Not about oil running out. Peak oil is here. You can’t build the new energy world when you can’t get easy to access oil to use as energy to build that world. Make action now to transition quickly even more critical
“They” have been crying that for decades, yet they continue to figure out more ways to destroy the Earth to extract some form of their precious “gold”
We have 42 years at “current consumption” before oil literally “runs out”, i.e. cost of recovery is greater than market value.
IMO, that gives us just enough time to make a major shift in energy production to green renewables.
Extensive use of hemp will balance the CO2 emissions in the next 42 years of transition .
It not about running out. It’s about the end to easy acess oil. Peak oil is the hump where more energy is needed to drill than the energy (oil) it will extract
You know, when we stop using oil, the Middle East will have an economic collapse. Not that we care, but those who want freedom in the Middle East might. Then again, the economic collapse might make things worse over there. Who knows.
And that will be in 42 years at current consumption. We are on the down-slope of the Bell curve and from now on we are consuming more than what we can find and produce.
- THE BELL-SHAPED CURVE
Finite resources tend to be exploited as fast as possible, resulting in an ever increasing “production” (“mining” is the more correct term), until a limit is reached, after which production declines. The result is the bell-shaped curve M. K. Hubbert showed the world in A.D. 1956:
https://peakoil.com/consumption/looking-back-10-years-after-peak-oil
You’re forgetting known reserves and economic recoverability: Antarctica! Uranium from sea water is infinitely more likely than weed power.
And how long will it take to make that techonolgy functional enough to replace oil?
We don’t have to worry about that. We have uranium ore to segue to clean, riskless thorium whilst building redundant solar with hydrogen output backup and fuel for large non-rail vehicles, with a side dish of wind. So we have a thousand years to bioengineer uranium (and hydrogen?! that’d be nice) from seawater (whilst desalinating it). Where weed fits in I can’t imagine. Man. Hmmm. When are we going to run out of lithium ore? [Afghanistan’s full of it.]
And when are we going to worry about climate change, you know the OP topic?
Energy and AGW are two different things. There is no shortage of energy producing sources. The sun gives us inexhaustible clean power. The problem is the safe, nonpolluting technology to convert it.
AGW is a product of air pollution. Lets just start with clean-up of our left-over messes before half of the living things on earth die.
It’s all talk talk talk, and no comprehensive plan that is being implemented.
Hemp is here it is easily grown , it scrubs the atmosphere from CO2, it has an abundance of non-polluting commercial uses. There is no talk needed. Plant it now!!!
Where? And how much to offset AGW from energy?
Start scrubbing tomorrow. WE HAVE EVERYTHING NECESSARY FOR PLANTING THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF HEMP!
It takes no energy to grow hemp. It can even be seeded by hand. It requires no fertilizers, no pesticides, very little water, very poor soil. Take the worst bare land and plant Hemp.
The hemp manufacturing technology and markets are available all over the world. The US is one of the few countries that does not grow hemp as part of its economy, because of the fossil fuel industry!
If I figure out how to move posts, I definitely will.
I found an old thread named Hemp? and made an entry. just yesterday
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Scientists and industry insiders are increasingly optimistic about hemp’s potential as a tool in the fight against climate change. They say it’s the world’s most versatile natural product and that it can supercharge efforts to avoid environmental catastrophe.
Hemp’s natural properties and ability to save land and water can benefit farmers when farmed on a large scale. Furthermore, many of the products made from it can help decarbonize industries. There is also potential that hemp can absorb significant amounts of carbon and improve soil fertility, something the world desperately needs right now.
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Order of magnitude 1000 acres is over a square mile. We need a billion acres. Where?
acres to square miles Conversion Chart Near 440000 acres
acres to square miles of
440000 acres = 687.5 square miles
450000 acres = 703.1 square miles
460000 acres = 718.8 square miles
470000 acres = 734.4 square miles
480000 acres = 750 square miles
490000 acres = 765.6 square miles
500000 acres = 781.3 square miles
510000 acres = 796.9 square miles
520000 acres = 812.5 square miles
530000 acres = 828.1 square miles
540000 acres = 843.8 square miles
550000 acres = 859.4 square miles
560000 acres = 875 square miles
Note: Values are rounded to 4 significant figures. Fractions are rounded to the nearest 8th fraction.
This subject text has been moved at request of mods. See “HEMP?” thread to continue an in-depth discussion on the properties of Hemp.
The problem is that you cannot legislate climate… Paying taxes on carbon emissions does not halt the carbon emission, it just makes it less profitable.
And there’s creative financing.
I think it was in this thread somewhere about a “Biofuels” credit for energy production.
Wood pellets are considered a Biofuel, because originally they were made from waste product.
But now, forests in the US are being cleared to make wood pellets for “Biofuel” in Europe. And the companies using the pellets are meeting their goals on paper while forests are destroyed in the US.
That is one of the aspects behind the lumber products shortage we have seen.