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Talking peak oil in the heartland
Arriving in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the ambitiously named
For those who expect an alternative fuel or technology to replace oil, the conference held out no hope. Keynote speaker David Goodstein, professor of physics at Caltech, and author of the book, Out of Gas, went through all of the alternatives: coal, natural gas, biofuels, solar, wind, geothermal and nuclear and showed how each one has severe physical limitations in the real world. For instance, here is his take on nuclear energy:
To produce enough nuclear power to equal the power we currently get from fossil fuels, you would have to build 10,000 of the largest possible nuclear power plants. That
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