and @Sticky,
If we’re going to argue extremes: the alternative is that we will return to the stone age because we don’t have any hydrocarbons left to burn.
reboot: Coal. There’s a massive amount of it, and by the time we run through it all we’ll either be more advanced than Futurama or nuclear infected, loping from place to place in order to find sweet, sweet unirradiated blood.
sticky: At 1998 production levels, we have about 200 years worth of coal reserves. If we start having to replace gas and oil energy, then we’ll run out in about 100 years.
I think you’re being a little optimistic that we’ll have a total replacement energy solution ready by then. And certainly not Futurama tech.
we could pay our energy bill with our household trash, if two or three of these (Joseph Longo’s Plasma Converter) were installed in every major city in america:
No. We’d regress to the stone age and burning hydrocarbons would be punished with instant death.
Looks more like a “yippie-ki-ay” aged Bruce Willis to me. I’d vote HIM for god any day of the week!
Al Gore is kind of awesome and retarded at the same time. Serially.
Vote ManBearPig for Satan.
I wouldn’t vote Gore for God. But he would make a good Emperor of the Moon.
and @Sticky,
If we’re going to argue extremes: the alternative is that we will return to the stone age because we don’t have any hydrocarbons left to burn.
reboot: Coal. There’s a massive amount of it, and by the time we run through it all we’ll either be more advanced than Futurama or nuclear infected, loping from place to place in order to find sweet, sweet unirradiated blood.
Hello everybody, I’m Al Gore, I invented the internet. Howdy, Howdy, Howdy!
sticky: At 1998 production levels, we have about 200 years worth of coal reserves. If we start having to replace gas and oil energy, then we’ll run out in about 100 years.
I think you’re being a little optimistic that we’ll have a total replacement energy solution ready by then. And certainly not Futurama tech.
@AlexDalek
Damn you beat me to it.
I’ll give a bag of precious Moon Sapphires to whomever comes up with the best alternative to fossil fuels….
Al Gore is an asshat.
Tho he is a level 50 Vice President….
we already have the answer to free, clean energy!
we could pay our energy bill with our household trash, if two or three of these (Joseph Longo’s Plasma Converter) were installed in every major city in america:
www.mobilemag.com/content/100/313/C11785/
www.sliceofscifi.com/2007/02/18/sci-fi-to-sci-fact-plasma-converter/
www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2007-03/prophet-garbage
www.twst.com/notes/articles/yat114.html
innovech.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/bye-bye-landfills-a-yes-from-joseph-longo/
This would get RID of trash. and offer clean, free energy in it’s place.
the thing is basically a woodchipper hooked up to a lightning bolt.
What about my Mr Fusion?
Yeah, Seriously, Mr. Fusion is where it’s at…