they can't even tell you if it will rain next week.
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Is Nuclear Fusion viable?
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I actually have clairvoyant powers...
Let me concentrate...
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
OK its going to rain next week.
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If it was up to them we'd still be driving carts with square wheels and dragging our birds around by their hair.Comment
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A quick question.
Billion pounds spent on science. Wouldn't this money be better spent on aid to Africa? Infact should not all the money in the world be spent on Africa?
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Actually.
A more serious question. How much of the world energy could come from growing vast quanities of BioDiesel, effectively a green and renewable energy source that does not add to the worlds carbon levels?
If the fuel were produced on a massive scale across all continents and used to produce electricity, would the world be able to give up oil as a fuel?Comment
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BioDiesel is made from modified vegetable oil, so yes it is oil.
What I meant was can the earth generate enough renewable vegetable oil to replace the mineral oil as our main fuel for transport and power stations?Comment
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I think biodiesel and bioethanol will be the main fuels of the twenty years or so after the Hubbert Peak. They just have so many advantages. they recycle atmospheric carbon, existing vehicles need little or no modification to use them (in Brazil, they use vehicles that you can use petrol or bioethanol in ANY proportion - you just put whatever's available in the tank, and the engine tunes itself for the mixture), and probably most important of all, the existing fuel supply infrastructure (petrol stations, tankers, pipelines, etc.) can be re-used, apart (possibly) from the refineries. They also provide a market for agricultural produce from a lot of poor countries, which have a good climate for growing (non-edible) oil-producing plants that currently don't have a market
Fuel cell technology is still too expensive, though v. small systems, using methanol rather than pure hydrogen might catch on soon in niche markets.Comment
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