Can alternative energy effectively replace fossil fuels?

[Spiderman]

Can it?

 

[David1967]

Eventually it will have to as fossil fuel is finite. However due to the powers that be making such huge profits from fossil fuel, regardless of the pollution from it, I don't see it happening in the foreseeable future.

 

[David1967]

And Pope, I think you are setting a new record for new threads. Good job.

 

[Revoltingest]

Can it?

To an increasing extent over time.

How's that for a daring proclamation!
Anyway, we face big federal & local taxation barriers to green energy.
Lobby your politicians to remove tax barriers....
- Not allowing businesses to expense green energy improvements
- Raising property taxes for solar panels

 

[Vinayaka]

To an increasing extent over time.

How's that for a daring proclamation!
Anyway, we face big federal & local taxation barriers to green energy.
Lobby your politicians to remove tax barriers....
- Not allowing businesses to expense green energy improvements
- Raising property taxes for solar panels

How much of this do you think is due to oil sector lobbying?

 

[Kemosloby]

No, and it will never smell like gasoline. I need my gasoline.

 

[Revoltingest]

How much of this do you think is due to oil sector lobbying?

Very little.
In the case of property taxation, it's about cities (who aren't lobbied by oil businesses) wringing every
possible dollar from us. The fed also wants to gouge us as much as possible, so if I replace thousands
of dollars of fluorescent bulbs with LED ones, they want me to depreciate them over several decades.

 

[Revoltingest]

No, and it will never smell like gasoline. I need my gasoline.

I had no idea you were into huffing.

 

[Kirran]

I don't see why not.

 

[Vinayaka]

Very little.
In the case of property taxation, it's about cities (who aren't lobbied by oil businesses) wringing every
possible dollar from us. The fed also wants to gouge us as much as possible, so if I replace thousands
of dollars of fluorescent bulbs with LED ones, they want me to depreciate them over several decades.

Thanks. I don't think we Canuckistanians face the same local hassles, but maybe we do in some cities. This topic came up a lot on Kauai where I was recently, and there was some law passed to stop homeowners with solar panels from selling to the grid. There the new energy is about fast growing trees, and burning them quite cleanly, replacing the diesel generators that have provided power for a very long time.

 

[Kirran]

Thanks. I don't think we Canuckistanians face the same local hassles, but maybe we do in some cities. This topic came up a lot on Kauai where I was recently, and there was some law passed to stop homeowners with solar panels from selling to the grid. There the new energy is about fast growing trees, and burning them quite cleanly, replacing the diesel generators that have provided power for a very long time.

SV processes a lot of the cooking oil that gets offered into biodiesel.

 

[metis]

100% is unlikely, but the more compliance with using fossil fuels the better. It need not be looked as as a zero-sum game.

 

[David1967]

I had no idea you were into huffing.

Darn it. You beat me to it.

 

[Revoltingest]

Thanks. I don't think we Canuckistanians face the same local hassles, but maybe we do in some cities. This topic came up a lot on Kauai where I was recently, and there was some law passed to stop homeowners with solar panels from selling to the grid. There the new energy is about fast growing trees, and burning them quite cleanly, replacing the diesel generators that have provided power for a very long time.

Selling electricity to the power companies is a tricky issue.
That's something I wouldn't require them to buy it....for now.

 

[Valjean]

Energy production and distribution from centralized distribution centers has been a profitable industry for a century or more. These energy monopolies aren't going to give up without a fight. They see the writing on the wall, and they're determined to wring as much profit as they can out of the system before the collapse. They're attempting to put as many legislative stumbling blocks as possible in the path of the inevitable.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Utilizing current technologies, at current costs, at current energy usage levels for large, developed countries, no.

 

[Thief]

Can it?

if we learn to do without all the consumption we now enjoy
ok

but likely not

not until the fossil fuels are gone
or we choke on the pollution
which ever comes first

 

[Thief]

I don't see why not.

View attachment 16085

nice chart
too bad the USA isn't on it

 

[Revoltingest]

Energy production and distribution from centralized distribution centers has been a profitable industry for a century or more. These energy monopolies aren't going to give up without a fight. They see the writing on the wall, and they're determined to wring as much profit as they can out of the system before the collapse. They're attempting to put as many legislative stumbling blocks as possible in the path of the inevitable.

I also favor more decentralized energy production & distribution for military reasons.

 

[Thief]

breeder reactors