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Finnbar on 20 June 2008

@ NightDragon83

Windmills and solar panels ain't gonna do shit in the long run, and neither is driving an "Ego-friendly" car like a Prius or running your car off vegetable oil... did you guys know that thanx to all the crops being bought up and used for trendy bio-fuels, the prices of raw goods have skyrocketed and people in some 3rd world countries are starving because they can't even afford the price of their own food!

lol?

Why wont windmill and solar power generation not be enough? over the last 10 years these 2 forms of power generation have become insanly more efficent and continue to get better and better. And as for the price of them as a limiting factor? Oil get huge tax breaks to remain at a decent price, it should be many times more expensive for us to purchase fuel, and if this was how wind and solar were treated it would also be cost effictive and would be about to "do shit". And as far as hybrids go its one step closer to electic cars in which could be powered off windmill and solar energy.

As for the biodisel that is a farce but only because of what they are using, the main food source used for that is corn and corn is also the worst source of food to use, it give the least bang for the buck. However they are starting to find way to create this fuel using and carbon based material eg. the stuff landfills are filled with, or elge.

P.s  since when werent people in some developing* countries not starving, or in absence of money to buy their food?

 



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NightDragon83 on 20 June 2008
HappySqurriel said:
bigjon said:
You are all morons. (I mean that in a nice way)

Yes oil prices are bad, but I have a strong feeling that oil prices will collapse. Also alterative fuels are RIGHT around the corner... if the oil prices do continue to rise than it will help usher in a new era of energy... Hydrogen... The tech is there, it is just being perfected. Within 10 years over 50% of all cars will be running off of water and air... greatly releaving the oil demand.

Sorry to reign on many of you end-of-world predictions...

How do you plan on generating this hydrogen? You need an energy source to convert it from water and (currently) Solar and Wind power is way too expensive and inefficient, it is difficult to produce Nuclear powerplants because of the environmental lobby, it is difficult to produce Hydro-electric powerplants because of the environmental lobby, it is difficult to produce Fossil Fuel powerplants because of the environmental lobby and your energy would still be attached to fossil Fuels.

How are you going to get the infastructure for these Hydrogen powered cars, and who is going to buy a hydrogen powered car without having a place to fill it? We're in a 'chicken and the egg' situation which has prevented the switch over to every other alternative energy resource.

 

Realistically, the next step in transportation is going to be people switching to hybrid-electric cars and eventually switching to plug-in hybrid-electric cars; the electric infastructure will remain (mainly) as a fossil fuels, and we will (hopefully) see an increase in Nuclear and alternative energies. The home heating infastructure will remain (mainly) as fossil fuels, and we will (hopefully) se a move towards electric.

At the same time you're going to see China and India's ecconomies eat up 5% to 10% more energy every year, and most western countries will (moronically) introduce taxes on energies while limiting production, which will cause energy inflation over the next several years.

^^^ What HappySqurriel said

Does anybody realize not only how many wind turbines/solar panels it would take to equal the output of a standard power plant or nuclear reactor?  Not to mention just how many square miles (and miles.... and miles) of land it would take to house all these infrastructures?

 

 

 

Answer:  A WHOLE F'N LOT!

 



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Ssyn on 20 June 2008
bigjon said:
You are all morons. (I mean that in a nice way)

Yes oil prices are bad, but I have a strong feeling that oil prices will collapse. Also alterative fuels are RIGHT around the corner... if the oil prices do continue to rise than it will help usher in a new era of energy... Hydrogen... The tech is there, it is just being perfected. Within 10 years over 50% of all cars will be running off of water and air... greatly releaving the oil demand.

Sorry to reign on many of you end-of-world predictions...

 

Name one affordable alternative energy fuel that won't rise food costs at the same time and doesn't have insanly priced engineering. There are none that can support your average family unless they hardly do any driving. There is not one spec of evidence oil prices will collapse; even if they do, they will never go back to the average before this incline, they never have.

 

@ Bolded

Those cars are so insanely expensive that only the top 5% income could afford them without some sort of major lifestyle change. 10 years to drop the price 75%? Who the hell is going to fund that? Our 70% corrupt government? The oil companies? Your to optimistic, we won't be off oil till everyone on this forum is a Senior Citizen.