blissblogger said:i think it was dominic who posted already about this article -- The exhaustion of our energy supply may end affluence as we know it. by James Howard Kunstler in The American Conservative
http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_09_12/cover.html
blissblogger said:it's all about the collapse of everything we've got used that's based around cheap fuel -- from suburbanization and growth of malls and out of town retail outlets (a really big thing in the USA)
Ness Rowlah said:A report in the Sunday Times today ("Waiting for the lights to go out").
Also an interesting bit on Norwegian news on my sat dish yesterday - we are spending a few million quid on a reasearch project with the Uni of Minnesota researching plant extracts as fuel. In the current (US?) fuel market the price difference is very small (a dollar was mentioned, I think for a barrel and it was in plant oils favour).
HMGovt said:Might it not be possible to grow oil bearing plant matter on a massive scale in lagoons or in the sea (a shallow, sun-bathed sea like the Gulf of Mexico)? This would sequestrate more carbon in a given area than land cultivation alone. It would also regulate the surface temperature of the sea, which in turn could dampen hurricane formation. It's a wild speculation, but we could turn sunlight into fuel with oleagenous, seaborne drift-gunk and harvest oil at source (without the boring 100-million year burial bit).
Ness Rowlah said:my homecountry (Norway) will once again be a likely "priced assett" for the worlds superpowers -
we have oil, water, gas, hydro power, clean air (but a crap climate, that might change as well within the next 50 years).
It's like the essence of version, l'eau de version