vtsnowedin wrote:While there may not be a substitute for jet fuel there are alternatives to just about everything else...
theluckycountry wrote:...lets give you the benefit of the doubt. What are these alternatives to just about everything else you said above?
vtsnowedin wrote:Hard to know what the alternative will be before it is discovered or invented.
Ok, I see. So there are none, Yet.
Well the thing is, I have to make decisions about my future in the 'Now' world, not some future world. I have seen too many futurist plans fail to come to fruition in my lifetime and don't want to waste my money and mental energies pursuing dead ends. The consequences of peak oil, which was a science based schema, with practical examples like the US conventional oil peak back in the 1970's, these consequences are just what we are seeing today. The wars in the Middle East, the food and energy shortages, the rampant inflation, the collapse of the global wealth engine, all these are coming to pass as was projected.
Yes I live a good life and want for nothing, but much of that has to do with the decisions I made reading forums like this back in the day. The experts that laid out the map for peakoil, the geologist Colin Campbell et al, never wasted time discussing solar panels and windmills etc as a solution to the dilemma. No doubt because it was obvious to them (as it is to me today) that, after construction costs, they could not offset but a tiny fraction of the energy we exploit from oil coal and gas. The whole idea that we can live in the future as abundantly as we did in the 20th century is diametrically apposed to the scientific projections of peakoil.
But people in general like to think positively, like to have hope, and that is why the waters are muddied with all these "Well if we just do this! We will all be eating peaches and cream in the future" But I don't see any of that, I see hundreds of average people in Austin Texas eating out of dumpster bins because of a blackout. Green Bay-area retirement home residents being evicted because their Medicaid no longer covers the cost of living there.
More than 250 people fought over discarded food in dumpsters after a power outage last week at an H-E-B grocery store in Texas, authorities said.
“We had over 250 people fighting in the dumpsters because someone posted ‘Free Food!’” Travis County Constable Precinct 4 George Morales III posted on Facebook. “This is not free food.” https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/us/texas ... index.htmlWe don't eat out of dumpsters in Australia, not yet, but the day will come.