by AdamB » Sat 22 Apr 2023, 10:45:45
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', 'A')round 70 pct of heavy equipment for mining, up to half of energy for manufacturing, the bulk of energy for shipping, which involves extensive supply chains spanning numerous countries, mechanized agriculture, and petrochemicals needed for thousands of applications, involve fossil fuels.
You make a good case for fossil fuels continuing to come in handy! Good thing that peak oilers were ignorant about technology, geology and econoimcs when they claimed it is/was/had happened the first 5 times this century then, or the world might be hurting!
The good news is that, within the range of real prices we can suppose that might be available, there is no geologically based resource requirement that a real live peak oil happen in the first half of this century. We really should generate a peak oil through slackening demand, if the eco-friendly folks want to have a planet worth living on though. Get past the halfway point of this century though, and I don't know, our world's renewable buildout had better be getting some traction.
Plant Thu 27 Jul 2023 "Personally I think the IEA is exactly right when they predict peak oil in the 2020s, especially because it matches my own predictions."
Plant Wed 11 Apr 2007 "I think Deffeyes might have nailed it, and we are just past the overall peak in oil production. (Thanksgiving 2005)"