Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo...
by busterarm on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:16PM
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Everyone who has actually done the math wrt actually meeting our global energy demands agrees: petrochemical dependence is not going away any time soon.
Electric car demands increases demand on the grid, which will centralize demands for fuel. Electric aircraft are a long way off, except in the private jet world. Battery energy density just isn't there and would massively increase costs. Plus there's the whole issue of explosive failure modes; contrasted with avgas which is relatively safe in liquid form.
Renewable energy technologies are made with petrochemicals, so they have their own built in oil & NG demand.
The most, wealthiest (on average) people live where renewable energy is least effective.
The numbers do show that we can drastically reduce our oil dependence, but ONLY if we're willing to trade quality of life to do so. There's little chance of that happening.
Electric car demands increases demand on the grid, which will centralize demands for fuel. Electric aircraft are a long way off, except in the private jet world. Battery energy density just isn't there and would massively increase costs. Plus there's the whole issue of explosive failure modes; contrasted with avgas which is relatively safe in liquid form.
Renewable energy technologies are made with petrochemicals, so they have their own built in oil & NG demand.
The most, wealthiest (on average) people live where renewable energy is least effective.
The numbers do show that we can drastically reduce our oil dependence, but ONLY if we're willing to trade quality of life to do so. There's little chance of that happening.