Peak Oil is that piont when half of all the world's oil resources have been used up, and as it gets rarer and more difficult to obtian the price will just go up and up, crippling the economy and causing profound changes that cannot be predicted with any great certainity.
There is no alternative to oil that is not really a derivative of oil, nothing as dense or as energy rich.
After peak oil there will be Peak gas, and without gas you can't process the oil sands and tars to liberate the oil in those. Besides, you need a lot of water for the process, and most of the tar sands are in deserts. Without oil, how do you truck in the water?
Nuclear is not the answer as you can't put nuclear power in a petrol tank, and there is already a shortage of Uranium.
Without oil, how do you build and fit the 32,000 wind turbines you would have to build and fit every year for at least 50 years,
or build and fit the 91,000,000 solar panels needed every year for 50 years. Hydrogen? No.
2007-09-12
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