X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from imr-da03.mx.aol.com ([205.188.105.145] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4c2k) with ESMTP id 4862024 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:10:20 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.188.105.145; envelope-from=Bktrub@aol.com Received: from imo-da02.mx.aol.com (imo-da02.mx.aol.com [205.188.169.200]) by imr-da03.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p1BF9cFI018193 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:09:38 -0500 Received: from Bktrub@aol.com by imo-da02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.9.) id q.eb7.7280bf0 (56031) for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:09:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtprly-mc02.mx.aol.com (smtprly-mc02.mx.aol.com [64.12.95.98]) by cia-md08.mx.aol.com (v129.7) with ESMTP id MAILCIAMD085-d3cf4d5551263ac; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:09:31 -0500 Received: from webmail-m001 (webmail-m001.sim.aol.com [64.12.101.83]) by smtprly-mc02.mx.aol.com (v129.8) with ESMTP id MAILSMTPRLYMC021-d3cf4d5551263ac; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:09:26 -0500 References: To: flyrotary@lancaironline.net Subject: EC2/ Tracy Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:09:26 -0500 X-AOL-IP: 74.110.91.118 In-Reply-To: X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI MIME-Version: 1.0 From: bktrub@aol.com X-MB-Message-Type: User Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="--------MB_8CD9814CE950AA8_BEC_1FD5B_webmail-m001.sysops.aol.com" X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 33222-STANDARD Received: from 74.110.91.118 by webmail-m001.sysops.aol.com (64.12.101.83) with HTTP (WebMailUI); Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:09:26 -0500 Message-Id: <8CD9814CE8DE682-BEC-CB96@webmail-m001.sysops.aol.com> X-Spam-Flag:NO X-AOL-SENDER: Bktrub@aol.com ----------MB_8CD9814CE950AA8_BEC_1FD5B_webmail-m001.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I didn't run out of injector setting range, but am very close. My edit pag= e bar graph is pretty much ony one or two lines high for most of the Map= table. I'm also down to values around -120 for most of the addresses. I= thought about setting mode 3 a bit lower.Iif so, and I then go back and= re-tune it to the aproximate fuel/air settings I have now, does it change= the bar graph and the values at each address? Say, for instance, MAP address 80 shows a setting of -118, and only one li= ne on the bar graph. If I lower the injector setting in mode 3 and re-tune= to the same mixture setting, will the setting be higher than -118 and wil= l the bar graph be higher? It would be nicer to be closer to the middle va= lues, rather then the bottom (-127) or top (+127), so I have more adjustab= ility in the future if I were to need it for some reason. Even though it= runs nicely now, i'm still up around 8 "o"s on the horizontal mixture gra= ph.=20 Brian Trubee -----Original Message----- From: Tracy To: Rotary motors in aircraft Sent: Fri, Feb 11, 2011 6:38 am Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Replaced Tension Bolt, Oil Seal, Thrust Bearing= ... back ... turns out it was running really rich on the factory EC2 settings. I went= to auto tune and the injector settings went way down, all the way up and= down the map table. Glad you got it running better Brian. When you run into the situation yo= u mentioned above, the first thing you should do is adjust the Injector Fl= ow Rate (Mode 3). That will adjust the mixture at ALL throttle settings= and is a lot easier than resetting the entire MAP Table. But as long as= you don't run out of range on the MAP Table adjustments, what you did wil= l work OK. Tracy On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:06 PM, wrote: And on to brighter news. I went out today, did some tuning on my plane, tu= rns out it was running really rich on the factory EC2 settings. I went to= auto tune and the injector settings went way down, all the way up and dow= n the map table. Had to do a little fine tuning, and especially at the sta= ging point, had to richen it up there, at bin # 84. I would have taken it= up for a flight, but had other appointments. It was a glorious day for fl= ying, but a test will have to wait for the next nice day here in Seattle.P= revious flights went OK until just after takeoff, then the engine would su= rge and backfire, getting the attention of all witnesses within a mile or= two. I can imagine that they were all mentally formulating what they were= going to say to the FAA investigation team. I was starting to question my= decision