RE:RE:Europe and LNG filoux004 wrote: Great article, at the end of the day our economies ie infrastructured are too entrenched and will continue to depend on fossil energy for a next 100 years. Alternative energies will only be part of a multi prong strategy to lessen our dependency on one source of energy. It's roll out will take 100s of billions, political will and at least 25 years In my opinion the only true game breaker is a return to the Nuclear solution. Fusion Fission whatever, the safe technology is there what has to happened is a total rebranding ie proper campaigning to the convince populations of the world of the merits and yes potential dangers of this solution. In second I would put the massive deployment of Solar farms coupled with massive battery packs ie the Tesla solution. Third the Hydrogen option, still flawed because it will continue to rely on Fossil fuels to produce. Fourth off shore wind farms. Finally tailling at the end will be mini tentacles RNG, mini hydro installations, tide power etc etc. Long XBC , long summer ahead don't hold your breath Peace
I don't know what reserve of fossil energy the world has and for how many years we could still use it...... It's not really relevant because two things will completely change our consumption habits:
Of course it start with global warming.....the disastrous consequences of which will get worse and worse and from decade to decade will force even the most retrograde dinosaurs to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels.
The other factor of change that we are not yet really thinking about are the next generations of young entrepreneurs who will replace these old dinosaurs on all boards of managements.
These young people, who are already much more aware of the consequences of climate change, will have the courage to accelerate the processes required to meet the climate targets that their predecessors have consistently missed year after year.
It will be much easier for them to succeed because they never learned the bad habits of consumption that their predecessors had from the 60s / 70s