Name: Anonymous 2007-10-28 0:22
This is not the jist of the situation, it is important you remember this in the following paragraph since I am capable of providing a citrus zest, a delicious tang that few others are capable of, a glass of cool iced pepsi with a single slice of lime on a hot summer afternoon after a BBQ.
2 energy brackets need to be filled for civilisation to function, electricity production and automotive engines. Electricity can be used to charge electric automotive engines which is a function of the cost of the electricity, the efficiency of the transfer to the electric engine and the efficiency of the engine. Fossil derived oil and gas will become as expensive as biologically derived oil and gas in a few decades and this will cause a penis riot, though coal will last another 200 years and is by far the most economic method of producing electricity and viable as a means of locomotive transportation so civilisation is not about to collapse. If we care about global warming, renewable energy is far less economical but economical enough to run a civilisation if that civilisation is stable enough to make the intial industrial investment needed to construct an effective renewable energy plant. There is 50 years of cheap uranium left which can compete with coal however like renewable energy a stable country is needed to prevent mishaps, the peak oil riot may adversely effect human civilisation's ability to use nuclear power since the cost and diplomacy of flying nuclear fuels across the planet will be affected. Future technological advancement will revolve around making renewable energy more economical rather than new energy sources and efficiency since these 2 fields have already been researched thoroughly, research into the sources and use of helium isotopes and oceanic uranium in nuclear power remains to be experimented with aswell as the possibility of yet unknown technology.
2 energy brackets need to be filled for civilisation to function, electricity production and automotive engines. Electricity can be used to charge electric automotive engines which is a function of the cost of the electricity, the efficiency of the transfer to the electric engine and the efficiency of the engine. Fossil derived oil and gas will become as expensive as biologically derived oil and gas in a few decades and this will cause a penis riot, though coal will last another 200 years and is by far the most economic method of producing electricity and viable as a means of locomotive transportation so civilisation is not about to collapse. If we care about global warming, renewable energy is far less economical but economical enough to run a civilisation if that civilisation is stable enough to make the intial industrial investment needed to construct an effective renewable energy plant. There is 50 years of cheap uranium left which can compete with coal however like renewable energy a stable country is needed to prevent mishaps, the peak oil riot may adversely effect human civilisation's ability to use nuclear power since the cost and diplomacy of flying nuclear fuels across the planet will be affected. Future technological advancement will revolve around making renewable energy more economical rather than new energy sources and efficiency since these 2 fields have already been researched thoroughly, research into the sources and use of helium isotopes and oceanic uranium in nuclear power remains to be experimented with aswell as the possibility of yet unknown technology.