I suggest you all read this now.

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I think Nuclear Fusion is our best bet. The only problem is you need to heat it up VERY hot to make it work. Currently on Earth it's making just as much energy as it uses, so until we find a better way to do it, we really have no second option to when oil runs out. Personally, I can't wait until our oil is gone. Maybe 90% of the human race will die, but that would probably be better for the Earth. With less people we could supply ourselves with the energy we need much easier. It would be even better if humans were gone completely, all we really did was mess up the Earth.

 

[Static]

Originally posted by DarknessRises

Maybe 90% of the human race will die, but that would probably be better for the Earth. With less people we could supply ourselves with the energy we need much easier.

They talked about about how 90% of the human race will "die-off" and the earth will probably be in shambles but the time there is only 10 %. When the oil runs out our food will soon run out to because it takes oil to make food.

lets talk about America.... after we kill and eat all of the living animals like cows,pigs,deer, and any others we can eat. It will turn into a war. because america doesnt really know how much is too much. (i am an american) It will be a war for what food is left. then we will prolly march into canada or use what fuel we have left to make some kind of assault on someone else. War will take over. That sucks.

 

[Forged]

anyone seen roadwarriors?

 

[Miss]

Originally posted by cxoli
K-Pax was an awesome movie. But anyway, that actually sounds like a good idea. The human body produces tons of energy, so why shouldn't we be able to find some way to use that to our advantage?

Anyway that article sounds freakishly true. Scary to think what could happen in the next couple of decades....

Same as why can't we blow stuff up with our mind.

We just have not enough control in our bodies and disbelief so we can't (yet).

 

[Gedrin]

sorry im not reading posts i gotta be quick. axl, you can split hydrogen from water. thats what im getting at. we have engines that can split water into hydrogen and oxygen using the hydrogen.

Through a process called hydroylsis this works. There are storage problems with hydrogen, but I wonder if you could use solar power to use hydrolysis continually in a closed system on board a vehicle. Maybe even solar electric hybrids could work.

You might also be able to take hybrid cars a bit farther by adding solar power to electric and gas for more fuel efficiency.

 

[Jason]

Originally posted by dust601
"I, on the other hand, think that if the government doesn't want this to happen, they will get their asses into gear and come up with alternate routes of fuel and/or methods of obtaining power/heat other than that of the already semi-popular solar powered route."

You honestly don't think they've allready been trying to come up with alternate routes?

By this I meant that they need to take the initiative to get it out in the public so we can start working towards using it more and more.

 

[Gedrin]

Really when you get down to it we have the technology to reduce energy consumption. We could in theory put a solar collector on every house. We could in theory make auto manufacturers make all cars more fuel efficient, and they would be capable of doing so.

The fact of the matter is greater fuel and energy is bad for the certain industries that sell fossil fuels. Think about it, if everybody had solar collectors powerful enough to supply 10% of their power needs the cost of fuel sources would go down. This would have the potential to drive down manufacturing costs for some industries increasing profitability.

If technology was made available to produce 100% or even as low as maybe 40% of a homes electricity cheaply through something like solar panels, and it was advertised and made widely available this would result into a large scale conversion to solar power for individual homes. This would force a drastic reduction in power demand, and it would be logical to assume a drastic price reduction. This would devastate power companies.

My point (I actually have one this time) it is possible that there is such a way to get affordable small scale power generators based on cheap rapidly renewable or feedstock, or solar or wind sources. If there is, there would be a huge effort by certain industries to get rid of anything that could destroy their industry.

 

[Thistle]

I for one am not worried about it, besides everyone dies anyway and everyone knows that gas is gonna run out sometime.... A real "I told you so" I guess....

 

[ORC-r0x0r-ROC]

Lights, when the oil runs out the comapnies will be screwed anyway and there would be plenty of money to be gained by selling more efficient solar pannels. If they were wise then they would switch before oil completely runs out.