BlameThePixel!

Well, I was just doing some early morning surfing, and found a site on a forum i visit.

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Introduction.html

Seems the decline of oil has started and the oil prices will gradually increase. Draw up your own opinions on the matter - I know what i think.

it's ineveitable

ummmm

Not good....

i hoped to out-live the oil crash....

Humans are idiots, really.

Explain.

whilst it is a huge problem, I think he's over-sensationalising it to sell books.

Whilst he does mention alternatives, in what I read he didn't mention nuclear fusion, only nuclear fission. I think if we can crack nuclear fusion it may be a viable alternative, unlike fission, it doesn't need uranium, just Deuterium or Tritium (one of those), which is like helium but with more particles, and is rather common in water. I believe there's enough of the stuff to keep us going for a long time, if we can make it efficient.

I wouldn't trust me though, I've forgotten most of the details from that module, would need to look at the textbook, which I don't have seeing as I finished school.

shut down las vegas.. that place uses more power then any other place on earth, that I know of. Think of the kilowatt hours saved just by killing "the city of sin"

While we're at it, we might as well put California out of its misery as well. They have brownouts and blackouts so much that they obviously don't know what to do with power anyway .

All-in-all, it's an inevitable occurance. They just need to step up in researching alternative energy sources. Such as microwave power from Sim City 3000! (Okay, joking aside, in theory it could work, but it'd probably kill a few thousand people in the process).

i think the Real Question is:

Why is that book image a fake?

well, as far as cars go, there's a hydrogen cell-powered car in the works. well, it's done, it just needs to have a H-cell that's a reasonable price. (it'd cost an insane amount as it is now)

If you read the article, there aparrently is only enough platinum in the world for one years worth of fuel cells for the number of cars we currently have.

That hydogen cell engine has been completed for years, it's neem out of the works for a few years now. I saw it on discovery channel when i had cable.

And as ZoG posted.. 1 year is not a very good number.

Years ago in the 1960's a man developed a car that ran on vegitable oil.. I kid you not.. no one knows what happened to him, he was probobly knocked off by the oil industries as an engine like that could ruuin their business.




Nah Cali is fine, a lot of the power drawn for las vegas comes from Califonia. Killing Las Vegas would probohbly fix most of the brown outs.

The problem is fossil fuels. We depend on them for the simple fact that most people are used to them/ Gasoline (or petrol) is easy to get, and versital as everything is dependant on it, Electric devices are just as bad... Most power plants rely on either water for power.. (free, never ending) . Nuclear fission, or a fosil fuel. The Coal, oil and Natrual gass power plants will be suppling power for out electric devices that we use so as not to waste fossil fuels.... Its a never ending loop.

The key here is to avoid the use of fosil fuels.. not just directly, but cut it off at the root.

Solar Power is free, but unreliable, Wind power is also free and never ending, but does noot produce much power for each turbine. Nuclear fussion is a long way off, and i would not put any stock in iit being perfected.,

Natral gass is also a fossile fuel, so resorting to that as abosed to gasoline, would only prolong the ineveitable.

This has been around since I was a kid. I remember that on Nickoledoen short mini-comercials made mention of the world running out of fossil fuels and that every effort should be made to make use of some other type of power.

Lol at microwave power from Sim City 3000... I have the deluxx edition to that game.. mis targeted beam is pretty evil. XD

Any way, Since most of us on this board are young enough to really feel the impact f what is to come, Its going to be on us to decide what's going to hapen. We are to be the leaders of the world one day.. I would start doing a bit more research, and focus on making an effort to save what resources we have now.

^^the problem with wind power is it also has negative effects on the environment, something to do with drawing the enrgy out of the atmosphere (wind, strangely) and causing global warming, which is why there are objections to offshore wind farms.

That image is a picture made in a 3D image editor whatever. Not a photo from reality. I think that the whole site is fake.