Oil Spills

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Oil Spills

WoRrIeD (guest) 21 Jun 2010 19:32

This may not be 2012 related, but this is going to have an affect on humans. I mean at the rate we are polluting everything, we will be lucky to be here in 2 years. Two large oil spills scares me. I mean, what will the world be like, if 2012 comes and goes without a hitch, when our kids have kids?

Re: Oil Spills

TheGreatJuju 22 Jun 2010 16:31

This may not be 2012 related, but this is going to have an affect on humans.

Every eco-disaster does.

I mean at the rate we are polluting everything, we will be lucky to be here in 2 years.

Er, I think that's an exaggeration.

Two large oil spills scares me.

Well, it's certainly a colossal mess, and I wish we had an alternative to oil, but we don't. At least, I'm not aware of anything that compares from the perspective of cost vs. energy output.

I mean, what will the world be like, if 2012 comes and goes without a hitch, when our kids have kids?

I don't know, but that will not be determined by one oil spill, or even two.

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Re: Oil Spills

Winters1 21 Jun 2010 22:37

We dont know what the world is goign to be in 20 years from now but all i know its going to be changing for sure. Oil spill will be cleaned up areas affected by them will have a hard time to recupe but will get thru. That is part of life i wish that they would go to something else then fossal fuels. Thay have all kind of idea out there but you and me it seem like the oil companie are probably preventing this new energy to get started its all about money money money.

Re: Oil Spills

Marko S 22 Jun 2010 16:42

It is getting more and more expensive to drill oil every single day. Some decades down the road, drilling oil will not be worth the costs any more. And fossil fuels are bound to run out. There is no way around this reality.

Humanity WILL gradually change from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources (wind, solar, geothermal, waves, hydrogen, maybe even fusion energy if they can get it to work). I see this as a simple economic reality. Fossil fuels are becoming more and more expensive every day. The economic advantage is already shifting to renewable energy sources.

In a hundred years, our technology will be low-consumption (uses very little energy in the first place) and it will be powered by a variety of different localized renewable energy sources. Individual houses will produce their own energy (for example, with highly efficient solar panels) and even sell it to the local community etc.

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Re: Oil Spills

3WMElliott 22 Jun 2010 21:25

Or this - I mean come on, that'd be cool.

Certainly we tend to think on our own time scales rather than for the future, and an oil spill like this probably won't change the way most people think until the time scale dictates that something else is needed, or is better, more cost effective, yada yada. That is to say we all know about alternative sources of energy it's just that, meh, right now oil works.