CrossTalk: Life After Oil

In this edition of Peter Lavelle's CrossTalk, he asks his guests how long the world can remain addicted to oil. What is, or should be, our energy future? Should we embrace green technology to replace our current addiction to carbon fuels? (Though there are those who believe this an unrealistic scam at the moment). Is the future path nuclear energy, considered by many as far safer today than a generation ago? A combination of both? Or is oil the only real answer for the near and medium term?
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[Mrquadracer1]

Well stop talking and put it to work.We needed an alternative energy source yesterday!

[BigSponduli]

What are people's opinions on nuclear fusion (not fission which is what people are talking about when they talk about "Nuclear Power"). May be quite a way off, but it's also critically underfunded and could potentially end every worry about 1. running out of sources of energy and 2. the environmental impact of producing energy.

[gergar121]

oh guys we will run out of uranium one day too you cant make uranium. Then we will use coal oil and then some other energy thing unill we are smart enough to make solar power so powerful we will need none other or unless we can make air a enegry or a gas....... This is all bullcrap guys we need to use mult energy coal oil and corn oil for airplanes electic and solar for cars, nulcear, wind, and hyro for turning on the lights, and stuff like that. Its like stocks you can just invest in one.

[Skoda130]

@vegatron77 No, it's not, because there's nucleair waste that will be a danger for millennia to come, and it's limited, just like oil. Resource's like uranium, just like oil, will not last forever. There will be no replacement for oil, and we will need to scale down our energy consumption on the long term, if we don't want to go back to the dark ages.

[john244innewton]

The retarded moron who wrote the previous comment needs a spanking. SIBUK, just gather up your pencils and crayons, call your Mother, tell her you forgot to take your medicine this morning, go straight home, get Dad's 9mm semi-automatic from his closet, and shoot yourself in the head.

[SIBUK]

What a bunch of stupid useless cunts. They seem to be under some kind of delusion that there is infinite uranium in the world. Do they think that god comes along while they sleep and takes a big uranium-encrusted magical shit on the earth and so we can therefore run the planet on infinite magical god shit?! If we replace all the power stations on the planet with nuclear ones the uranium will last only about 20 years, so this is no solution at all.Fusion is the only option (if it's even possible)

[89Djm]

We can extract Uranium from sea water. Thats enough to last thousands of years, same goes for Thorium on last.

[samage1337]

Without oil, how are you meant to mine uranium and coal?

[mannyman1012]

we will just have to wait and create some new miracle product.



[Gaznugget]

@vegatron77

Nuclear energy can't replace oil. Oil is used for transportation, fertilizers, plastics (aka nearly everything we use) so personally I think the answer is downsizing everything and embracing New Urbanism. Local economies, locally grown food, and the end of the greedy car empire (unless we find a mirracle renewable fuel with no emissions)

In the future I believe people will honestly be happier and get more worth out of life without oil.