Comments on: FastForward Radio https://blog.speculist.com/fastforward_radio/fastforward-rad-42.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Phil Bowermaster https://blog.speculist.com/fastforward_radio/fastforward-rad-42.html#comment-9603 Phil Bowermaster Wed, 07 May 2008 07:46:24 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1558#comment-9603 Thanks, M. Fusion is one way the energy problem can be resolved. Others would include (off the top of my head):

Nuclear Fission
Solar
Solar Thermal
Ethanol — from switchgrass, cornstalks, etc.
Ethanol — from waste
Methanol — from coal
Synthfuel — from coal
Synthfuel — from shale
Synthfuel — from tar sands
Biodiesel — from waste
Biodiesel — from algae

Fusion and solar (which of course is just another variation on fusion) are the long-term answers. The others may help us get there.

This is why I don’t lose sleep over Peak Oil. If there had never been any oil, we would have industrialized using coal and today would probably be using serious 10th-generation nuclear fission or possibly even fusion. There’s plenty of energy to be tapped. The end of oil is not the end of civilization.

]]> By: M. Simon https://blog.speculist.com/fastforward_radio/fastforward-rad-42.html#comment-9602 M. Simon Tue, 06 May 2008 13:06:20 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1558#comment-9602 You might find this of interest:

Fusion Report 06 May 008

]]> By: Harvey https://blog.speculist.com/fastforward_radio/fastforward-rad-42.html#comment-9601 Harvey Mon, 05 May 2008 12:16:46 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1558#comment-9601 I thought of a series of shows for FastForward radio, I think would sell lots of tickets. A direct confrontation “The Speculist vs. Doomsday”…one show at a time, to take on the doomsday of the week and dismantle it, as the people stand by and cheer…and the dark cloud disapates.

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