This is a good indication of where the future lies, and it's not in constant oil production...http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...y-gigawatt-output-national-grid-a8260836.html
China is the world's top market for electric vehicles, and they recently announced that they have started “relevant research” and are working on a timetable for implementation of a ban on vehicles powered by fossil fuels.
That news followed previous announcements by France and the U.K. that they would ban the sale of vehicles powered by fossil fuels by 2040. These countries are making bets that electric vehicles (EVs) will be ready for near universal adoption when these bans go into effect. By making these bets, they are trying to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Planes do not need jet fuel? That's a laugh. Try flying a solar powered plane at night.Look back a few years.. All our lighting was oil lamps and candles. Whale oil for many years until the whales ran out and kerosene took over around 1850. Now some of us keep this as backup for when the hydro goes out. Solar as a source for electric is on the rise. Try and find garden lights that you have to plug in. several neighbors are off the grid with solar power. More and more electric cars are being sold. Planes do not NEED jet fuel. Almost 10 years ago now a flight around the world in solar powered plane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse. Ya the gas distributors can jack the prices all they want, the car salesman at Honda (Leaf), Tesla, Mercedes (Smart) and many others love it.
Strange...how do solar powered garden lights work at night then?Planes do not need jet fuel? That's a laugh. Try flying a solar powered plane at night.
They have batteries obviously. Big difference between a passenger plane and a garden light. Try flying a passenger plane on batteries. Too ridiculous to even consider.Strange...how do solar powered garden lights work at night then?
I cannot vouch for the newspaper, but that article has a reasonable logic.That article contradicts itself. The Spectator is comparable to Fox News or Ezra Levant's garbage.
There are hundreds of turbines here in MB, they are definitely producing energy.
I have seen hundreds in the US Midwest as well. Whoever built them didn't do it to get zero energy.
Almost every trip down south I see those huge trailers with blades on them on the interstate.
How can you say they provide zero global energy?
One a week? Source for that?China is adding a coal fired power plant online per week
As was stated it's near zero when talking whole numbers and I believe it. I think that was solar and wind. But give it time and it will become much more prevalent.That article contradicts itself. The Spectator is comparable to Fox News or Ezra Levant's garbage.
There are hundreds of turbines here in MB, they are definitely producing energy.
I have seen hundreds in the US Midwest as well. Whoever built them didn't do it to get zero energy.
Almost every trip down south I see those huge trailers with blades on them on the interstate.
How can you say they provide zero global energy?
FYI, leaf is a Nissan electric vehicle, not Honda....Ya the gas distributors can jack the prices all they want, the car salesman at Honda (Leaf), Tesla, Mercedes (Smart) and many others love it.
Sure, warp drive like on Star Trek.There are new more efficient batteries on the way . And as for power to wight ration on a jet. . If the energy to run the plane is only a third the coast of jet fuel and the engine need less matanece because there is no combustion damaging parts..Then maybe we will go back to small passenger loads to acomadate larger battery storage or hybrid power sours to propel the plane.
I have no idea where you got your #s from, but no-way-no-how is US a net oil exporter.No, oil is not on its way out.
Not any time soon.
High oil prices are the only thing that makes alternatives viable.
High prices generated by limited supply.
Fracking has basically ended the supply issue for at least a few hundred years.
The US became a net oil exporter a couple years ago once they developed the technology to tap their deep shale oil deposits.
The US has 1,000 years of reserve at current consumption levels.
Canada has larger shale deposits than the US, and China has more than all of North America.
I actually see this as bad news.
The environment can't withstand another couple hundred years of burning fossil fuels.
what the world can't withstand is more peopleThe environment can't withstand another couple hundred years of burning fossil fuels.