Re: FN-FORUM: Oil - Electricty!

date posted 11th August 2006 14:40



Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>
>> [Gary Short] If you remove fossil fuels then there's only nuclear.
>> Nothing else meets the demand at the moment.
>
> Unless they start building new nuclear power stations very soon, even
> nuclear won't meet demand for much longer :)
>
>
If the Hubbert Peak theorists are right, if they don't start building
non-fossil-fuel power stations somewhere between now and five years ago
there won't be enough fossil-fuel derived energy to build the
alternative power sources we need to get by when oil starts to get
expensive.

-ben