to go rotary, but now have a renewed sense of confidence in the= installation. =20 Temperature today was around 50 degrees, even with extended running on the= ground at full throttle, temps maxed out at 145 and148 for oil and coola= nt respectively. Throttling back to 16 inches of MP got the temps running= around 125. Going to wait until summer to close up my cooling inlets a li= ttle. =20 Brian Trubee -----Original Message----- From: bktrub@aol.com To: Rotary motors in aircraft Sent: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 4:50 pm Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Replaced Tension Bolt, Oil Seal, Thrust Bearing= ... back ... Hmm, send money overseas for their oil so that we can increase our trade= deficit and fund all sorts of socially constipated cultures who might be= hostile to our own, or keep the money here and employ americans? That's= a real head scratcher there. I've got some of the mineral rights in the= Bakken, due to some forward thinking ranch owning ancestors, so you can= imagine what my feelings on this are.=20 =20 New Drilling Method Opens Vast U.S. Oil Fields Published February 10, 2011 | Associated Press A new drilling technique is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-re= ach oil in the western United States, helping reverse a two-decade decline= in domestic production of crude. Companies are investing billions of dollars to get at oil deposits scatter= ed across North Dakota, Colorado, Texas and California. By 2015, oil execu= tives and analysts say, the new fields could yield as much as 2 million ba= rrels of oil a day -- more than the entire Gulf of Mexico produces now. This new drilling is expected to raise U.S. production by at least 20 perc= ent over the next five years. And within 10 years, it could help reduce oi= l imports by more than half, advancing a goal that has long eluded policym= akers. "That's a significant contribution to energy security," says Ed Morse, hea= d of commodities research at Credit Suisse. Oil engineers are applying what critics say is an environmentally question= able method developed in recent years to tap natural gas trapped in underg= round shale. They drill down and horizontally into the rock, then pump wat= er, sand and chemicals into the hole to crack the shale and allow gas to= flow up. Because oil molecules are sticky and larger than gas molecules, engineers= thought the process wouldn't work to squeeze oil out fast enough to make= it economical. But drillers learned how to increase the number of cracks= in the rock and use different chemicals to free up oil at low cost. "We'v= e completely transformed the natural gas industry, and I wouldn't be surpr= ised if we transform the oil business in the next few years too," says Aub= rey McClendon, chief executive of Chesapeake Energy, which is using the te= chnique. Petroleum engineers first used the method in 2007 to unlock oil from a 25,= 000-square-mile formation under North Dakota and Montana known as the Bakk= en. Production there rose 50 percent in just the past year, to 458,000 bar= rels a day, according to Bentek Energy, an energy analysis firm. It was first thought that the Bakken was unique. Then drillers tapped oil= in a shale formation under South Texas called the Eagle Ford. Drilling pe= rmits in the region grew 11-fold last year. Now newer fields are showing promise, including the Niobrara, which stretc= hes under Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas; the Leonard, in New Mexi= co and Texas; and the Monterey, in California. "It's only been fleshed out over the last 12 months just how consequential= this can be," says Mark Papa, chief executive of EOG Resources, the compa= ny that first used horizontal drilling to tap shale oil. "And there will= be several additional plays that will come about in the next 12 to 18 mon= ths. We're not done yet." Environmentalists fear that fluids or wastewater from the process, called= hydraulic fracturing, could pollute drinking water supplies. The Environm= ental Protection Agency is now studying its safety in shale drilling. The= agency studied use of the process in shallower drilling operations in 200= 4 and found that it was safe. In the Bakken formation, production is rising so fast there is no space in= pipelines to bring the oil to market. Instead, it is being transported to= refineries by rail and truck. Drilling companies have had to erect camps= to house workers. Unemployment in North Dakota has fallen to the lowest level in the nation,= 3.8 percent -- less than half the national rate of 9 percent. The influx= of mostly male workers to the region has left local men lamenting a lack= of women. Convenience