“As soon as that fast-moving technology produces energy/fuel as cheap as oil, oil will start to lose market share and disappear as a fuel. Of course, 25% of oil use is non-fuel in nature, so there will be demand for oil for quite some time yet.”
How much oil is still used for providing electrical power? That’s what I’m pondering at the moment? Hopefully not too much... What I’d love to hear is that the only way to prevent global warming is to switch all our power generation to nuclear plants.
“How much oil is still used for providing electrical power? That’s what I’m pondering at the moment? Hopefully not too much... What I’d love to hear is that the only way to prevent global warming is to switch all our power generation to nuclear plants.”
Don’t know how much oil is used to produce electrical power. In my area coal is used. The only way to prevent global warming is to put a shield between the earth and the sun. Since global warming and cooling are natural processes, it would probably be best to adapt rather than tinker.
About 3% of electricity is provided by fuel burning plants. That does not include natural gas, but just oil.
Coal provides about 55% of our electricity.
That is as big a no-no as oil. The end of this game is NOT ecology or Global Warming or anything so idealistic. The end of it is Elite managed totalitarian socialism. The old ways fell into disrepute ca. 1989 and the commies had to come up with some cover to continue their drive. Well Ecology and Golbal Warming is it. Global Warming is beginning to lose its luster as more and more actual scientists are saying enough of this tripe. Something new will come up which will kill us all in horrible ways if we do not turn over the world economy to the Left.