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Unlike successive craven British governments, the German Government is being relatively open with its population about energy constraints. It has laid it on the line that the alternative to wind farms everywhere is either nuclear power or blackouts. Can you imagine the British Government being so c...

Tried this three times; the first two times I got into "language", where like others I got stuck; the third did indeed get me to "Philosophy" (in eleven). Here is another attempt at a Law, which has worked twice for me (and that is the full extent of the empirical proof): When yo...

And still not a single link, or anything else, to anything, whatsoever, anywhere about why Peak Oil isn't going to happen in our lifespan. How is anybody to "prove" that something is not going to happen, when that "something" is so nebulous and ill-defined? Let's get this out of...

**** off with the attitude. Looking through this thread I would say RGR had taken quite a lot of abuse, not started by himself, before losing patience. He was called an a-e and told he was talking b-s for making the entirely reasonable and sensible comment that it is possible to reduce personal oil...

Of course, falling demand is just the inevitable consequence of falling supply. The lower the price, the less the oil companies will invest in new supplies. (waits for snide comments from usual suspect..... :wink: ) Could somebody explain this please? What is it in your statement that you think wil...

Row over windfall tax on offshore drilling provokes possible closure of field that produces 6% of nation's gas. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/01/centrica-threatens-shut-morecambe-gas Did Osborne just lock out much of the remaining indigenous oil and gas reserves? Doubt it, but if he did - i...

The basics of peak oil theory are so damned simple that any reasonably intelligent ten-year-old could grasp it. Predicting the precise consequences of it - the entire series of world events that would accompany it - is beyond the capacity of the most intelligent, highly-educated polymath alive. Cor...

What is written on the wall? I have commented before on the value of the Brit educational system before. I shall refrain from doing it again. Going back to where we were before we got onto a digression about the UK education system - Undercover Elephant's question was a fair one. It was not clear f...

Says who? There are loads of technologies under development, some of them very well advanced, which will enable us to move away from fossil fuel use as and when we have to. So solar, wind, nuclear fission, hydro, biofuels, tidal, geothermal, hydrogen, demand management and energy efficiency are all...

Fusion? It's been forty years away for forty years now and still is. What else makes up these 'loads'? So solar, wind, nuclear fission, hydro, biofuels, tidal, geothermal, hydrogen, demand management and energy efficiency are all useless no-hopers? In case you've missed an episode Keepz, we've alre...

Says who? There are loads of technologies under development, some of them very well advanced, which will enable us to move away from fossil fuel use as and when we have to. Fusion? It's been forty years away for forty years now and still is. What else makes up these 'loads'? So solar, wind, nuclear...

Health warning! That was written by Chris Booker, arch global warming denier. That man is bonkers. He is that, but he is not the only one who makes selective use of scientific evidence to justify his political agenda; and his figures regarding electrical output from coal and renewable sources are n...

We have worked under the assumption that by the time the crunch came, our descendents would have figured out a technological means of escaping from it. This turns out to have been a very foolish and dangerous assumption. Says who? There are loads of technologies under development, some of them very...

Others – including many governments and energy companies – believe the peak to be decades away and argue that as oil becomes more expensive to extract, the market will naturally redirect investment towards alternative energy sources. The only teensy weensy ickle problem with that argument is that i...

kenneal wrote:

vtsnowedin wrote: but every other alternative leaves billions ether freezing to death in the dark or drowned by rising sea levels or poisoned by air pollution.
Just like voting you have to choose the lesser of two evils.

That sounds like four evils to me.

You forgot fanatical devotion to the Pope.