[Armageddon]

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[PolestaR]

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[dukey]

no

[Zardoz]

This by itself won't save us, but a little alt energy here, a little synthetic oil there, some real conservation, and we may be able to hold off the onslaught of the zombie hordes for a few more years.

No one thing will replace the oil and gas industry. It'll take hundreds of new sources to do that. This could be one of them.

[SinisterBlueCat]

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[PolestaR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SinisterBlueCat', 'I') know this is totaly off topic, but what is with this? If "our" society makes you so sick that you want to see it end in flames, then I say that you are to much a part of it.
As much as I try to reject the comsumer, car dependant, advertising driven lifesytle held dear by so many, wishing death, destruction and dispair on millions of people still seems wrong to me.

[SinisterBlueCat]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PolestaR', 'T')here is nothing wrong with wishing death on billions of people. The quicker you come to this conclusion the more depressed you will be.

[gego]

Sounds similar to the failed oil from turkey parts plant in Carthage, MO.

How is anything that captures just one years worth of energy from the sun going to replace what nature took hundreds of years to accumulate? We have been living on our savings, not the income on it. Same deal as the jerk who inherits $1 million and spends $300,000 per year when he is only earning $50,000. The remainder that he spends over the $50,000 comes out of the limited inheritance and it soon runs out.

Unless we come up with one humdinger of an energy source we are in deep problems. There is no "soft" sustainable source of energy that will take care of 6.5 billion hungry resource gobblers. It appears that we humans are the real turkeys in this equation.

[Jack]

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[PolestaR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', 'N')ot to worry - it's a cycle. This particular "solution" started out as thermal depolymerization (which was going to save us, Glory Be!), morphed into Rapid Thermal Processing (which was going to save us, Glory Be!), and is now reincarnated as bio-oil (which will, no doubt, save us, Glory Be!). --snip-- And we as a society will invest, you know. Billions - nay, trillions - to avoid the upcoming changes. That final doomed effort will be what will, in my opinion, finish us. It is ironic, I suppose, that hope is the most dangerous of the troubles released by Pandora.

[Graeme]

Biomass energy is merely part of (a significant third according to USDA) an interim solution to peak oil. Longer-term technical solutions (e.g. hydrogen) are still being worked out. The political will of the American people and its politicians are now beginning to change toward renewable energy solutions. But this will require massive investment for many years to come to have any hope of succeeding. Isn't this better than doing nothing and resigning yourself to death and failure. I would prefer to fight for life. This is not cornucopian thinking, rather if done properly, it can be ecologically sustainable.

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Graeme', ' ')Isn't this better than doing nothing and resigning yourself to death and failure. I would prefer to fight for life. This is not cornucopian thinking, rather if done properly, it can be ecologically sustainable.