Tuesday, November 23, 2010

[TED] Richard Sears - planning for the end of oil

He says:
-there is a lot of oil all over the world (app. 100 trillion gallons)
-people may predict that it's OK just because we have a lot of it
-In the last 150 years, oil has been an important energy source, but has been decreasing for the last 25 yrs
-there was a peak wood, a peak coal, and a peak oil / in the future he predicts that there will be natural gas and renewables peaks
-energy sources have been becoming less carbon intense
-rearranging molecules can create totally different substances (chalk to stone)


Question:
Would there have to be chemists and geologists to figure out the method?
What happens after the peak renewables?


One word:
prediction
-we hypothesize and experiment in order to find out if our predictions are right. It this one right?

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