[TheForge] OT biodiesel now hydrogen

[Kevin Gallagher]

It is really just a matter of a few years before we (the world) come up with 
something different for fuel.  According to a recent report I heard on NPR, 
in the last 100 years we have use up 1/2 of the world's oil supply.  We are 
now consuming oil at three times the average rate we were over the past 100 
years.  So. we have 33 years of oil left in the world at our current rate of 
consumption.  Probably less because global consumption will only increase as 
countries like China and India become more industrial.

Kevin G.

>From: Justin Fellenz <sunironworks at yahoo.com>
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>Subject: RE: Re: [TheForge] OT biodiesel now hydrogen
>Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 06:16:01 -0700 (PDT)
>
>A friend of mine was telling methe other day that we have passed the
>oil peak, the point at which demand permanently outstrips possible
>supply of oil...happened sometime in the 70's, apparently. Same article
>by some economist argued that at somewhere around 5 bucks a gallon a
>big chunk of the country won't be able to get to work--so there will be
>a migration closer into jobs, a depopulation of the countryside,
>inflation--basically a big economic nightmare. I've heard 30-50 years
>till the oil's gone from a variety of sources, none of them too
>reliable; but the important date is much sooner, when the price goes
>up.
>
>Now, people are pretty resourceful and I tend not to put too much stock
>in these doomsday predictions, but if something like that were to
>happen, and the answer was an expensive technology like hydrogen, I
>wonder if we won't see some significant changes in the next few years.
>Interesting to speculate on the effect of a huge rise in price of
>perhaps the most fundamental of products.
>
>Hmmm. Horses? Maybe those Amish folks are on to something.
>
>Just musing,
>
>Justin
> >
> > IMHO, what will happen is that even when gasoline dissappears off of
> > the
> > face of the earth, hydrogen and other materials will be used to make
> > a
> > gasoline equivalent.  You can't beat it for power density and ease of
> > transport<G>.  Possibly the same could be said of diesel also.
> >
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