what would happen when we run out of oil ?

Question

I hope the world will start using hydrogen
for energy in cars and motorbikes
We will not depend on Arabic oil
and our environment is more heathly and clean

wave ,solar and windpower will make
all the energy we need

just vote on me

just vote on me

wave ,solar and windpower will make all the hydrogen we nead

Dear darren m
the Question was not about
terrorist

Answer 1

IF WE MAKE THE HYDROGEN FROM WIND MILS AND SOLAR CELLS

it will substitute oil and coal

Answer 2

I imagine everything would slow down considerably. Without oil alternate energy sources would become the prime movers in society. Hydrogen cars may do it for a while until some one comes up with something better to use other than liquid fuels.

Answer 3

We would all be left standing in our underpants if they were not made out of oil based products. Silk would be back as major commodity and China would be known again for selling silk. Cotton or wool would be the material of choice to make clothes. Paint, Carpets, Candles, shoes, guns, feritilizer, all require oil though in petrochemical form and so would all be gone. Trains if powered by electricity would require less oil than private cars. An all Public transportation system would make a country more secure in that trains are not as difficult to check. A terrorist of any type if found on a train could be trapped untill next station. A terrorist could place explosives underneath a train like in a Hollywood movie and like The Madrid bombings though never bomb a plane if none are in the air. If instead the number of planes in the air are reduced there would not be as many air crashes or terrorist attacks by those means. Guards could be placed on trains or inspect trains. Not particularly appealing thoug to reminescent of Fascism or Police State. Still no one has suggested yet that giving up your car or to not have so many planes in the sky will make you safe or if not entirely safe more safe.

Answer 4

Where will we get the hydrogen? There is no source of hydrogen in the world. The hydrogen we use today is made from natural gas or oil. If that runs out then where will we get the hydrogen? I hope you don't say from water by using electrolysis, because to do that requires more electricity than can be generated by burning the hydrogen in a generating station. The maximum amount of electricity you can generate by burning one tone of hydrogen in the most efficient power plant in the world is not enough to separate one ton of hydrogen from water.

And if you really believe solar and wind can make all the power we need, then buy solar panels and windmills and make your own electricity. But you won't do that because those sources cannot make enough power either. You are mistaking the fact that solar can make SOME power for the idea that it could make ENOUGH. It CAN make some, but it cannot make ENOUGH. Than may change when oil runs out. Then we will have to tighten our belts, use less power and pay much more for the power we do use, and that will be solar and wind and nuclear and hydroelectric (cheap but ultimately limited by the number of rivers in the world) and bio mass and geothermal (limited to areas where hot magma comes close enough to the surface to be tapped, like Iceland) and other alternative sources. No one source will ever save us. We need them ALL. And more. We need to invent new ways to produce power. Like nuclear fusion.

Answer 5

We will find something else. But, running out of oil is not well defined.

When we run out of conventional oil reserves (probably in about 100 years or so) the next source will be keragin from oil shale (The U.S. has more keragin than Saudi Arabia has oil). When all of the keragin is gone, we can always convert coal to gasoline, diesel oil, gas and jet fuel. The technology to do this has been around for over sixty years.

Answer 6

You mind if I disagree:
1. running out of oil - long before we have no oil left, we will reach the point, where demand is higher then supply, that will be it.
2. Currently, only 10% of the world population uses 98% of the energie. Wave, wind and solar is no answer. Only if this 10% cut their energie levels significantly down, it will be possible to sustain with alternatives, once the rest gets up to our living standards.

Answer 7

Not possible. Oil is not exactly what we thought. For decades we were convinced that oil was ancient dino. bones, when it is really the waste product of a bacteria. Currently, scientist can make a synthetic oil that's ever bit as effective as what we drill out of the ground, it's just cheaper to drill for it.

Answer 8

Put it this way there will be no chance of any private transport. hydrogen and electric cars use more energy making/charging the fuel than they use in motion.

Answer 9

It`s all about initial cost. Also the OIL Rich want to milk whats left of the oil industry first. Then they can start gouging the public for other survices they will provide!

Answer 10

peace be upon you
futur without oil = clean evironment.
West need oil for heating , if no oil , perhaps they freeze .
In wars , there will be no planes or tanks , so they may use horses and swords instead.
We have to save ourselves and generations after us , by using renewable energy sources or learning how to ride horses and using swords.