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Non-Tech : Alternative energy
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To: Copperfield who wrote (958)6/5/2004 9:30:48 AM
From: Rock_nj  Read Replies (1) of 16955
 
I understand your sentiment. I'm not trying to bash oil. But, to say the end of the oil age is on the horizon is no longer in the rhelm of being a "sky is falling" environmentalist. When Shell Oil is making statements like they see oil declining after 2020 and they're backing up their sentiment with investments in renewable energy, it's something to take notice about. The big misconception about oil is that just because we have 50 years of proven reserves, the end of the oil age is still 5 decades off. The end of the oil age will come when demand outstrips supply permantantly and the price starts a sustained rise, making alternatives competitive. That will happen sometime in the next 15 years or so, probably sooner.

I agree that coal will be around for many more years than oil. I don't know much about clean coal technology, I'll have to look into it. It does sound interesting. If coal can be burned cleanly and efficiently, I'm all for that. You recently posted an article from New Scientist regarding a system designed to capture waste heat from industrial smokestacks. Innovations like that are exactly what's needed to keep our dinofuel infrastructure running. More energy produces with much less pollution. That's the direction we should be moving in.
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