07-22-2022, 01:04 PM
(07-22-2022, 12:06 AM)grampahol Wrote: The problem I have with environmental issues is that we've been grossly mislead not about climate change, but what we can reasonably expect to happen in terms of the cars we drive and where we can expect to get energy from.
As much as I would love to see the alleged green revolution come to fruition we simply don't have sufficient sustainable supply lines to provide everything we need.
We know how to drill oil and how to sustain the supply lines, but what we don't have right now are the sustainable supply lines for all the raw materials needed to make the green revolution reality nor do we have enough mature technologies and industries. What is also left out is the fact that a lot of the things needed will require a lot of really dirty energy to manufacturer enough of the green technology to offset it all. It's damned if you do and damned sure damned if you don't. The lack of sufficient copper mines alone are a huge issue. Hint..electric motors for everything require a lot more copper than we currently have available. That's just the beginning.
We have the material and technology to implement most renewable energy plans.
The only problem is that right now fossil fuels are still considered "cheaper" because people don't count the cost of their financial impact on our environment. But I think there will be a big shift in that ideology when people out west start running out of water at the same time wildfires are burning everything.
Lack of refining capacity was a bigger reason for high gas prices in the United Sates than lack of crude oil. And oil companies are not going to invest in new refineries because they know that oil is not the fuel of the future.
