The Daily Energy Report for Wednesday, January 27, 2010 discusses the impact of less industrial oil demand on overall market prices, Ted Turner partners with Southern Company to find alternative energy projects and GM to become the first major US automaker to build electric motor plant.
Duration : 2 min 42 sec
I’m not saying I’m against renewable energy. I’m just wondering - what would everybody do with their car that runs on regular gas?
I think we are a long way from renewable energy replacing the combustion engine. When I think of renewable energy I think of electricity for houses and businesses. But when we do settle on one or a few technologies to replace the conventional gas engine. I think there will be a transitional period where new cars will have the new technology but we will still have the infrastructure for gas engines, it could take decades to phase out the older cars.
Here in CA we have tougher emissions laws, so if you have an older car you could get an exemption for not passing emissions, it was a program that let just the oldest cars be exempt, then every few years they let a few more years be exempt. Now all the cars that were sold after the date the laws went into effect have to pass smog, if you didn’t buy the car in CA then you will need to get a catalytic converter put on it to pass. Millions of cars are junked each year, when you turn in an old clunker when you buy a new car they are often sold for scrap and they are taken off the road. All that being said, to say that people won’t be forced to convert cars or get rid of them for many many years.
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Alright, we cannot drill, we cannot have nuclear power.
I wish I could take a leak into my car and make it run, but the technology is not there right now.
How long before we can make semi-trucks and airplanes that can run on renewable energy?
I’ve seen these vehicles with 30 batteries on them, but they can hold no more than a suitcase (if they have a trunk at all) and the waste from the batteries is more toxic than gasoline emissions. By they way, they cannot run at freeway speeds.
Most experts I’ve read are reluctant to even give a time table, since less than 1% of our total energy now comes from renewables. Richard Heinberg, author of "The Party’s Over," has this to say:
“An analysis of the current energy alternatives is not reassuring. Solar and wind are renewable, but we now get less than one percent of our national energy budget from them; rapid growth will be necessary if they are to replace even a significant fraction of the energy shortfall from post-peak oil. Nuclear power is dogged by the unsolved problem of radioactive waste disposal. Hydrogen is not an energy source at all, but an energy carrier: it takes more energy to produce a given quantity of hydrogen than the hydrogen itself will yield. Moreover, nearly all commercially produced hydrogen now comes from natural gas–whose production will peak only a few years after oil begins its historic decline.”
http://www.oilcrash.com/articles/party.htm
Given the lack of funding for research into renewable energy, the absence of urgency and political will to convert to cleaner sources of fuel, the overwhelming cost of a complete conversion, the huge technological and logistical problems associated with the deployment of new energy systems, and the fossil fuel industry’s stranglehold on energy policy, it will be a very long time before fossil fuel goes away — well over 50 years.
Oil depletion will probably have a bigger effect on the effort than concern over greenhouse gas emissions; that is, when the cheap oil is gone, we’ll be forced to turn to other sources of fuel. But it also takes a lot of energy to develop new technology and replace the old, and we’ll be doing this at a time when energy will already be scarce — something Heinberg talks about in his book.
