Richard Sears: Planning for the end of oil

http://www.ted.com As the world's attention focuses on the perils of oil exploration, we present Richard Sears' talk from early February 2010. Sears, an expert in developing new energy resources, talks about our inevitable and necessary move away from oil. Toward ... what?

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[lanksareit]

Necessity is the mother of invention.

[0MoTheG]

having oil or coal or anything else to burn is not the issue.

the CO2 and the price are the issues.

making oil from coal is old, but it doesn't help with the general problem.

[JRD123456]

technology isn't fuel.

[neo1131]

Well people better start innovating, because best case scenario there are 10-12 years of oil and 30-40 years of coal remain. It is hard to believe though, in 100 years we have exhausted a resource that took 3 billion years to accumulate. Yet the ignorant and dare I say stupid, think that somehow we have 100+ years of oil and coal. I guess math is really hard when you're snorting coke up your nose while daddy pays for you to go to Harvard.

[smiledammit24]

@quidproquo2004 Without stones you wouldn't have been able to make a fire, fend off predators, or make simple tools for farming.

[secretus3]

2015+oil=3$ per 1l no 1$ per 1l smile to the oil ;)

[quidproquo2004]

This was terrible. The people of the Stone Age didn't depend on stones to feed themselves. However, the people of Oil Age do depend on oil to feed its people.

[durkadurka91]

Yay, false information!

[StuntmanT]

why do most genuis's have big ears? XD