IEA report reminds us peak oil idea has gone up in flames

[arenean]

From The Guardian:

The truly global implications of the 2012 report lie in the warning that we must leave most of our fossil fuels in the ground.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/nov/12/iea-report-peak-oil?intcmp=239

[David__77]

1. Time to go nuclear, whether there's too much oil or too little.

We need much more and better nuclear power, and soon.

[MadHound]

2. No need to go nuclear,

When green renewables are fully capable of shouldering the load now.

Besides, nuclear still can't solve those two big problems it has always faced, how to eliminate human error and what to do about radioactive waste. Until those two problems are solved, nuclear will be a dangerous dead end.

[FSogol]

7. Seriously? "green renewables are fully capable of shouldering the load now"

So, we could just shut down every reactor in this country this morning without a blip in service? Really?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. just as soon as you figure out where to put the toxic leftovers.

I suggest your basement.

[snooper2]

4. We launch the waste into space on a direct path to the sun

Easy Peasy!

And we take 100 billion of the defense budget for more fusion research...



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Nuclear fusion is one of the most promising options for generating large amounts of carbon-free energy in the future.

Fusion is the process that heats the Sun and all other stars, where atomic nuclei collide together and release energy (in the form of neutrons, see diagram on the right). Fusion scientists and engineers are developing the technology to use this process in tomorrow's power stations.

To get energy from fusion, gas from a combination of types of hydrogen – deuterium and tritium – is heated to very high temperatures (100 million degrees Celsius). One way to achieve these conditions is a method called ‘magnetic confinement' – controlling the hot gas (known as a plasma) with strong magnets. The most promising device for this is the ‘tokamak', a Russian word for a ring-shaped magnetic chamber.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. and if just one launch fails like the Challenger did?

research is great, but we have to deal with the reality of Right Now.

[RepublicansRZombies]

6. So overdramatic. We can store it in volcanos!