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

[The Avantguardian]

---- Original Message -----
> From: Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com>
> To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
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> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 8:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Doomsday Oil Price: (was RIP: Peak Oil)
> 
> 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.

I think what society needs is a balanced "energy diet". All this hydrocarbon burning is like a fat-only diet. Literally like spoonfuls of lard or butter. Yes, it is cheap but SSSOOOOO DISGUSTING.  And all this CO2? That is the diarrhea of your high-fat-diet. Don't believe CO2 is diarrhea? Try seeing how long you hold out with a plastic bag sealed over your head. (WARNING: Do *not* actually try.) Yet solar-power, while more expensive than lard er oil, is like the broccoli of energy. It has NO emissions and while it has less calories, those calories can potentially last forever with proper maintenance.
 
So people, you can continue guzzling that oil, which is like ordering off nature's value menu. Or you can pay the extra bucks to get a balanced energy diet so that you can build strong bones and conquer the stars. The choice is yours, I am just along for the ride.
 
Stuart LaForge


"The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools." -Thucydides.