Posted on 03/25/2005 6:50:44 PM PST by neverdem
Easy answer to what happens when the Oil runs out, hook up all
professors emeritus as hot air sources.
Once the oil runs out then Rush going to advise his listners to buy bigger SUVs?
Biodiesel and synthetic gas.
We burn copies of New York Slimes.
Surprisingly non-panic stricken ed from NYT about it. The clear answer, to me at least, is phasing oil out over the next 20-30 years and replacing it with nuclear and oil shale/coal.
Hopefully by then fusion will be more realistic. If not, just keep ramping up fission. Eventually, fuel cells could do the electric storage for the cars.
What Happens Once the Oil Runs Out?
Try Soylent Green?
This is pure, unadulterated pooh!
What about shale in the U.S. Rockies, and the sand in Canada? A lot of oil, just not financially viable...
I think he means the tundra.
It amazes me that liberals would rather drill near Santa Monica than someplace where there the population density is (much) less than one person per square mile.
ML/NJ
We're all just too free! Best to let our geniuses make the decisions for us. After all, their dire warnings always come true, don't they?????
Horsepower becomes more popular and people would learn to work closer to home.
That's if no alternative source was found.
Can't cut loose without that juice
Can't cut loose without that juice
If we keep on like we doing things for sure
Will not be cool - It's a fact
We just ai't got suffiecient fuel
There's only so much oil in the ground
Sooner or later there won't be none around
Alternate sources of power must be found
Cause there's only so much oil in the ground
We will never run out of energy.
"NREL's research showed that one quad (7.5 billion gallons) of biodiesel could be produced from 200,000 hectares of desert land (200,000 hectares is equivalent to 780 square miles, roughly 500,000 acres), if the remaining challenges are solved (as they will be, with several research groups and companies working towards it, including ours at UNH). In the previous section, we found that to replace all transportation fuels in the US, we would need 140.8 billion gallons of biodiesel, or roughly 19 quads (one quad is roughly 7.5 billion gallons of biodiesel). To produce that amount would require a land mass of almost 15,000 square miles. To put that in perspective, consider that the Sonora desert in the southwestern US comprises 120,000 square miles. Enough biodiesel to replace all petroleum transportation fuels could be grown in 15,000 square miles, or roughly 12.5 percent of the area of the Sonora desert (note for clarification - I am not advocating putting 15,000 square miles of algae ponds in the Sonora desert. This hypothetical example is used strictly for the purpose of showing the scale of land required). That 15,000 square miles works out to roughly 9.5 million acres - far less than the 450 million acres currently used for crop farming in the US, and the over 500 million acres used as grazing land for farm animals.
Thats easy.
We uncap our wells, and start drilling and pumping our own!
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