Kyoto is dead. So we can leave that out of the equation.
There are two different issues that it seems to me that you and Ted are mixing up, and which it would be helpful to clearly separate out.
One: reducing pollutants, which means using less energy, or finding less polluting energy sources, or converting some pollutants to non-pollutants, or some combination of the three.
Two: finding new energy sources to replace oil and gas and coal when they run out, which they will do eventually, though not for awhile. No matter how much our oil and gas and coal reserves are, and no matter how much we improve the technology of withdrawing them from the earth and using them more efficiently, the earth isn't producing as much new oil and gas as we draw ouf of it, so eventually, if we keep using oil we will run out at some point.
Fusion would answer both questions. It may not be the short term answer to either, but if we can control it it's the long term answer to both. |
