[ExI] Doomsday Oil Price: (was RIP: Peak Oil)

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:22 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> The transition to renewable energy is really
> about fertilizer and powering farm equipment.  That one isn't getting any
> easier, and currently isn't really even being improved.  Everything else has
> technologically easy (even if painful) solutions.

Really?  There are plenty of electric tractors out there, and PV to make the
energy for them locally would seem to optimize power production for when
it's needed (coupled with wind if you need power for winter crops).

As to fertilizer production, a quick google on "fertilizer production" strongly
suggests it is being worked on.  That said, high abundance of electrical
power - to make hydrogen production via electrolysis more economically
practical than hydrogen production from hydrocarbons - would help with
this.