energy for the 22nd century
Sun, 2008-07-06 11:51
#1
energy for the 22nd century
Sun, 2008-07-06 11:51
#2
By the turn of this century there'll be 9 billion people in the world mostly all in developed countries or emerging economies. Commercial oil will be long gone, replaced by nuclear and wind turbines. If the world population was half economically developed by then and the use of energy was twice as efficient due to high costs they'd need 9,300 Candu reactors to replace the oil. An alternative would be 4,100,000 2Mw wind turbines.
Sun, 2008-07-06 12:16
#3
Boom Boom
Happilly, I won't be around to witness these changes! [img]biggrin.gif" border="0[/img]
Tue, 2008-07-08 01:45
#4
That's Great, the G8 want the 200 countries of the world to half the emmission of C-O-2 by 2050. We'll need 3 thousand nuclear reactors just to replace half the oil. Better shake a leg, wot. 3000 / (2050 - 2008) =71 new reactors a year, world wide.
Alternatively 93,000 new wind turbines per year.
Plus there's coal and natural gas to replace.
Plus the world economy will have grown in four decades.
Wot.
Sun, 2008-07-13 17:44
#5
M. Spector
quote:
Originally posted by bruce_the_vii:
[b]...the G8 want the 200 countries of the world to half the emmission of C-O-2 by 2050.[/b]
quote:
The G8’s 50 per cent formula is objectionable on several counts:First, the G8 formula is a global cut, not one undertaken by the industrialized or Annex One countries, so big polluters like the US can actually free-ride on the rest of the world.
Second, the cut has no clear baseline. It was revealing that in announcing it, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda initially said it was from 1990 levels, then had to take back that statement and subsequently mentioned a 2000 baseline.
Third, this declaration of intent is not binding and there is no indication that the G8 want to bring their “commitment” fully under the United Nations climate negotiations framework that would bind its signatories. Indeed, the G8 announcement reinforces the G8 as a site for climate action that rivals the UN process and effectively subverts it. Not surprisingly, the G8 declaration emerged as part of a parallel process known as the “Major Economies Meeting.” The Major Economies Meeting is a US initiative to wrest decision-making on climate from the United Nations framework and process.
All in all, the G8 announcement is one giant step away from meaningful mandatory reductions and significantly increases the chances of the planet slipping into uncontrolled climate change.
[url=http://www.fdc.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=321]G8 Action Network[/url]
Sun, 2008-07-13 19:45
#6
My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams. This wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called "Max". To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time. When the world was powered by the black fuel. And the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel, they were nothing. They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed. Men like Max. The warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. And became a shell of a man, a burnt out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again...