doug.blair
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Commented on 2512
@dirk.bruere: While the specifics of your post have some problems -- energy transportation is a big deal, 10x current world electricity production is not enough to sustain everybody at first-world levels, etc -- I'll accept the general point that the...
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Commented on 2512
Coal supplies are likely vastly overstated: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5256 And oil shale supplies are very uncertain: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9569 The pessimist in me thinks this is just enough carbon to fully cook us, and not enough to power us into something better....
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Commented on 2512
I think energy scarcity is likely to be a larger problem than this (thoughtful) suggests. We've backed ourselves into a corner wrt energy supply; we don't have that much carbon left to burn (compared to our appetites), and replacement technologies...