Running on Empty: Life Without Cheap Oil

It's not a question of if, but when. Futurist and author James Howard Kunstler talks about life in a world without cheap oil.

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[BlowinUPinMIA]

8,000 views on something important, 1 million views of eminem getting Tbagged at the MTV awards...so not really surprised that we are eventually doomed....to many stupid people in the world

[MrEnergyCzar]

It takes oil to mine and transport coal.... Our economies run on cheap liquid transport fuels, not liquid transport fuels made from coal, tar sands, or oil under 22,000 feet that isn't cheap....

[cyberlord64]

For some types of food you don't even need a farm. check out hydroponics.

We get 120 watts of usable energy per square meter. Experiment with solar cells. you can get them as cheap as 1$ per cell on ebay.

for heavy machinery methane gass can be produced from organic waste and diesel from the rapeseed plant.

keep up with the progress of renewable energy, try to get accustomed to it and everything will be just fine.

[darthvader5300]

@MrEnergyCzar As for oil, we Russians are decades ahead of you Americans when it comes to drilling for ultra-deep abiotic oil wells. We have 310 of such abiotic oil wells in Russia and helped the Vietnamese drill 2 to 3 abiotic oil wells in the White Tiger Oil fields in the South China Seas.

[darthvader5300]

@MrEnergyCzar If you will take a good and hard look at the uncensored history of the industrial revolution, you will see coal-fired steam engine powered earth moving equipment like shovels and trucks and trains and tractors and cranes being used by the coal mining industry, not to mention coal-fired steam engine powered electric generators providing electric power to underground mining equipment and compressed air to pheumatic drilling and breaking equipment.

[darthvader5300]

As a Russian, this video is just plain propaganda for it ignores other potential energy sources and unconventional fossil fuel sources like Russia's already producing 310 abiotic oil wells, oil well reaming technology that can make old oil wells new again wt restore original production oil output. The BREST reactors that recycles nuclear fuel indefinitely and consumes it's nuclear wastes and can be modified as a breeder reactor to power 60 to 70 new BREST nuclear power plants.

[darthvader5300]

The problem wt this video is that he did not view the problem three dimensionally in it's entire picture in it's complete entirety by simultaneously seeing it's past, present, and potential future that also includes other potential energy sources like 3rd, 4th generation nuclear power, vertical urban farming, close-loop industrial-agricultural biosphere ecosystems where the wastes of one industry is used as a primary raw material by an another industry. It is being done already, he didn't say it

[Versus1984]

He didn't mention another consequence of the dissapearence of cheap oil - the resurgence of nuclear power.

[tonymengela]

hemp, corn, and algae, can replace fuels for farming and the road, high speed electric trains can replace the rest through hydrogen and natural gas within 5 years.

[lonewolfmtnz]

Peak (sh)IT was. Bye bye misery monkeys.  Have a nice Die-Off!

[jgar6]

Has there been any headway on railroad transportation???