Peak Oil – Peak Opportunity?

With the growing concern that the global oil production has peaked, making hydrocarbon resources more difficult and more expensive to recover, researchers, policy-makers, and concerned individuals are examining discarded concepts and discovering viable, sustainable energy sources that can never be depleted. From water to wind, from plants to sunlight, they are developing technologies that actually can eliminate this country’s need to import oil.

“Alternative” fuels are nothing new. In fact, they were the mainstream power source a century ago. Rudolph Diesel built his engine to run on peanut oil. Henry Ford designed the Model T to run on ethanol. Wind delivered a significant source of power in the last century. Cheap gasoline (and Prohibition, since ethanol is just grain alcohol) made impractical the early use of what we now call alternative energy sources.

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