[TheForge] OT biodiesel now hydrogen

[Justin Fellenz]

You're right. Should be an interesting transition.

JRF
--- Kevin Gallagher <anvil1999 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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>
> >Reply-To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> >To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> >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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