Peak oil energy alternatives

My opinion on energy alternatives to peak oil. (sorry don't have time for a "deep" video at the moment). I've been busy with a few projects but hope to get back to making more frequent videos in a few months.

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[jburt56]

Coal to liquids? SASOL has been doing it for decades.

[lorax2013]

Yeah, and Germany did it too in WW2 - but only at great expense as a last resort because of oil embargoes in both cases.

[jdcremin]

Loren - what does "backwardization" mean?

[lorax2013]

Backwardization is when the price of a commodity contract in the future is less than the present (spot) price. This means speculators are betting the price will fall.

[swofts45]

I'd like to know what you think about sugar based (forget the corn) ethanol as used in Brazil.

[lorax2013]

It's economically viable at least - perhaps largely because they have very cheap manual labor. I still don't think it is a long term solution since it removes food production. Therefore I think it Brazil's ethanol prod will probably diminish as world PO squeezes food supplies. Lastly it is terrible for the environment and should be condemned/regulated for that reason.

[Mechman064]

I've been planning for peak oil and a really nasty economic depression for about 2 years now. I changed jobs to one close enough to bike commute to. I now fix buses for the county transit system. When people can no longer afford to drive their hummers to work many of them will ride the bus. When that happens they won't be laying off bus mechanics. That's the plan anyway. Ridership has already increased about 10% this year. Public transit should be a growth industry in the near future.

[ZiggyStardust2329]

I remember reading somewhere that the amount of uranium in the world is equivalent to that of tin. Which is a lot.

Great video.

[jcanivan]

Loren...Great summary of the peak oil production concept. There are many factors that control the price of oil. Oil commidity speculators are often blamed but the underlying controlling force will always be supply and demand. Until we learn how to live in harmony with limited resources we will have to live in the shadow of stress caused by an uncertain future.

We can change our lifestyle, but first we must want to change.

[jjstoney1]

I would like to invest many barrels of oil into solar panels. Help to ease our natural gas and coal usage at power plants at least. Continue to develop alternative fuels and stop the wasteful luxury lifestyle that the US (and the rest of the world trying to emulate us) has so far been living. The energy debt of fossil fuels is now or soon to come due.

[mytinytube]

good video. agreed that NG can offset the decline of light crude, the problem is that in order to meet demand in the US and CA, we'll need to rely almost entirely on imported LNG from places like Russia. Scaling up to allow increased imports of LNG is expensive and very political since a receiving terminal is a HUGE target for terrorism.  1 LNG tanker is the equivalent of a small nuke.

[finefilth]

on demand hydrogen fuel truck drives 3000 miles.... NO FUEL!

watch?v=Py8QYt54EpE

[finefilth]

peak oil is a lie.... dozens of substitutes including free energy technology are and have been suppressed for a century ....Even modest efficiency improvements to the internal combustion contraption are stonewalled by the energy parasites.

[GreyAutumn]

Nuclear power will save us.

[MrEnergyCzar]

Coal to liquids is desparate and dirty... no wonder hitler ran out of fuel to run his armies.... nothing has the power, pop and portability and cheapness of oil to run our economies....

[srglink]

you say nothing about algae biofuel

[MrEnergyCzar]

Alternatives yield less net energy ie coal to liquids, ethanol, shale oil from rock, tar sands, etc...you don't put one barrel in to any of these and get 40 barrels out like the mature declining fields we've been living on....

[ilovecrimemobalbo]

uncle martin????