Like any other limited resource, it's not a matter of stopping our use, it's more a matter of how we use it, how fast we use it, what impact it has, and whether our ecosystem can handle the waste.
They said that once about whale oil too. Didn't work out great after awhile. Wood, regenerates in a relatively short 50 yr or so cycle. That is many magnitudes less than millions of years old carbon. There is a difference between using any resource and abusing it.
Absolutely yes. I have never bought into the ludicrous need for that level of acceleration.
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Could be right, demand growth from China and India is a major factor, but then again many current forecasts are based on past data. OPEC's forecasts are down 1 BB/day from last year's forecast. We shall see.Sorry, but I disagree with the premise of this thread, a 9% reduction in global oil consumption is relatively small given the wide-sweeping lifestyle changes in the past year due to Covid. The US EIA is predicting only 3% less consumption for 2021 when compared with 2019, pretty much business as usual.
In the news today. Denmark just pulled the plug on new drilling.
Denmark set to end all new oil and gas exploration
The European Union's largest oil producer plans to stop extracting fossil fuels by 2050.
Could be right, demand growth from China and India is a major factor, but then again many current forecasts are based on past data. OPEC's forecasts are down 1 BB/day from last year's forecast. We shall see.
OPEC cuts long-term forecast for oil demand growth, sees 'continued disparity’ in climate policy
OPEC said worldwide oil demand was expected to increase by nearly 10 million barrels per day over the long term.www.cnbc.com
Like I said, don't much care really. I like my V8 Suburban too.
Yep, placed here all for us.
On my way home from work there is an intersection to stop at. Just past it is a 3/4mi long hill to climb, then pretty much smooth from there on. Most times I just ramp up the rpm to such and such, move along, get it done, as most others do. And occasionally having to avoid the race car drivers who like to test their skills, but rarely. One time I stopped behind one of those teslas. Nice car. Very rare around these parts. It took off like a shot and was gone out of sight in seconds. What transpired was a stupid joke. Dozens of cars turning into arshol mania trying to punch it to the top. I'm all for fine tuning what we have, making the world a better place, enjoying the benefits of a cleaner world, leaving it better than we found it. But oh joy, looking forward to the increased performance, and that 60% vs 30% efficiency being wasted immediatly.
Yes, we tend to do this, it's all part of the condition. Another example is buying low fat food, and feeling justified in eating lots of it, just switching the kind of calories. I suspect most electric cars will have acceleration capacity far above the ice cars they are replacing. And I suspect that there will be plenty of folks who won't be able to handle it and end up in the ditch, or worse. Although I understand they are building technology to stop or at least greatly reduce the accidents.
US EIA predications are historically laughably bad - just look at reports for any year in the last 15 years predicting growth of solar and wind (renewables). Always wrong, by huge amounts. Nearly all of their predictions are based on very simplistic trend continuance. They are incapable of predicting when the knee of the demand curve may occur (either up or down).
I don't conveniently forget anything about the source of power for my electric car - I know it comes from my 15 kW solar array. I know that because I plug it in to charge when it is sunny and producing power. And if I didn't, that solar power output is offsetting other power generation - the power is not being wasted.
Yes, the tired and false talking points about centralized energy generation being as bad as a bunch of ices spewing their own pollution is, well, tired.
