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One ( flawed )way to look to general fossil fuels is that they basically replaced ... slavery/peonage/unfree-peasant-try. That may not have been the only way, b
by ArkyBeagle 12y ago
One ( flawed )way to look to general fossil fuels is that they basically replaced ... slavery/peonage/unfree-peasant-try. That may not have been the only way, but it was in (low-resolution, crummy, more-or-less) fact what happened.
And spend the oil capex on what, exactly? Alts? If someone had a really good story on alts, they'd be trying to be the Emperor of alts, not just sitting there. Margins in oil stuff aren't good and it's got a lot of flywheel in skills, infrastructure and distribution. Spend a weekend driving around on the Eagle Ford shale some time.
Oil equipment uses solar panels because it's used close to off the grid. It's not like they don't know about it.
- Zigurd 12y agoAbout the only thing that's mature and could scale-up quickly enough is nuclear, and even that will take new-generation plants and new fuel cycles to escape the cost, safety, and waste problems of current nuclear plants. And we are starting with an inventory of nuclear plants that need to be replaced even before new nuclear capacity can displace oil. I'm certainly not trying to minimize the problem of switching away from oil.
- ArkyBeagle 12y agoI'd love to see nukes but the PR problems are huge. With the new gen. plants, I wonder how much existing waste is fuel in disguise?