Comment The only solution is... (Score 1) 764
"Vetroleum"
http://puregreencars.com/Green-Cars-News/Technology/john_rivera_claims_he_can_produce_limitless_fuel_from_farm_waste.html
There is no other, available now, backward compatible, sustainable, environmental, socially expedient technology out there, and Vetroleum needs to be backed by every government in the world - buying out the patents and making the technology public domain, if necessary.
Without oil there is no photo-voltaic solar, no modern agriculture (fertilisers and pesticides come almost exclusively from by-products of the petroleum industry), no mining. It took 50 years and 2 world wars to build the petroleum economy and infrastructure, and hydrogen is only in its infancy. Vetroleum bolts onto the existing oil industry with little change to any infrastructure. It makes farming more cost effective and CO2 neutral, too.
According to the German report, we have 15 years, according to the US one, we have as little as 5 years. Hydrogen is not going to be wide enough spread in California, let alone the rest of the world, in 5 years. Vetroleum could be rolled out in 5 years if we start now. It could also end all those oil wars in the Middle East.
http://puregreencars.com/Green-Cars-News/Technology/john_rivera_claims_he_can_produce_limitless_fuel_from_farm_waste.html
There is no other, available now, backward compatible, sustainable, environmental, socially expedient technology out there, and Vetroleum needs to be backed by every government in the world - buying out the patents and making the technology public domain, if necessary.
Without oil there is no photo-voltaic solar, no modern agriculture (fertilisers and pesticides come almost exclusively from by-products of the petroleum industry), no mining. It took 50 years and 2 world wars to build the petroleum economy and infrastructure, and hydrogen is only in its infancy. Vetroleum bolts onto the existing oil industry with little change to any infrastructure. It makes farming more cost effective and CO2 neutral, too.
According to the German report, we have 15 years, according to the US one, we have as little as 5 years. Hydrogen is not going to be wide enough spread in California, let alone the rest of the world, in 5 years. Vetroleum could be rolled out in 5 years if we start now. It could also end all those oil wars in the Middle East.