Alternative Energy

[hellcatjr]

Peak oil is a farce to steal your hard earned dollars through the oil cartels, haven't most people learned this already?

Alternative energies for the majority of things is... well not going to cut it.

What powers factories that make, lets say glass bottles? Their furnaces run on natural gas.

What about the train industry? They are fueled by coal.

What about all of the plastics you handle on a regular basis? That too is a petro product. Which, in its own right accounts for 99% of the products you use on a daily basis.

After Honshu / Fukushima incident, Nuclear power has proven, on a civilian level - it is far too disastrous and man has not fully harnessed the power to prevent criticality in an emergency. We still will not know the full impacts from this until several years and or generations down the road.

Wind power is expensive, requires massive amounts of land and for all intensive purposes becomes a nuisance for the community.

Solar power is a great item when done on a private level, but for use in a national power grid? I am skeptical. The panels must be replaced ever 3-5 years and the batteries, very similar to car batteries, too must be replaced frequently. This equates into an expensive alternative.

And lithium? Don't even get me started. On a small scale works wonders for small hand held devices... powering a car? The batters are bulky and heavy. The cars themselves are pricey which prices it out of the 'average mans' ability to acquire as well. And not just that, but lithium is heavily regulated and expensive to extract and refine.

None of these 'sources' of energy (outside of nuclear power) can touch what gas/oil/coal can do. It's just the plain simple truth... Best part of all is that it is made from organic material, or what were once living organisms.... as long as the earth stays alive, we'll have plenty of oil for generations to come. Peak oil is a scam, plain and simple.