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Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2011, pp. 165-191
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Table 4 Characteristics of Energy Resources
Fuel Renew Low
net
energy
Characteristics of Energy Resources
Waste/
danger
Only
Public
power
Vehicles Other
problems
Oil sands W Degrades
Environment
Gas Total energy
reserve less
than coal
Coal Liquid Liquid Pollutant
Shale oil W Degrades
environment
Nuclear W D Terrorism
Geothermal Decline
Biomass Food
competitor
Hydroelectric Silts up Up & down
stream degrades
environment
Solar Batteries
Wind Batteries
Wave Development
Tidal Development
Ocean
Thermal
Development
Hydrogen Development
Few
sites
Obviously, the world does not, at present, have the oil resources and
infrastructures to readily support growing universal economic
development as humans have grown accustomed to or expect with
anticipation in the future. And even if the world had the oil resources and
infrastructures, the escalating waste and pollution are huge problems,
which would make the planet dangerous for life, and eventually virtually
uninhabitable.
NEW SOCIETY
We must be clear on one thing. Peak Oil is about to force a new
society, whether we like it or not. And that society must be compatible
with the new environmental circumstances – an end to the plentiful
supply of cheap energy to fire up machine-based industrial civilization.
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