Richard Heinberg's Peak Everything - Part 3

Waking Up to the Century of Declines.
One of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators gives us his insight into the coming century. Recorded in Orewa on Tuesday 9th October 2007.

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[christo930]

Photo voltaics suck! Solar thermal is a much better solution, much cheaper and has more applications. Solar thermal can reduce your heating fuels a great deal even in the winter in Vermont. Solar thermal electric generation is better and cheaper and we can build vast solar thermal farms in the southwest and they produce the most when it's hottest out unlike wind which tends to die down in the heat. So when Texans turn on their AC, the solar thermal plant is producing the most energy.

[PUBLIUS8861]

All communities need to plan for their survival in a world without easy energy. Those commentators who can not understand that will most certainly wish to have the resources and food that transitional communities created. I would like to suggest there are alternatives to a dystopic visions of the future. It dose not help to pretend that this is not happening. Better to be prepared and create healthy communities, just like the small ones our great grandparents lived in before fossile fuels

[beastinblack]

We will have plenty of Soylent Green........

[beastinblack]

@auroraglacialis 'breeder' 'overpopulation' oh the irony!

[auroraglacialis]

@oliverhochron What I meant was, that people will use a lot of available options, eventually also those that are nasty and destructive. I see breeder reactors (actually an old technology that is already known to work) among them. I am not saying that I like that, to the contrary! I also think they will pursue biofules (which are unsustainable) and coal liquifidation to oil (which causes even more pollution than coal or oil) and many other things, each of them destructive. :(

[oliverhochron]

what is the chance that countries around the world switch over their nuclear reactors to breeder technology before we hit critical uranium reserves? i'd say slim to none even if all countries decided to make this a most urgent priority today. The largest likely untapped source of renewable energy may turn out to be ocean energy. Advancement with tidal and wave energy recovery in recent years has been much better than the rather dismal returns from wind and solar.

[simplyjbr]

@dinkolino2 Yeah! Totally! I mean all of those water resource specialists whining about how rivers like the Colorado and Ganges no longer reach their destinations- bullshit. All those whiny bitches "wah! wah! water rites are being bought by Nestle, and communities are being pumped dry!" Who cares about "communities"? Oh no, soil salinization is sucking up all the water - do I smell bullshit? Fresh water in ice caps melting into sea -bullshit! Oh, and you're an idiot.

[linghun]

@SgtThom Heinberg's eco-village idea has already been tried in the 1970s in Cambodia and Jonestown.

[SgtThom]

@linghun

It's typical for morons to reside to name calling in order to prove there losing point.

[linghun]

The imbecility of Richard Heinberg is unsustainable.