Yes Oil will still be needed.
It needed to make electricity, and is the only source for plastics (which make our lives wonderful). Not just for heating homes (oil, natural gas or wood), but also propels the vehicles we drive.
Oil is a hydrocarbon, so is wood and coal. All hydrocarbons when burnt; create heat which also produces CO2. Coal was the target for many years not for CO2 emmission but for its sulphur content which produced SO2, which when mixed with water in the atmosphere produced acid rain... Oil was then the go to for electricity plants, because the sulphur could be removed more easily from the oil. We use to have lead in the gasoline, because the lead made wear and tear on the gas engine less. We now have unleaded gas.
US started fracking a few years ago, in order to drive the price of oil down. In the meantime they will have major environmental factors to deal with in the future because of the fracking. There was an American Geologist in the 1950s, who predicted the peak production of oil for the US. That occurred in the 1970s. He also predicted that the world peak production will occur between 2020 and 2040. Now he may not of considered all the potential underneath the seas. So as the scarcity of oil looms, the more in price it will become. Hence the rising price of oil between 2000 and 2012. Then the Americans started fracking.... (short time gain for long time fuck over of the environment)
Electricity production in Canada. BC, MB and northern ONT is mostly hydroelectric. Quebec is hydroelectric from the Labrador dams. AB, Sask, NB, PEI, NS is natural gas/oil plants. Southern Ont is combo of Nuclear, and oil/natural gas. Pls note there is a shit-ton of hydro in Northern ONt, but there are hardly no transmissions lines to take all that capacity south.
Fuel cells need hydrogen to run. Hydrogen can be very explosive. A hydrogen tank on a moving vehicle... fun.. accident... big explosion... more fun....
The only foreseeable alternative to oil is Hydrogen. Hydrogen when it burns creates H2O (water). Hydrogen can be extracted from water using electricity (its only other product is O2)(using renewable solar or wind or wave). Using hydrogen in a fuel cell creates electricity. Hydrogen can be burnt, but it burns at a high temperature. A gas turbine could use hydrogen, but it requires specialized material to with stand the heat of combustion. Look up Hydrogen economy. But lets face it the people who have invested in oil, don't want it to go away, they like their money coming in.... Not to metion the guys making plastics.....
Although more renewable energy sites (and solar panels on houses, wind turbines) are being built, more electricity is being demanded too each year; which could be a factor why less than 1% is renewable energy worldwide.
Transportation: Most of the transportation is done by tractor-trailer (which uses fossil fuel); big diesel engines that use diesel to produce the power to haul the cargo. Trains are diesel engines too. Long distance hauling could be done by electric train, with thousands of substations provided by wind or solar farms. Or the train could be periodically supplied with train engines powered by fuel cells (hydrogen).
As for carbon emission (hot temperature- think about car exhaust), maybe most factories could be fitted with scrubbers to prevent excessive CO2 into the environment; but that might costs too much now or it slows production down. Then what to do with the CO2, after you removed it from the air. The other factor to take into account is that it is trees that turn the CO2 back into O2, but it takes mature trees to do this. How much are the vast forest in the world are being cut down especially the older trees.
In Canada we clear cut. Canada should outlaw this and have companies do selective logging, but that again cuts into short term profits and leave no trees for the next 60 to 90 years.
Its all about Money, and the people who cry the loudest are richest. Problem is the earth is running out of nice clean places to live while their quick schemes to get rich devour the environment. Eventually there will be no place that is not polluted for them to go. I guess they will have to live with the rest of us.....
It needed to make electricity, and is the only source for plastics (which make our lives wonderful). Not just for heating homes (oil, natural gas or wood), but also propels the vehicles we drive.
Oil is a hydrocarbon, so is wood and coal. All hydrocarbons when burnt; create heat which also produces CO2. Coal was the target for many years not for CO2 emmission but for its sulphur content which produced SO2, which when mixed with water in the atmosphere produced acid rain... Oil was then the go to for electricity plants, because the sulphur could be removed more easily from the oil. We use to have lead in the gasoline, because the lead made wear and tear on the gas engine less. We now have unleaded gas.
US started fracking a few years ago, in order to drive the price of oil down. In the meantime they will have major environmental factors to deal with in the future because of the fracking. There was an American Geologist in the 1950s, who predicted the peak production of oil for the US. That occurred in the 1970s. He also predicted that the world peak production will occur between 2020 and 2040. Now he may not of considered all the potential underneath the seas. So as the scarcity of oil looms, the more in price it will become. Hence the rising price of oil between 2000 and 2012. Then the Americans started fracking.... (short time gain for long time fuck over of the environment)
Electricity production in Canada. BC, MB and northern ONT is mostly hydroelectric. Quebec is hydroelectric from the Labrador dams. AB, Sask, NB, PEI, NS is natural gas/oil plants. Southern Ont is combo of Nuclear, and oil/natural gas. Pls note there is a shit-ton of hydro in Northern ONt, but there are hardly no transmissions lines to take all that capacity south.
Fuel cells need hydrogen to run. Hydrogen can be very explosive. A hydrogen tank on a moving vehicle... fun.. accident... big explosion... more fun....
The only foreseeable alternative to oil is Hydrogen. Hydrogen when it burns creates H2O (water). Hydrogen can be extracted from water using electricity (its only other product is O2)(using renewable solar or wind or wave). Using hydrogen in a fuel cell creates electricity. Hydrogen can be burnt, but it burns at a high temperature. A gas turbine could use hydrogen, but it requires specialized material to with stand the heat of combustion. Look up Hydrogen economy. But lets face it the people who have invested in oil, don't want it to go away, they like their money coming in.... Not to metion the guys making plastics.....
Although more renewable energy sites (and solar panels on houses, wind turbines) are being built, more electricity is being demanded too each year; which could be a factor why less than 1% is renewable energy worldwide.
Transportation: Most of the transportation is done by tractor-trailer (which uses fossil fuel); big diesel engines that use diesel to produce the power to haul the cargo. Trains are diesel engines too. Long distance hauling could be done by electric train, with thousands of substations provided by wind or solar farms. Or the train could be periodically supplied with train engines powered by fuel cells (hydrogen).
As for carbon emission (hot temperature- think about car exhaust), maybe most factories could be fitted with scrubbers to prevent excessive CO2 into the environment; but that might costs too much now or it slows production down. Then what to do with the CO2, after you removed it from the air. The other factor to take into account is that it is trees that turn the CO2 back into O2, but it takes mature trees to do this. How much are the vast forest in the world are being cut down especially the older trees.
In Canada we clear cut. Canada should outlaw this and have companies do selective logging, but that again cuts into short term profits and leave no trees for the next 60 to 90 years.
Its all about Money, and the people who cry the loudest are richest. Problem is the earth is running out of nice clean places to live while their quick schemes to get rich devour the environment. Eventually there will be no place that is not polluted for them to go. I guess they will have to live with the rest of us.....
