Very well presented. The first half should be looked at by all politicians responsible for implementing the long term plans required to maintain our standard of living. But I disagree with the ultimate conclusions. All the problems presented including mineral, and water shortages (possible exception of overfishing) are solvable with other energy sources. Even ignoring LENR I am quite sure that we have access to all of the energy that humanity needs from alternative sources like solar, nuclear, wind at a price not far above today's very low prices.
But even without viable LENR there is a technology available that could manufacture oil and electricity from inexhaustible sources for a price about half of current oil and electricity. Not many people have heard of it but Heavy Ion Fusion would be a total solution: http://www.fusionpowercorporation.com/corporation 1 hour long presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2emKoMgZ03U In summary Heavy Ion Fusion uses a huge linear accelerator driver to fuse lead coated D-T targets, and is expected to cost about $20Billion for 100GW output (no sense in building smaller owing to ignition energy requirements). That is many times cheaper than nuclear and avoiding all the problems of nuclear power. HIF creates energy at high temp that can be used to create hydrogen in sulphur iodine cycle, that can then be combined with CO2 from the atmosphere to create hydrocarbons at about $50/barrel equivalent. Waste heat from hydrogen production can then make electricity and waste heat from electricity production can then do huge-scale desalination. A few hundred of these plants dotted around the world would provide for all of humanities future energy and water needs, and the technology does not require any breakthroughs - it could be built within 10 years using mostly 1970's technology - it is for example much simpler and more easily implemented technology than what NIF or ITER requires. And it is very compatible with existing infrastructure. The problem is that it requires the political will to spend $20-30 billion over 10 years to get it working - actually similar cost to ITER or about 2-3% of cost of the 'war on terror' http://costofwar.com/en/ but it would be a much cheaper way of ensuring access to oil than middle eastern intervention has been. On 1 April 2012 01:49, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote: > They paint a pretty gloomy picture. The unknown future has always appeared > limited, but somehow we seem to get through it and I think LENR will come to > the rescue this time. > > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Ellul <ellulpatr...@gmail.com> > To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> > Sent: Sat, Mar 31, 2012 8:05 pm > Subject: [Vo]:"There is no tomorrow" Video > > Most of you might have already come across this, but here it goes: > > About the future of > energy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOMWzjrRiBg&feature=share > > How much of the figures are for real? What about the gloomy conclusion? > > Regards, > > > -- > Patrick > > www.tRacePerfect.com > The daily puzzle everyone can finish but not everyone can perfect! > The quickest puzzle ever! >
