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or Salters Duck was an attempt in the 70's to harness wave power and although I have seen more recent attempt they all use really ungainly snake pontoons. Salters Duck was a simple Cam/Tubby Wing design linked together in a line and what amazed me was the footage of a small scale trial where the wav...

Maybe you are right - Metro paper reporting that energy will be unaffordable in 3 years time. http://www.metro.co.uk/news/900610-energy-will-be-unaffordable-in-three-years-as-bills-soar However this is the kind of thing we should use to push the government and banks to invest heavily in the developm...

Whatever as long as we all agree we need to get off this...

That's the spirit!

I was thinking more along the lines of this type of yacht.

It's basic human nature not to change until a critical event forces our hand. With politicians you only need to contact them and say you will change your vote unless they do something about the problem. With corporations you simply let them know you will stop buying their products unless they do som...

So you wouldn't agree with Ray Kurzweil's view on solar powers exponential potential or the Rocky Mountain Institutes - Reinventing Fire approach to transforming our energy infrastructure.

@RalphW, It sounds to me like you have just agreed with my last post. The price of oil goes up. This opens the way for: Less cost effective oil reserves to be tapped, e.g. Tar Sands, Deeper Reserves More efficient usage of the energy and alternate sources. But given that China, India and Africa are ...

My point is that in 33 years time there will be a massive global energy gap and oil will be too expensive and rare to fill it. In 33 years expect oil to cost the same as gold and yes people will still be finding and selling it but only the richest people on the planet will be using it to fuel their ...

I would disagree with your logic as it's based on the fact that no single oil field in history has been extracted at a constant rate until exhausted. One we are entering a post peak era, where demand for oil is pushing up faster than current supplies can match and therefore the price of oil is incre...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19148487/cmo.png Found this great concept for thinking about oil usage the cmo, or Cubic Mile of Oil. So based on the concept that we use 1 cmo per year globally and that we have about 33* cmo's left it's easy to work out that in 2044 we will be burning our last cmo. Now all...

The only problem is apparently the Saudi's have been saying they have more oil reserves than they do 40% more, and if other nations have been doing the same then the 54 years left of oil could drop to 32 years or less. Ouch 2044 darn it I'll could still be around. Anyone for an end of Oil Party Dec ...

We just need to reinvent fire...

http://www.ted.com/talks/amory_lovins_a ... nergy.html

Climate Change, the other side of the peak oil dilemma.

The main issue with Australia will be water, and the impacts of climate change, which you are already seeing as drought followed by flooding.

Why don't they get it Money is just a bartering system for energy! Your pension, mortgage, UK debt is all based on the idea that there will be enough energy/fuel for you and us to drive the economy and pay it all back. But with Oil due to run out in 2066* all the debt the world has built up collapse...

It's a simple look at the Oil left, and rate of use. I'm not speculating on the price market fluctuations or how long relatively tiny isolated pockets of oil that the world would drain in a matter of seconds at the worlds current rate of usage will last. What I'm interested in is the big picture giv...