Facts on the need for oil and gas

Gardener

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No question oil and gas has many uses in society that can’t be substituted yet. That said, if we want to attack climate change the most common sense first step is to rid ourselves of thermal coal used in power generation. We have so many viable substitutes for electrical generation from other sources that we simply don’t need it anymore. This trend has started already with the closure of many plants, but it needs to accelerate.
 

masterblaster

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No question oil and gas has many uses in society that can’t be substituted yet. That said, if we want to attack climate change the most common sense first step is to rid ourselves of thermal coal used in power generation. We have so many viable substitutes for electrical generation from other sources that we simply don’t need it anymore.
So many viable substitutes? Such as solar when the sun doesn’t shine. Wind turbines when the wind doesn’t blow. Those are real viable alright.
 

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So many viable substitutes? Such as solar when the sun doesn’t shine. Wind turbines when the wind doesn’t blow. Those are real viable alright.
Ever heard of base load nuclear, hydro, natural gas turbine??? I suggest you read up on the topic rather than parroting the anti renewable talking points coming out of Fox News. Seriously!!
 

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Ever heard of base load nuclear, hydro, natural gas turbine??? I suggest you read up on the topic rather than parroting the anti renewable talking points coming out of Fox News. Seriously!!
yes, but the problem is the nutters like Greta, May, our climate Barbie, ect....

they are also against Nuclear, even though it's no where near 3 mile Island, Chernobyl anymore, it has advanced, the technology, the media won't advance that side of the story and people are too stupid to listen

look at the knee jerk reaction in Germany after Japan's situation, they're still on coal to a significant degree

the virtue signalers also don't want natural gas either, that's carbon after all

and most of the developing world can't afford or don't have access to what you mention, so they use coal, because it's cheap

Canada already has mostly Hydro, we still can't meet our emission targets

we've dammed up pretty all rivers we can, like that doesn't have consequences

where you going to get the electricity needed to replace the millions of cars that are going to be electric?

for just 36 million?

not to mention the planes/helicopters, or are you going to spit on those forest fires?

not to mention the trains, transport trucks, heavy equipment?

where are the substitutes for them?

viable, real functioning substitutes?

look at where most of the energy in the WORLD is coming from, it's carbon based, last stat I saw it was still above 80%

SCALE, VIABLE, SCALE

for 7 Billion

substitutes don't exist for that

for Justin, Greta, May, Gore, sure

for everyone, no
 

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So many viable substitutes? Such as solar when the sun doesn’t shine. Wind turbines when the wind doesn’t blow. Those are real viable alright.
It doesn't matter if the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn't shining because North America is on a grid and there's wind, sunshine and water flowing over dams somewhere.

Renewable energy is in many forms, and all of them make a lot more sense than burning coal.
 

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Ever heard of base load nuclear, hydro, natural gas turbine??? I suggest you read up on the topic rather than parroting the anti renewable talking points coming out of Fox News. Seriously!!
Tell me when the last nuclear power plant was built in North America.
 

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It doesn't matter if the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn't shining because North America is on a grid and there's wind, sunshine and water flowing over dams somewhere.

Renewable energy is in many forms, and all of them make a lot more sense than burning coal.
So the sun shines all the time in North America? I don’t think so.
 

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solar and wind power rely on batteries

solar panels have to be replace every 20 to 25 years
batteries have to be replaced every 15 years but start to loose there ability after 5 years
wind power, the pillons are starting to bring heavy metal up to the water table an polluting it
Wind power you need to read the contracts, some of these contracts have big surprises in them which makes not efficient

nuclear has problems with waste storage

it will be quite awhile before we have viable clean energy
 

Gardener

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There are two currently under construction in the US that will generate 2300 MW of base load power. The US is the largest generator of nuclear power in the world.

Tell me when the last nuclear power plant was built in North America.
 

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So the sun shines all the time in North America? I don’t think so.
Sun doesn't shine at night when usage is the lowest, but wind keeps blowing and water keeps flowing over dams.

This is almost the year 2020. I have a tiny computer in my pocket that I can watch TV on in the middle of nowhere. Do you really think we still have to burn dead dinosaurs to run our dishwashers?
 

masterblaster

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Sun doesn't shine at night when usage is the lowest, but wind keeps blowing and water keeps flowing over dams.

This is almost the year 2020. I have a tiny computer in my pocket that I can watch TV on in the middle of nowhere. Do you really think we still have to burn dead dinosaurs to run our dishwashers?
If there is water flowing over dams then that’s a serious problem. The generally accepted origin of hydrocarbons is small marine organisms. Dead dinosaurs have nothing to do with it.
 

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Nuclear is the viable alternative for the near future to make up electricity for the electric grid, till solar and wind can come online and be stored. Its the problem of storage of electricity that is the problem for solar and wind.

See on Netflix "Bill Gates Brain", 3 part documentary that talks about Mr. Gates, how he has put time/money into research for new nuclear reactors and other technology. I have seen YouTube videos talking about new batteries for electrical storage (one was at MIT, where again Mr. Gates was interested in investing in).

Oil is burned directly by the transportation industry boats, ships, Semi-trucks, cars, truck which produces CO2. Again in Canada there are coal plants (or nuclear is used) where hydro-electric power is not available.

The transportation industry need to go all electric... yes that means electric cars and inner city transports that run off electric, not gas or diesel.

Rail can be done by electricity.

Personal transport by electric trains etc. The infrastructure needs to invested in. Maybe an investment scheme of crowdfunding where you pass your investments onto your grandkids grandkids.... long term

Land will have to be confiscated at current market vale for transport routes. Yup that will start some screaming....

People out of jobs like trucking get put to work on new infrastructure.

The federal and provincial and local governments all have to earn their pay in organizing new transportation routes.

Our society had to change from money hungry idiots to people that put others first (care for other people), just like here on PERB where we can see how much we like each other by telling people to F off.....

The coal can be used to produce plastics etc.

Micro plastics in water to be filtered. Ocean going ships to harvest the plastic floating in large islands off large rivers etc.
 
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