by Stephen Petranek.
Posted May 9, 2014.
As it turns out, while oil companies are investing billions in exploring for new underground lakes of petroleum, and half the states in the U.S. are being fracked in a mad dash for natural gas, we have already discovered about as much oil and gas as governments are likely going to allow us to burn.
In order to avoid cataclysmic climate change and rising seas that overwhelm every U.S. coastal city, which happens to be where the majority of Americans live, we’re going to have to reduce the carbon we put into the air by a drastic amount. Barring a breakthrough in nuclear fusion power, that can be accomplished only by turning to solar, wind, hydro, nuclear and geothermal sources.
The End of Energy as We Know It:
I am not sure he took into account the economics and efficiency of solar ? if so then I don’t think it will replace carbon based energy in my lifetime.
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