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No More Overseas Travel? - Running out of oil? |
26-Oct-2007 At 4:59:24 PM |
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On 26/10/2007 jackb wrote:
>Its not just about the cost of fuel we should be worried about. Petrochemical's
>are used in the manufacture of just about everything. Everything you wear
>and most things you buy. Oil reserves are expected not to last past 2050
>even if we curbe our growing use of it. So when it runs out what will our
>slings be made of, or our harnesses and ropes?
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>Everything will get more expensive.
I read an interesting, and axiomatically depressing, article on this topic recently that suggested we need to try and reserve oil to create the technologies that will enable us to live without it. And the way things are going at the moment we're not going to have much chance.
Anthony, in George Monbiot's recent book Heat, he casts serious doubt on the viability of fuel cells - a technology which has always sounded promising, but has remained strangely elusive over the past 15 years, principally because of the manner of hydrogen production/storage - and yes also major retrofitting costs.
The chapter on aviation is one of the scariest things I've ever read. |
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