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To: tejek who wrote (183616)	3/3/2004 7:17:46 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572919

Since you've done the research, what fuel will pick up the slack when oil production starts to decline? So having a fairly solid understanding of energy means I can predict the future? Not really but I'll give it a shot anyway. There won't be any one fuel that will pick up the slack. We will over time more efficiently and a number of different fuels and non-fuel sources of energy will pick up the slack. The non-oil sources most likely to be able to produce a lot of energy in the not too distant future are coal and nuclear fission. Tar sands and oil shales have a lot of potential but some problems, but they make more sense as the price of oil goes up. The main problem is that it is much harder to extract oil from these sources then from conventional oil fields. Geothermal energy can and probably will expand but its unlikely to produce any where near as much energy for our use as the oil we now burn. Solar will probably be a minor contributor but its use will grow. Tidal power is a mostly untapped resource. Then there are exotic ideas like fusion and solar power satellites. Eventually I think we will get energy from exotic sources, perhaps even ones that haven't been thought of yet but you can't count on them. Tim