greenworm wrote:just imagine a car that gets a 100 miles per charge coupled with a biofuel engine.
I always ask this question of biofuel proponents:
Do you want to eat or drive?
greenworm wrote:just imagine a car that gets a 100 miles per charge coupled with a biofuel engine.
I always ask this question of biofuel proponents:
Do you want to eat or drive?
greenworm wrote: BTW, it is well known that the entire US car fleet can be replaced by electric/biodiesel cars.
greenworm wrote: Plus, you don't need land, you can grow the plant on a roof in a bucket for christ sakes.
So? How is this a solution to anything?
It doesn't address population growth which will eclipse any savings in just a few years.
It doesn't address the lack of grid capacity.
It doesn't address the lack of transmission capacity.
It doesn't address scale.
It doesn't address who will fund it, both the purchase of vehicles and the massive capital investment for infrastructure.
It doesn't address the limits of any biofuel production which is inherently unsustainable by nature.
It doesn' t address C02 sequestration which must accompany any increase use of fossil fuels like coal.
It doesn't address the economic displacement of millions of workers dependant upon the current auto/fuel scheme.
Another Solution in Isolation.
greenworm wrote: Population growth, the silly monkeys will just have to learn not to act like silly monkeys. Christianity will have accept contraception.
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even if you cant smoke it to get high, people can go and plant strong smoking type in the same field and you couldnt tell, and it would be easy to grow lots and lots and lots of it and never get caught.
You just dont realize how much oil we burn
You can go sustainable if you just give up everything, basicaly, but I think most will wait till they have to, like myself, no sense starting early, I'll just get used to it like putting a toe in the cold water a little at a time, cut as much as I can. Thats how its going to happen.
MonteQuest wrote:greenworm wrote: Plus, you don't need land, you can grow the plant on a roof in a bucket for christ sakes.
And this can compete with oil gushing out of the ground under pressure?
Wow! In just a bucket? Technology sure has come a long way.
garyp wrote:To me peak oil isn't a problem of impossibilities - its a problem of time, scale and will.
We don't know what the decline rate will be
Graeme wrote:MonteWe don't know what the decline rate will be
This is a very interesting revelation from you because it means that, in principle, it is possible for us to get through this energy transition relatively unscathed. Would you go as far as to say that if there is no major catastrophe during the next 10-15 years, then we'll make it? I think that we have the necessary technical and business expertise but that there is a great danger for political inertia or conflict to stifle this. Our future could be either with or without major economic, social and environmental interruption.
Would you go as far as to say that if there is no major catastrophe during the next 10-15 years, then we'll make it?
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