MonteQuest wrote:Yes, in the early 70's I spent a lot of effort advocating the move to alternative and renewable energies for that main reason. It wasn't a matter of how much oil, coal, and gas we had, we couldn't continue to burn them in the atmosphere.
Peak oil may play a close second to global warming and environmental degradation as we scramble to keep the oil fires burning.
Just doing the calculations for hydrogen, just to run transport in the UK...Warwick university reckoned we needed 100,000 wind turbines....we would need to erect about 10 per day, everyday, including Christmas day for 27 years to achieve that target. Not going to happen..In a poll yesterday, 80% of people did not want nuclear power stations anywhere near them and we live in a small country, you would need 100 anyway, so over 33 would need be erected every ten years and they aint cheap.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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