Peak oil

[Hrusai]

ok so theres alot of valid points in that article, but theres alot of short sightedness as well, the writer seems to be categorically stating that renewables lack the versatility needed, and whilst no singular renewable or clean source of energy is versatile enough to cover all the different applications that oil can, but combinations of said renewables most certainly can.

now im not saying renewables are easy to setup and develope, or by any means easy to implement, they arent, they will require time effort and input from our society as a whole, both governmental and general, scientists need to be listened to, not jsut relegated to the post of crack pots wot invent stuff, they arent, they cover wide areas of expertise and can understand systems and optimise them far beyond any other individuals.

in my eyes were we to go down the route of clean and renewable we would certainly have to use up stockpiles of oil, as well as using novel methods to produce extra oil whilst we make the transition, such as the "magical" method of using sunlight to produce petrol from the air.

i also think that space based solar is one of the best ways to go, but would take roughly 5-10 years to perfect at our current rate of investment, but if we were to accelerate development and set more researchers with bigger budgets on the matter, its feasible to have the technology ready in under 5 years, hell if the funding was present and various agencies willing we could get it up and running in the next year, but that simply wont happen, governments are too stubborn and people are too greedy. 1m^2 of solar panel in space can generate the equivalent of over 42m^2 on earth! and by beaming it down in the form of microwaves, then transforming it back into proper electricity.

if we utilised current solar we could easily keep the juice flowing for houses easily, by coating roofs, using solar paint for walls, and also using low efficiency transparent solar films on windows, couple this with a few wind turbines and houses wouldnt need to have their electricity provided by companies, and oil could be reserved for industrial applications. you could also use the same solar innovations (that all currently exist now btw) to lower companies and industrial power consumption, all of this easing the transition over to renewables.

of course none of this will happen largely due to greed, companies dont want to lose out, so they dont want to support these technologies, and bugger the planet! politicians aint much better, i frequently think that the human race would work better if run by a single logical unbiased individual anyways i could go on but im starting to ramble somewhat xD