stores are struggling to keep shelves stocked with= food. The Bakken and the Eagle Ford are each expected to ultimately produce 4 bi= llion barrels of oil. That would make them the fifth- and sixth-biggest oi= l fields ever discovered in the United States. The top four are Prudhoe Ba= y in Alaska, Spraberry Trend in West Texas, the East Texas Oilfield and th= e Kuparuk Field in Alaska. The fields are attracting billions of dollars of investment from foreign= oil giants like Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Norway's Statoil, and also from= the smaller U.S. drillers who developed the new techniques like Chesapeak= e, EOG Resources and Occidental Petroleum. Last month China's state-owned oil company CNOOC agreed to pay Chesapeake= $570 million for a one-third stake in a drilling project in the Niobrara.= This followed a $1 billion deal in October between the two companies on= a project in the Eagle Ford. With oil prices high and natural-gas prices low, profit margins from produ= cing oil from shale are much higher than for gas. Also, drilling for shale= oil is not dependent on high oil prices. Papa says this oil is cheaper to= tap than the oil in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico or in Canada's= oil sands. The country's shale oil resources aren't nearly as big as the country's sh= ale gas resources. Drillers have unlocked decades' worth of natural gas,= an abundance of supply that may keep prices low for years. U.S. shale oil= on the other hand will only supply one to two percent of world consumptio= n by 2015, not nearly enough to affect prices. Still, a surge in production last year from the Bakken helped U.S. oil pro= duction grow for the second year in a row, after 23 years of decline. This= during a year when drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the nation's biggest= oil-producing region, was halted after the BP oil spill. U.S. oil production climbed steadily through most of the last century and= reached a peak of 9.6 million barrels per day in 1970. The decline since= was slowed by new production in Alaska in the 1980s and in the Gulf of Me= xico more recently. But by 2008, production had fallen to 5 million barrel= s per day. Within five years, analysts and executives predict, the newly unlocked fie= lds are expected to produce 1 million to 2 million barrels of oil per day,= enough to boost U.S. production 20 percent to 40 percent. The U.S. Energy= Information Administration estimates production will grow a more modest= 500,000 barrels per day. By 2020, oil imports could be slashed by as much as 60 percent, according= to Credit Suisse's Morse, who is counting on Gulf oil production to rise= and on U.S. gasoline demand to fall. At today's oil prices of roughly $90 per barrel, slashing imports that muc= h would save the U.S. $175 billion a year. Last year, when oil averaged $7= 8 per barrel, the U.S. sent $260 billion overseas for crude, accounting fo= r nearly half the country's $500 billion trade deficit. "We have redefined how to look for oil and gas," says Rehan Rashid, an ana= lyst at FBR Capital Markets. "The implications are major for the nation." Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/10/new-drilling-method-opens-= vast-oil-fields/#ixzz1DZa3M891 -----Original Message----- From: hoursaway1@comcast.net To: Rotary motors in aircraft Sent: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 4:26 pm Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Replaced Tension Bolt, Oil Seal, Thrust Bearing= ... back ... All this was said 40 years ago. """We will be out of oil in twenty years= """ Coffee is bad for you""" now coffee is good for you & we have more oi= l than anyone ever dreamed available + being used many times more efficien= tly, the """ones in the know ...do not know!!!! But they can predict the= weather 50 years from now. David R. Cook RV6A = Rotary -4 deg. F. Lansing MI. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Staten" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:15:02 AM Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Replaced Tension Bolt, Oil Seal, Thrust Bearing= ... back ... Well, I can agree with Lynn for one thing.. Carter was 2nd worst president= ever.... (After Bush 43)... :P =20 Ethanol in fuel was never about efficiency. NEVER. It was about replacing= a very toxic oxygenate (MTBE) with something cleaner burning and less tox= ic. Lead in aviation fuel will go the same way.. its inevitable. One plant= makes the lead that goes in it. They go tits up and the 25 percent of the= aviation fleet that burns 75 percent of the leaded avgas will be knee-cap= ped brutally.