UK ministers ignored 'peak oil' warnings, report shows

Juliaw · Post by **Juliaw** » 15 Jun 2011, 12:30

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... il-warning

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 15 Jun 2011, 12:33

http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/vie ... highlight=

featherstick · Post by **featherstick** » 15 Jun 2011, 12:38

Why's LB3's thread locked, though?

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 15 Jun 2011, 12:42

featherstick wrote:Why's LB3's thread locked, though?

Don't need two of them....

Lord Beria3 · Post by **Lord Beria3** » 15 Jun 2011, 12:59

Read the report, rather good really.

Good to see that somebody has been thinking about PO.

Mean Mr Mustard · Post by **Mean Mr Mustard** » 15 Jun 2011, 17:28

Didn't see anything in there about closer coupling to food prices, scalability of alternatives, flow rates, net energy or the export land model. But hydrogen powered aircraft, (from the undiscovered hydrogen reserves?) well, that's a possibility for the longer term. 2/10.

ziggy12345 · Post by **ziggy12345** » 15 Jun 2011, 19:25

Hydrogen powered aircraft? Seeing as hydrogen has about 3% of the energy of aviation fuel by weight, i doubt it

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 15 Jun 2011, 20:43

Ok, it wasn't actually hydrogen powered, but it could be now.

Mean Mr Mustard · Post by **Mean Mr Mustard** » 15 Jun 2011, 21:42

Comrades!

Reads like a badly written Pravda press release -

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-155

My spies tell me the main problem was that the fuel tanks took up most of the passenger compartment area. Strictly experimental. Not forgetting you need an energy source to produce the hydrogen, conversion losses, blah blah...

Za Rondina!

Meanovitch Mustardski

DominicJ · Post by **DominicJ** » 16 Jun 2011, 08:34

Theres still quite a lot of quiet research going on with airships.
Very much in the "ship" sense of the word though.

Still, 20-30 miles an hour is 480-720 miles a day.