Crudel Oil? No! Gas? No! Global Warming-True. What will POWER the world? What will replace OIL?

Question

As the power hungry human communnity continues to increase its need for Crude Oil and Natural Gas resources, with an increasing threat by global warming, what do you think will power the world in the future?

According to me, wind and solar energy have the best potential!

Answer 1

It certainly won't be nuclear power. Environmentalist are altruist who are ashamed of mans genius. They won't be happy until we all move back into caves.

Answer 2

It's going to be hydrogen for sure. All we have to do if figure out a good cheap way to store it, and we're off to the races. It has a higher energy density than any fuel. It's super easy to make, just split water into H2 and O2 using cheap solar power. Solar and wind are both dodgy. They have major down times. Nuclear is OK, it's just very difficult to build and run the plants. So for me, it's solar power to make hydrogen from water.

Answer 3

In the short to medium term the answer has to be a mixed strategy comprising: -
1. Development of renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and hydroelectric.
2 Nuclear Energy
3 Reduction in demand - probable by making power expensive.

Answer 4

It indirectly affects the concrete column apart from the chemical attack on the concrete. Nimao is spot on that saturated soil has less effective stress. When soil is compacted, the friction between particles gives it strength as they are packed more closely together. As it becomes saturated, more water particles fills the gap hence reducing the friction between soil particles, thus reducing the effective stress of the soil. Thereby the less weight the soil can take from the foundation of your building before failing. How does it affect the columns? Well, your columns are sitting on a footing either a pilecap or pad footing. The friction of soil underneath this footing is going to affect how much load the support can take. If overstressed you generally would have settlement. It is not uncommon for footings to overturn thereby breaking the connection between columns and footings. And when one footing settles, more load is distributed to nearby colum/footing combination which in turn overstresses other footings nearby. Direct effect on column, not really but consequential probably.

Answer 5

it cant be replaced if it is stopped or the production is low
.. it is because that everyone is using this daily more than 1lakh tonnes of crude oil is used and theglobal warming is incresing by 0.2 % every day so urs opinion be right but it should be utilised by the people all over the world i feel the world better to be with nature and keep apart the inventions that give harm to human being that live on the earth

Answer 6

Wind annd solar, yes. but also tidal generators--tat technology is almost to the point of being practical. With modern technology, nuclear power is safe--and cheaper than using coal to generate powr. Electriccars are more comparable to gas-driven cars in performance and have adequate range for urban driving.

We can--and will--be able to produce far more energy bythese methods than we get from obsolete technologies like coal, oil,and natural gas.

Some people keep whining that "enviornmentalists won't let us use nuclear power. That there were concerns about safety in the past is true--and Chernobyl provet those concerns were jstified. But the problems were solved long ago. Wedon't have new nuclear power plants in the US because the fossil fuel industry--NOT environmentalists--are blocking new construction.

Answer 7

Wrong The plants will save us . The plants tale in the CO2 and give us back oxygen ,but they keep the Corbin. The leaves wash down the rivers to the delta where they will recycle and produce more oil ,gas ,and after a long time coal.

Answer 8

The most convenient and eco friendly fuel in future will be BIO-DIESEL

You check the description in below link
http://www.biodiesel.org/pdf_files/fuelfactsheets/Co-Processing%20One%20Pager.pdf

Also Nuclear means Uranium still and will play a major role in Future.


I believe WATER,AIR,SOLAR will play major role in Future when we will end up with the Natural Gas and Oil.

Answer 9

You're right that wind and solar will play a role.

But, in the short run, we can't do it without nuclear. Especially with vehicles converted to run on electricity and hydrogen made with electricity.

We know how to dispose of the waste safely, it's just a political problem to designate a site.

Most environmentalists these days support nuclear power, since the risk is much less the the risk of global warming. One powerful (and surprising) example:

http://www.amazon.com/Revenge-Gaia-Earths-Climate-Humanity/dp/046504168X

Answer 10

I agree with you that wind and solar are the best option. I think that in daytime during sunlight mostly it would be solar and nighttime wind/hydel/tidal/biofuel.

Answer 11

WHatever anyone says, biofuel using palm oil is the worst choice. Just read how it's produced, the countries that lead production in it burn down rain forests FULL of co2 emissions & peat soil which create more pollution than any gas car-

People ***** about cars & their toxins, they are NOTHING in comparisons to DIesel truks! Maybe the world should open their eyes to the cause & effect. Science won't fix a problem. We shouldn't assume CORN-ETHANOL is the way to go either, it produces the least amount of gasoline per acre. Right now....

JATROPHA oil is the best, sure it takea few years to grow its fruit seeds for oil BUT it wont create food shortages, it can grow ANYWHERE not only in rain forests like palm oil!!! Not to mention it;s one of the highest oil production per acre of growth.

Hope you all read further into "BIOFUEL" when people preach no oil. I'd choose oil over burning down rainforests which release more co2 emission toxins than 10 years of diesel trucks in no stop motion!!! PLUS- I would pick oil over starving the mexicans by taking their corn!

:o) STAY JATROPHA... Green is a scam! It's a way for the companies of teh world to appear like they give two shits about the enviroment.