We are doomed if we do not seek alternative fuel options.
I overheard some Yale students speaking about Brazil (I believe) who are developing an alternative to oil and will be self-sufficient in the next few years and will have no use for oil as fuel. They spoke of some interesting things.
question is how much time is left to get the alternatives before the chain reaction goes off?
Once that happens there is little chance of escape unless you are really well set up.
you just figured this out?
oil is needed for everything in daily life, its not just a gas for cars thing
however honda has a fuel cell car
thats the future of that
for society to exist as it does, we need lots of oil, and the alternative energy needs to be used so the crude oil can be used for
**** like.... plastic.... hell just look around your house and see that everything has plastic and that is oil
http://world.honda.com/FuelCell/
I never realized how desperate the situation was and how fast things will spiral back into the dark ages if an amazing solution is not found.
the oil companies will not allow us to seek alternate fuel until we are in dire straits. Check out a movie called The deat of the elctric car (I think thats what it\'s called)
the whole thing is under wraps. The oil families and the government is doing their best to keep people distracted, scared, divided and uninformed. Bottom line is they know we are headed for disaster but they place no value on our lives so they are just looking after their own asses.
My problem is I can\'t decide if I want to just say
**** it and enjoy the good life while I still can or actually try to make a plan to get out beforethe
**** hits the fan. I can;t decide because I don\'t know if the post crash world will even be worth living in. I can deal with no TV and all that stuff, but what about stuff like modern medicine. I don\'t really want to be pulling my own teeth or dying from malaria
we got it all covered. theres plenty of options out there and the technology is available. the oil crisis is a capitalist thing...once we run out, alternate power companies are going to be the money makers, and its just a question of who can produce the most efficently, at the lowest cost. then youll have your next exxon-mobil.
a lot of this research/development is going on at my school, so im relatively knowledgable about it (seminars almost weekly on this
****), although my research isnt related.
I read somewhere they expect a delay in peak production as late as 2020-2030 but that is optimistic. We might be in the peak now.
As long as Oil Companies can make money selling oil, they will. When one is ready to market alternative energy, they will make money. I am surprised that some of the Oil giants are not interested more in research for an alternative fuel so they can monopolize.
I like the optimism about alternative fuels...but is it realistic hope or just rationalization.
I believe that alternative fuels are a realistic hope. Many great inventions come out of necessity. I also think that it has been worked on for a long time now and we are just getting to the stage of putting some of these fuels to practical tests, so there is still time to come. But, a Country that is so reliant on oil, why not make an alternative fuel, change everything over that uses fuel to the alternative fuel and say
**** you to the oil countries and let them die in their palaces.
We have hundreds of years of coal reserves right here in the U.S. One day we\'ll likely liquefy it, make it cleaner and power our cars.
We can always expand nuclear power, drill off the outer continental shelf, tap into the geothermal energy of Yellowstone etc.
As for ethanol, 70 percent more energy is required to produce ethanol than the energy that actually is in it. If all the automobiles in the United States were fueled with 100 percent ethanol, most U.S. land area would be needed to grow the corn feedstock.
The most exciting idea being studied right now is the potential to harness tidal power in San Francisco. They hope to build massive turbines underneath the Golden Gate Bridge that capture the power of the tides entering and leaving San Francisco Bay. Hopefully enough to power much of the city\'s electrical needs.
Hopefully battery power will advance to the point where cars can travel hundreds of miles without a charge.
The most exciting idea being studied right now is the potential to harness tidal power in San Francisco. They hope to build massive turbines underneath the Golden Gate Bridge that capture the power of the tides entering and leaving San Francisco Bay. Hopefully enough to power much of the city\'s electrical needs.
I also hear they are studying Niagara Falls to do the same.
Interesting enough.
I also saw something on these HS students who turned a diesel engine into a vegetable oil engine with an extremely easy procedure.
I also saw something on these HS students who turned a diesel engine into a vegetable oil engine with an extremely easy procedure.
Yeah quite a few people have done this.
I also saw something on these HS students who turned a diesel engine into a vegetable oil engine with an extremely easy procedure.
Yeah quite a few people have done this.
A fringe of people all over the U.S. have outfitted their diesel vehicles for compatibility with greasy cooking oils. I remember a group of students in Amherst went on a national tour with their "grease bus", fueling up exclusively on leftover restaurant oils.
Just this week SF started a huge program in which the city will pick up used cooking oil and grease from local restaurants, hotels etc. for free. Those substances then will be turned into biodiesel, which burns cleaner than petroleum-based fuels.