for computers and keyboard warriors. 😝

[jazz]

And diesel fuel is needed for your tractors, combines, sprayers, swathers, grain trucks and the vast transportation network desperately needed to move our exports via trains, trucks and ships . And will be for a very very long time.
So it’s a win win , and the push to shut down oil is ridiculous .

And hydrogen will be the big energy source for intensive applications like ag manufacturing air travel and that will be extracted from oil not water.

Resource industry has a long bright future in western Canada if it had just an ounce of support.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Petroleum isn’t going away anytime soon. Even if every passenger vehicle went electric it would be lucky to cut demand in half. Until a substitute for plastics, asphalt, heavy transportation, and agriculture is found there will be demand. What I see coming is a major switch to LNG for power generation, ocean shipping; two major users of energy. Puts it in perspective with Russia and Quatar having the worlds largest reserves of the stuff. If predictions on population decline and urbanization come to fruition then general demand for energy in general will fall by the end of this century. I’d hate to know how much electricity is used up for computers and keyboard warriors. 😝

Google has the answer:

the world's data centres alone will devour up to 651 terawatt-hours of electricity in the next year. That's nearly as much electricity as Canada's entire energy sector produces.

If every passenger and light vehicle in the world switched to electric, and assuming that all of that electricity was produced by other than fossil fuel( Nuclear), it would cut world fossil fuel demand by 10%. The transport sector amounts to 25% of world energy(all energy, not just fossil fuel), and of the 25%, 40% of that is passenger and light vehicles.