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Originally Posted by JSH
You are right. The numbers don't matter because you are continuing to talk about primary energy... then the end of liquid fuels .... the climate change.
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I know it is a shock to most people when they first learn about total primary energy consumption and I am sorry. But it is important to know about.
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So many people that even think about these things have the impression that all we have to do is replace electricity (they call it POWER) with solar and wind and then we will have it made. But this, as challenging as it is, only gets us 1/5 of the way there to continuing our current growth based economy.
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And by the way:
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The original poster has also mentioned the option of going back to coal powered steam ships and trains and coal heat, as oil gets more remote and ridiculously expensive in 20 years, in the other thread if you want to read through it.