{"id":58290,"date":"2021-06-17T10:28:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58290"},"modified":"2021-06-17T10:28:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:28:03","slug":"government-plans-to-reduce-dependency-on-fossil-fuels-wont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58290","title":{"rendered":"Government plans to reduce dependency on fossil fuels won\u2019t work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Government plans to reduce dependency on fossil fuels won\u2019t work<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Preface<\/strong>. Yikes!\u00a0 These government plans won\u2019t help the energy crisis at all!\u00a0 The only items I like are getting Yucca mountain ready to take nuclear waste \u2013 it\u2019s my top priority of \u201cwhat to do\u201d. We need to sequester nuclear wastes while there is still energy so we don\u2019t expose future generations for hundreds of thousands of years to radioactive materials.\u00a0 It\u2019s also a good idea to sequester CO2 by using it to do enhanced oil recovery.<\/p>\n

But (A) electrify transportation?\u00a0 I explain why that won\u2019t work in\u00a0\u201cWhen Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0<\/em>Nor will (B) enhancing the nation\u2019s electric system, because this book also explains why the electric grid can\u2019t stay up after fossils are gone.\u00a0 (C) Enhancing the biofuels system is the worst idea of all, covered at great length in of\u00a0\u201cLife After Fossil Fuels: A Reality Check of Alternative Energy\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

I thi<\/em>nk that a few items in section\u00a0\u201d<\/em>II. Increasing energy access: expanding domestic supply<\/em>\u201d are inevitable when the next oil crisis begins. But they won\u2019t won\u2019t work. Oil shale, methane hydrates, and coal to liquids are far from commercial and a negative energy return, as explained in my books.<\/p>\n

My best explanation of why methane hydrates won\u2019t be possible is in energyskeptic post \u201cWhy we aren\u2019t mining methane hydrates now \u2013 or perhaps ever<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0 The IPCC includes ridiculous amounts of methane hydrates to justify their worst climate scenarios. They desperately need geologists and energy experts on their committees to explain reserves versus resources, commercially proven, and energy return on invested before they build their 2021-2022 models.<\/p>\n

Nor will the arctic and Alaskan oil \/ coal \/ natural gas be exploited because icebergs will knock out offshore drills and permafrost will buckle roads and topple drills, bridges, and buildings (see my arctic oil posts\u00a0here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Government plans to reduce dependency on fossil fuels won\u2019t work Preface. Yikes!\u00a0 These government plans won\u2019t help the energy crisis at all!\u00a0 The only items I like are getting Yucca mountain ready to take nuclear waste \u2013 it\u2019s my top priority of \u201cwhat to do\u201d. We need to sequester nuclear wastes while there is still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11836,11837,328,379],"class_list":["post-58290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-alice-friedemann","tag-energyskeptic-com","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58291,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58290\/revisions\/58291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}