=20 =20 Biofuel is not exclusively ethanol. Its also HYDROCARBONS synthesized or= processed from living matter, as opposed to fossil fuels naturally develo= ped from long dead matter. Its bacteria in a digester/reactor with a feeds= tock and a product stream. Ethanol is in cars to reduce smog.. nothing mor= e. Biofuels in aircraft do not necessarily have to include ethanol (but it= could).=20 =20 Ifwe dont start doing more than paying lip service to preserving our envir= onment, we will have the worlds best military protecting the worlds larges= t ecological wasteland.=20 =20 As long as we are overly dependent on fossil fuels, we will be subject to= the foreign policy of others. Biofuels, Nuclear, Solar, Wind, Hydroelectr= ic... all things that need to be developed further. And if we wait until= its too late to transition, our worlds best military will be reduced to= throwing rocks and writing nasty letters, because our turbine powered pla= nes and tanks dont run on good intentions.=20 Personally... if we have to burn oil... Why burn mine (ours) when I can bu= rn yours (theirs).. =20 I'm not hardly a hairy, stoned, tree hugging hippie, but I do recognize th= eir point.. =20 Dave =20 =20 On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:24 PM, wrote: Lynn for President,,,,,,,,,,( might be in central FL this winter, will con= tact, stop & say hi ) David R. Cook RV6A Rotary. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lehanover@aol.com To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 1:39:57 PM Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Replaced Tension Bolt, Oil Seal, Thrust Bearing= ... back ... In a message dated 2/9/2011 12:02:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jwhaley@d= atacast.com writes: Interesting enough, though the scary part is there=E2=80=99s no mention in= the text of AVGAS or GAS =E2=80=A6 only the subject uses the term AVGAS. The text body uses the terms =E2=80=9Cunleaded, sustainable general aviati= on fuel, credible renewable, unleaded fuel, 'green' fuel and the exclusive= use of biofuel in air show performances." I fear this is another attempt= to push ETHANOL or heavy ethanol-blended fuel. Jeff=20 If you take away government subsidies from the green fuel tree hugger play= . Gasohol would be gone in a month. It takes almost a gallon of fuel to pr= oduce a gallon of gasohol. You have to boil it. It is made just like Jack= Danials. =20 It is the biggest victory of form over function ever imagined by mankind. =20 The farmers love it because they save money as the kernel quality is lower= , and the water content is higher, and they get government money. The gove= rnment pays the oil companies to use it. The oil companies get to displace= actual gasoline with the crap for even more profits, and the user pays al= l of them extra in taxes so you can get 30% less mileage and performance.= But wait...........there's more.........Plus the better corn not now bein= g grown for feed stock plastics and human consumption has boosted the pric= e of that corn. So the farmer profits again. The beef man looses his a__,= and you pay even higher beef, pork and poultry prices in addition the tax= es that support this house of cards. When beef prices get high enough, dai= ry herds are thinned at higher rates (younger) and milk production drops.= Milk prices go up.=20 =20 What to do?=20 =20 Send the entire energy department home. Established in 75 to eliminate our= dependence on offshore oil.=20 =20 Eliminate all farm subsidies. Phase out oil imports to zero over the next= 7 years. Drill here. Drill now.=20 =20 We can be cut off at the knees and turned into a 3rd world country by the= towel heads who hate us. If you don't remember the oil crisis of 74 under= the (Now) second worst president in this country's history, Jimmy Carter,= Look it up. Long lines on odd license number days, or even license number= days for 10 gallons of fuel.=20 =20 The worlds strongest military reduced to writing nasty letters?????=20 =20 If the tree huggers want to live in mud huts, smoke dope, and use gasohol= let them pay for it with their money not mine. =20 Look up Bakken oil formation. =20 Lynn E. Hanover=20 =3D ----------MB_8CD9814CE950AA8_BEC_1FD5B_webmail-m001.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
I didn't run out of injec= tor setting range, but am very close. My edit page bar graph is= pretty much ony one or two lines high for most of the Map table= . I'm also down to values around -120 for most of the addresses. I th= ought about setting mode 3 a bit lower.Iif so, and I then go back and re-t= une it to the aproximate fuel/air settings I have now, does it change the= bar graph and the values at each address?
 
