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Life After The Oil Crash
Topic Started: Oct 4 2004, 05:42 PM (72 Views)
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Check this out, some may find it intresting. There is alot of information so save it for when you have an hour or so. Its something I sumbbled across and recommed thinking for yourselves... thought provoking none the less. Enjoy. ;)

Peak Oil
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Interesting stuff. just more proof that we are heading for another depression, and this one will make 1929 look like a Mardi Gras Festival
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tsrill
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Hmhm. We will find our way out of it, though. If only because we have to. But it si indeed a problem, I have been thinking and worrying about it some time now.
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Well, the transition from fossil fuels to alternate fuels will be extensive and actually seems unrealistic, but its something that has to be done and will be, no matter what the cost. I think you will see different systems regionally, to conform to what works bests. For example electric cars in northern Canada, will not work in the winter since batteries loose charge in the cold... maybe massive scale public transport will be one of the only answers.

The thought of this is pretty scary.
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Interesting stuff and definately a source for fueling a debate...

My view is that once we managed perfectly well without some of the power sources we so heavily rely on today. The speed at which technological and scientific advancements are being made is encouraging. It is just going to take a little more effort on the guys that actually pull the strings in government to really start making the difference. Also you cannot discount the hand of God in providing for our needs ;)
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The biggest problem I see is not directly for the energy market (although long-distant travelling might become unaffordable to normal people), but, as also mentioned in the article, for the plastics and chemical industry. Especially a lack of fertilizers would be worrisome, since we have to feed all those humans we have created during the past centuries.

The problem of travelling can be increasingly made up for by our knowledge in communications. For the power grid electricity, we have, apart from durable energy sources which are still in development, large coal and uranium reserves which will gives a little longer break. And I still think bio-oil will be the way to go, especially for transportation issues. You can even produce it, with economic profit, from garbage (I did a study on that, once), if we only produced enough of it ;) (bio-degradable garbage, that is)
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I agree that the best substitute is bio-diesel, but the problem is that we are going to start selling corn and ther food is fuel rather than food. There is already enough people starving on this planet, nevermind some of the cheapest food available now sky-rocketing in price because it now is sold per barrel.
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