[onlooker]

http://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2017/ ... rmittency/
The growing gap between our lofty ambitions meeting up with the realities of biophysical limits

[Subjectivist]

It will only be the age of intermittency for those who choose to live the lowdensity intermittent energy lifestyle. We are a vey long way yet from running out of energy. A minor shortfall in oil or natural gas can still easily be made up with coal, and if we go low carbon nuclear is so vastly superior to solar pv with battery packs consuming vast acerage of land to fill current needs let alone future needs as less fossile fuel becomes available on the down slope.

[Subjectivist]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '&')quot;A minor shortfall in oil or natural gas can still easily be made up with coal"

Maybe then. Not now.

[asg70]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '
')It analyzed programs to replace petroleum with liquid coal or CTL. The cost and duration of such mitigation is virtually impossible.

[Cog]

You said there wasn't time because you have some sort of accelerated time-line involved in making oil unavailable for that transition. There is no evidence of that accelerated time-line in Hirsch's 2005 predictions or in your going on about it now pstarr.

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'Y')ou said there wasn't time because you have some sort of accelerated time-line involved in making oil unavailable for that transition. There is no evidence of that accelerated time-line in Hirsch's 2005 predictions or in your going on about it now pstarr.

[Subjectivist]

I didn’t say anything about using coal to oil technology, though that is certainly one option. For this occasion I was thinking more along the lines of the colloidal fuel the US Government developed forty five years ago to replace diesel fuel for large ships and locomotives. So long as shipping remains operational we maintain our civilization. Sure it will change in structure as we slide down the peak, but we won’t all starve or freeze in the dark.