Re: Are we screwed? - oil/wheat/water shortages
Right, but i believe the articles say that the amount of oil being produced is going to decrease by 1-3% per year, which because of compounding will create quite a problem. But lets say that through energy saving initiatives the western world reduces they oil use to 1990 levels or even just stops usage from increasing, and we cut off the eastern world, that would buy us an extra couple of decades. Which would give us the time needed to bring alternatives online.
I also thing hydrogen is BS, and wont be useful as a widespread system since we would have to build an entirely new infrastructure. I think it's much more likely we will go with electric since the infrastructure is already in place.
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