Ludi wrote:If new nuclear plants are being built to take up the slack from depleting oil, in what way is that not "business as usual" since there would (theoretically) be no less available energy (it having been made up by nukes)?
I don't expect that full scale replacement will occur... I think it's probable we have much less available energy.
Monte doesn't expect it to occur either ... take a look at his threads in his "best of monte section" (eg. infrastructure report etc.)
You can't have it both ways. Either the impacts of Peak Oil are going to be significant and long lasting or we are going to transition to another fuel without any (energy) problems.