Post by Emperor AAdmin on Dec 29, 2007 14:14:39 GMT -5
Xalvas
(4/22/06 6:04 pm)
New Post: The end of oil age. What's next?
you can guess what's the topic about.
To begin with, the oil prices a couple of years ago, rarely exceeded 25-30$. When they did exceed 30$, the whole world went mad. Oil requires thousands of years to be created by nature, man only needs a few moments to make it disappear.
Today, we're experiencing the highest prices ever in oil history, well above 70$.
BBC article-link
What will the future be?
Obviously, there is now a demand to discover and develop new fuels, such us hydrogen.
Fuel cells. Hydrogen. (Wikipedia link)
Apart from the prices that have caused many problems already, there's the problem of pollution. To these, we might experience new problems, such as the gaps left bellow the ground due to the extraction of oil from them. Whether those are a potential risk of altering ground level (due eg to an earthquake) can't be clearly said. The hydrogen fuels aren't fully developed to be used commercially.
And of course, what would be the price of less advanced countries to obtain some new fuel technology in order to keep up with evolution?
(4/22/06 6:04 pm)
New Post: The end of oil age. What's next?
you can guess what's the topic about.
To begin with, the oil prices a couple of years ago, rarely exceeded 25-30$. When they did exceed 30$, the whole world went mad. Oil requires thousands of years to be created by nature, man only needs a few moments to make it disappear.
Today, we're experiencing the highest prices ever in oil history, well above 70$.
BBC article-link
What will the future be?
Obviously, there is now a demand to discover and develop new fuels, such us hydrogen.
Fuel cells are often considered to be very attractive in modern applications for their high efficiency and ideally emission-free (see renewable energy) use, in contrast to currently more common fuels such as methane or natural gas that generate carbon dioxide. However roughly 50% of all electricity produced in the United States comes from coal. The problem is that coal is a relatively dirty energy source. If electrolysis (a process that uses electricity) is used to create hydrogen using energy from power plants, it is essentially creating hydrogen fuel from coal. Though the fuel cell itself will only emit heat and water as waste, the problem of pollution is still present at power plants.
Fuel cells. Hydrogen. (Wikipedia link)
Apart from the prices that have caused many problems already, there's the problem of pollution. To these, we might experience new problems, such as the gaps left bellow the ground due to the extraction of oil from them. Whether those are a potential risk of altering ground level (due eg to an earthquake) can't be clearly said. The hydrogen fuels aren't fully developed to be used commercially.
And of course, what would be the price of less advanced countries to obtain some new fuel technology in order to keep up with evolution?