Say, for instance, MAP address 80 shows a setting of -118, and= only one line on the bar graph. If I lower the injector setting in mode= 3 and re-tune to the same mixture setting, will the setting be higher tha= n -118 and will the bar graph be higher? It would be nicer to be closer to= the middle values, rather then the bottom (-127) or top (+127), so I have= more adjustability in the future if I were to need it for some reason. Ev= en though it runs nicely now, i'm still up around 8 "o"s on the horizontal= mixture graph.
 
Brian Trubee


-----Original Message-----
From: Tracy <tracy@rotaryaviation.com>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Fri, Feb 11, 2011 6:38 am
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Replaced Tension Bolt, Oil Seal, Thrust Bearing= ... back ...

turns out it was running really rich on the factory EC2 settings. I went= to auto tune and the injector settings went way down, all the way up and= down the map table.

Glad you got it running better Brian.   When you run into the si= tuation you mentioned above, the first thing you should do is adjust the= Injector Flow Rate (Mode 3).  That will adjust the mixture at ALL th= rottle settings and is a lot easier than resetting the entire MAP Table.&n= bsp; But as long as you don't run out of range on the MAP Table adjustment= s, what you did will work OK.

Tracy


On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:06 PM, = <bktrub@aol.com> wrote:=
And on to brighter news.= I went out today, did some tuning on my plane, turns out it was running= really rich on the factory EC2 settings. I went to auto tune and the inje= ctor settings went way down, all the way up and down the map table. Had to= do a little fine tuning, and especially at the staging point, had to rich= en it up there, at bin # 84. I would have taken it up for a flight, but ha= d other appointments. It was a glorious day for flying, but a test wi= ll have to wait for the next nice day here in Seattle.Previous flights wen= t OK until just after takeoff, then the engine would surge and backfire,= getting the attention of all witnesses within a mile or two. I can imagin= e that they were all mentally formulating what they were going to say to= the FAA investigation team. I was starting to question my decision to go= rotary, but now have a renewed sense of confidence in the installation.
 
Temperature today was around 50 degrees, even with extended running= on the ground at full throttle, temps maxed out at  145 and148 for= oil and coolant respectively. Throttling back to 16 inches of MP got the= temps running around 125. Going to wait until summer to close up my cooli= ng inlets a little.
 
Brian Trubee



-----Original Message-----
From: bktrub@aol.com
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 4:50 pm
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Replaced Tension Bolt, Oil Seal, Thrust Bearing= ... back ...

Hmm, send money overseas for their oil so that we can= increase our trade deficit and fund all sorts of socially constipate= d cultures who might be hostile to our own, or keep the money here an= d employ americans? That's a real head scratcher there. I've got some of= the mineral rights in the Bakken, due to some forward thinking ranch owni= ng ancestors, so you can imagine what my feelings on this are.

 

