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Richard Heinberg: Peak Oil and the Globe’s Limitations
Richard Heinberg, senior fellow with the Post Carbon Institute and the author of The Party’s Over, Peak Everything and, most recently, Blackout, discusses the phenomenon of peak oil and how it will affect life on this planet.
2 Comments on "Richard Heinberg: Peak Oil and the Globe’s Limitations"
Kenz300 on Thu, 13th Jan 2011 6:47 am
Wind, solar, geothermal and second generation biofuels all need to become a bigger part of the energy mix.
While they will not replace oil in the near future, they will help reduce the impact of the decline of oil supply and the higher prices and put us on a path to sustainability.
Biofuels are near 10% of automobile transportation fuels today due to being mixed with ethanol. What would the price of oil be if the demand for oil had not been reduced by this substitution?
Biofuels will extend the current supply of oil. Electric and hybrid automobiles will ramp up production and become a growing part of the transportation system. When there are high prices and gas lines at the filling station many people will look at electric and hybrid vehicles as a good option.
Sustainability….. diversity…..
The world is changing. We will use energy more efficiently. We may even start to build sustainable communities and walk or ride a bicycle to work, school or play.
We will change… the question is how abrupt will the change be?
A billion people were added to the planet in the last 12 years. With shortages of food, water, energy looming will the worlds resources be able to support the next billion additional people?
DMyers on Thu, 13th Jan 2011 9:59 am
Kenz300
You make some good points. Your final question was taken as rhetorical. This can’t possibly go on.
Any implication that electric or hybrid vehicles are a viable or desirable road not taken, that should be, I have to oppose. Imagine all the urban scenes every morning, “Philadelphia, Atlanta, LA,” as the old Steve Miller song goes.
Now, imagine that you can snap your fingers and all these gas powered vehicles were to become electric or hybrid vehicles. They may be electric, but it’s still a huge load of energy.
Shifting from oil to coal and nuclear is going to solve everything? I don’t think so. The peaks are everywhere. It’s a failed notion.