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Well, I have poked fun at the global warming alarmists, stating we need to speed it up, so that we can get to all that oil under the ice.. well lo and behold look what Russia is doing. We have China drilling off the coast of florida, Russia to the North, meanwhile we are sitting around trying to convince people not to drive, and celebrating the fallacious notion that corn is the answer. My question is, in 5-10 years when other nations have gone after oil everywhere they can and increased their capacities, and the US has been chasing some utopian pipe dream, refusing to even drill for the oil on our own soil, who will be in the position of control, and will it matter if we are all driving our micro soymobiles when the rest of the world is still pumping out the bubbling crude?Kremlin lays claim to huge chunk of oil-rich North Pole | Russia | Guardian Unlimited
When all the oil is pumped from everywhere but here, who will have the oil that is left? Consider leaving our oil in the ground to be a long-term investment in preserving chemical feedstocks.
Corn based ethanol is a joke. However, sugar based ethanol has some promise.
Our future is a reduction in energy consumption. This is a given. We simply cannot continue to consume at this level. We will eventually run out of resources.
all of them......Hydro-electric power, Solar energy, Shale oil, Wind energy, Gas hydrates, Wave energy, Nuclear fission, Tidal power, Geothermal Fusion, Ocean thermal energy conversion. Shall I continue......
all of them......Hydro-electric power, Solar energy, Shale oil, Wind energy, Gas hydrates, Wave energy, Nuclear fission, Tidal power, Geothermal Fusion, Ocean thermal energy conversion. Shall I continue......
No, just pick some and make them cost effective. You can concentrate on solar first since I have most of that in my area.
We all agree that alternative energy sources are essential and we would all prefer to see them sooner than later. The practical problem is for general utilization the costs must be reduced to something at least close to our worst case scenario for fossil fuels expenditures. The rank and file cannot afford to spend what they must now for fuel and we try to tell them to spend a significant premium over that in order to save the world from extinction in a few generations? Most of the world does not appreciate cause and affect beyond a few days, much less a few lifetimes.
If we devote our efforts toward refining the technology to the point it is desireable instead of complaining because people won't switch to an economically undesirable but ecologically preferable solution we would get there much sooner.
P.S. I also do not believe that the oil industry is blocking any technology in this area, but is pursuing it as actively as everyone else is but from the perspective of how to corner the market and protect their investment.
all of them......Hydro-electric power, Solar energy, Shale oil, Wind energy, Gas hydrates, Wave energy, Nuclear fission, Tidal power, Geothermal Fusion, Ocean thermal energy conversion. Shall I continue......
no thats sufficient, hydro electric, shale oil, nuclear are all valid resources that we should be using more of, unfortunatley the same environmental extremists that dont want us drilling for oil dont want more dams because of the fishies and are hysterical about nuculer waste. Solar, tidal and the rest are either jokes, unproven or not realistic on a large scale, and we still need good old oil to make that diesal for all the trucks keeping this country alive! The world is an oil based economy and it is not going to change overnight or even over 10-20 years no matter how many movies algore makes!
No one expects change to happen overnight. However, it is inevitable and alternative sources of energy, regardless of what kind they are, will gradually replace the burning of fossil fuels.
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the fact is every year there are more people in the world than the year before.the more people there are the more energy will get used.you can learn to use it more efficiently but you will never drastically reduce the amount of energy consumed unless we have worldwide population loss[which i dont see happening]we will eventually have to depend on alternative energy but that will only happen when they become cheaper then fossil fuels
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