New Drilling Method Opens Vast U.S. Oil Fields

Published February 10, 2011
| Associated Press
A new drilling technique is opening up vast= fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the western United States, helpi= ng reverse a two-decade decline in domestic production of crude.
Companies are investing billions of dollars= to get at oil deposits scattered across North Dakota, Colorado, Texas and= California. By 2015, oil executives and analysts say, the new fields coul= d yield as much as 2 million barrels of oil a day -- more than the entire= Gulf of Mexico produces now.
This new drilling is expected to raise U.S.= production by at least 20 percent over the next five years. And within 10= years, it could help reduce oil imports by more than half, advancing a goal= that has long eluded policymakers.
"That's a significant contribution to energ= y security," says Ed Morse, head of commodities research at Credit Suisse.=
Oil engineers are applying what critics say= is an environmentally questionable method developed in recent years to ta= p natural gas trapped in underground shale. They drill down and horizontal= ly into the rock, then = pump water, sand and chemicals into the hole to crack th= e shale and allow gas to flow up.
Because oil molecules are sticky and larger= than gas molecules, engineers thought the process wouldn't work to squeez= e oil out fast enough to make it economical. But drillers learned how to= increase the number of cracks in the rock and use different chemicals to= free up oil at low cost. "We've completely transformed the natural gas in= dustry, and I wouldn't be surprised if we transform the oil business in the next few years= too," says Aubrey McClendon, chief executive of Chesapeake Energy, which= is using the technique.
Petroleum engineers first used the method= in 2007 to unlock oil from a 25,000-square-mile formation under North Dak= ota and Montana known as the Bakken. Production there rose 50 percent in= just the past year, to 458,000 barrels a day, according to Bentek Energy,= an energy analysis firm.
It was first thought that the Bakken was un= ique. Then drillers tapped oil in a shale formation under South Texas call= ed the Eagle Ford. Drilling permits in the region grew 11-fold last year.<= /div>
Now newer fields are showing promise, inclu= ding the Niobrara, which stretches under Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska and= Kansas; the Leonard, in New Mexico and Texas; and the Monterey, in Califo= rnia.
"It's only been fleshed out over the last= 12 months just how consequential this can be," says Mark Papa, chief exec= utive of EOG Resources, the company that first used horizontal drilling to= tap shale oil. "And there will be several additional plays that will come= about in the next 12 to 18 months. We're not done yet."
Environmentalists fear that fluids or waste= water from the process, called hydraulic fracturing, could pollute drinkin= g water supplies. The Environmental Protection Agency is now studying its= safety in shale drilling. The agency studied use of the process in shallow= er drilling operations in 2004 and found that it was safe.
In the Bakken formation, production is risi= ng so fast there is no space in pipelines to bring the oil to market. Inst= ead, it is being transported to refineries by rail and truck. Drilling com= panies have had to erect camps to house workers.
Unemployment in North Dakota has fallen to= the lowest level in the nation, 3.8 percent -- less than half the nationa= l rate of 9 percent. The influx of mostly male workers to the region has= left local men lamenting a lack of women. Convenience stores are struggli= ng to keep shelves stocked with food.
The Bakken and the Eagle Ford are each expe= cted to ultimately produce 4 billion barrels of oil. That would make them= the fifth- and sixth-biggest oil fields ever discovered in the United Sta= tes. The top four are Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, Spraberry Trend in West Texas= , the East Texas Oilfield and the Kuparuk Field in Alaska.
The fields are attracting billions of dolla= rs of investment from foreign oil giants like Royal Dutch Shell, BP and No= rway's Statoil, and also from the smaller U.S. drillers who developed the= new techniques like Chesapeake, EOG Resources and Occidental Petroleum.
Last month China's state-owned oil company= CNOOC agreed to pay Chesapeake $570 million for a one-third stake in a dr= illing project in the Niobrara. This followed a $1 billion deal in October= between the two companies on a project in the Eagle Ford.
With oil prices high and natural-gas prices= low, profit margins from producing oil from shale are much higher than fo= r gas. Also, drilling for shale oil is not dependent on high oil prices.= Papa says this oil is cheaper to tap than the oil in the deep waters of= the Gulf of Mexico or in Canada's oil sands.
The country's shale oil resources aren't ne= arly as big as the country's shale gas resources. Drillers have unlocked= decades' worth of natural gas, an abundance of supply that may keep price= s low for years. U.S. shale oil on the other hand will only supply one to= two percent of world consumption by 2015, not nearly enough to affect pri= ces.
Still, a surge in production last year from= the Bakken helped U.S. oil production grow for the second year in a row,= after 23 years of decline. This during a year when drilling in the Gulf= of Mexico, the nation's biggest oil-producing region, was halted after th= e BP oil spill.
U.S. oil production climbed steadily throug= h most of the last century and reached a peak of 9.6 million barrels per= day in 1970. The decline since was slowed by new production in Alaska in= the 1980s and in the Gulf of Mexico more recently. But by 2008, productio= n had fallen to 5 million barrels per day.
Within five years, analysts and executives= predict, the newly unlocked fields are expected to produce 1 million to= 2 million barrels of oil per day, enough to boost U.S. production 20 perc= ent to 40 percent. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates pr= oduction will grow a more modest 500,000 barrels per day.
By 2020, oil imports could be slashed by as= much as 60 percent, according to Credit Suisse's Morse, who is counting= on Gulf oil production to rise and on U.S. gasoline demand to fall.
At today's oil prices of roughly $90 per ba= rrel, slashing imports that much would save the U.S. $175 billion a year.= Last year, when oil averaged $78 per barrel, the U.S. sent $260 billion= overseas for crude, accounting for nearly half the country's $500 billion= trade deficit.
"We have redefined how to look for oil and= gas," says Rehan Rashid, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets. "The implicat= ions are major for the nation."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/10/new-drilling-method-= opens-vast-oil-fields/#ixzz1DZa3M891




-----Original Message-----
From: hoursaway1@comcast.net=
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 4:26 pm
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Replaced Tension Bolt, Oil Seal, Thrust Bearing= ... back ...

All= this was said 40 years ago.   """We will be out of oil in= twenty years"""  Coffee is bad for you""" now coffee is good for you= & we have more oil than anyone ever dreamed available + being used ma= ny times more efficiently,  the """ones in the know ...do not know!!!= !  But they can predict the weather 50 years from now. &nbs= p;            =           David R. Cook =   RV6A  Rotary  -4 deg. F. Lansing MI.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Staten" <david.s= taten@gmail.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:15:02 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Replaced Tension Bolt, Oil Seal, Thrust Bearing= ... back ...

