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Originally posted by sgtclub
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Let's say we move away from fossil fuels and towards the hybrid or electric model. Isn't that going to put a tremendous demand on non-fossil fuel electricity? It wasn't that long ago in CA that we were experiencing rolling electricity blackouts, and I have to believe that would only be exasperated.
So we shouldn't use fossil fuels and we shouldn't build new nuclear plants. How exactly are we going to meet our electricity needs?
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Hydrogen cells work off of water. Their emissions are called "steam." Solar is too expensive and cumbersome to make the effort to power vehicles with it. However, anybodywho has ever had a solar calculator should be able to intuit that the technology can be made to work on a small scale. Maybe at $8/gallon, it will become cost-efficient to finally get serious with solar.
I don't think we're ever going to be able to comletely wean ourselves from hydrocarbons. But as the resource becomes more expensive (and more dangerous to obtain) we will see more applications of renewaable resource technology. And the majors will probably be at the forefront of bringing them to us.