Well, I can agree with Lynn for one thing.. Carter was 2nd worst pres= ident ever.... (After Bush 43)...  :P
 
Ethanol in fuel was never about efficiency. NEVER. It was about repla= cing a very toxic oxygenate (MTBE) with something cleaner burning and less= toxic. Lead in aviation fuel will go the same way.. its inevitable. One= plant makes the lead that goes in it. They go tits up and the 25 per= cent of the aviation fleet that burns 75 percent of the leaded avgas will= be knee-capped brutally.
 
Biofuel is not exclusively ethanol. Its also HYDROCARBONS synthesized= or processed from living matter, as opposed to fossil fuels naturally dev= eloped from long dead matter. Its bacteria in a digester/reactor with a fe= edstock and a product stream. Ethanol is in cars to reduce smog.. nothing= more. Biofuels in aircraft do not necessarily have to include ethanol (bu= t it could).
 
Ifwe dont start doing more than paying lip service to preserving our= environment, we will have the worlds best military protecting the worlds= largest ecological wasteland.
 
As long as we are overly dependent on fossil fuels, we will be= subject to the foreign policy of others. Biofuels, Nuclear, Solar, Wind,= Hydroelectric... all things that need to be developed further. And if we= wait until its too late to transition, our worlds best military will be= reduced to throwing rocks and writing nasty letters, because our turbine= powered planes and tanks dont run on good intentions.

Personally... if we have to burn oil... Why burn mine (ours) when I= can burn yours (theirs)..
 
I'm not hardly a hairy, stoned, tree hugging hippie, but I do recogni= ze their point..
 
Dave
 
 
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:24 PM, &= lt;hoursaway1@comcast.net>= ; wrote:
Lynn= for President,,,,,,,,,,( might be in central FL this winter, will contact= , stop & say hi )   David R. Cook  RV6A   Rot= ary.
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From: Lehanover@aol.com
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 1:39:57 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Replaced Tension Bolt, Oil Seal, Thrust Bearing= ... back ...

In a message dated 2/9/2011 12:02:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jwhaley@datacast.com writes:
Interesting= enough, though the scary part is there=E2=80=99s no mention in the text= of AVGAS or GAS =E2=80=A6 only the subject uses the term AVGAS.
The text body= uses the terms =E2=80=9Cunleaded, sustainable general aviation fue= l, credible renewable, unlead= ed fuel, 'green' fuel and the exclusive use of biofuel in air show perform= ances."  I fear this is another= attempt to push ETHANOL or heavy ethanol-blended fuel.
Jeff <= SPAN style=3D"COLOR: rgb(31,73,125)">
If you take away government subsidies from the green fuel tree hugger= play. Gasohol would be gone in a month. It takes almost a gallon of fuel= to produce a gallon of gasohol. You have to boil it. It is made just like= Jack Danials.
 
It is the biggest victory of form over function ever imagined by mank= ind.
 
The farmers love it because they save money as the kernel quality is= lower, and the water content is higher, and they get government money. Th= e government pays the oil companies to use it. The oil companies get to di= splace actual gasoline with the crap for even more profits, and the user= pays all of them extra in taxes so you can get 30% less mileage and perfo= rmance. But wait...........there's more.........Plus the better corn not= now being grown for feed stock plastics and human consumption has boosted= the price of that corn. So the farmer profits again. The beef man looses= his a__, and you pay even higher beef, pork and poultry prices in additio= n the taxes that support this house of cards. When beef prices get high en= ough, dairy herds are thinned at higher rates (younger) and milk productio= n drops. Milk prices go up.
 
What to do? 
 
Send the entire energy department home. Established in 75 to eliminat= e our dependence on offshore oil.
 
Eliminate all farm subsidies. Phase out oil imports to zero over the= next 7 years. Drill here. Drill now.
 
We can be cut off at the knees and turned into a 3rd world country by= the towel heads who hate us. If you don't remember the oil crisis of 74= under the (Now) second worst president in this country's history, Jimmy= Carter, Look it up. Long lines on odd license number days, or even licens= e number days for 10 gallons of fuel.
 
The worlds strongest military reduced to writing nasty letters?????&n= bsp;
 
If the tree huggers want to live in mud huts, smoke dope, and use gas= ohol let them pay for it with their money not mine.
 
Look up Bakken oil formation.
 
Lynn E. Hanover 


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