Something that Environmentalists don\u2019t want to admit is that fossil fuel has produced the modern world.\u00a0 Without coal, oil and gas as fuels (and much, much else) we would still be living like the peasants in medieval Europe did in the 1300\u2019s.\u00a0 Coal was the fuel that made steam power possible which produced locomotives and steam ships.\u00a0 Oil became the default fuel for electrical generation, automobiles, modern trains and also the basis for the myriad petrochemical products that make possible everything from pharmaceuticals and clothing to building materials and every other thing that\u2019s made of what we call polymers.\u00a0 Natural gas is the fuel for most of the modern electrical generation installations built in the United States over the last forty years or more.\u00a0 And it heats a large percentage of homes and businesses. \u00a0\u00a0Without these fuels we would literally be poor, cold, hungry and sitting in the dark.<\/p>\n
And the Left knows that.\u00a0 Now Jeff Bezos and the rest of the plutocrats are fine with this.\u00a0 They know that they would still be able to reap the benefits of energy even if they denied it to the rest of us.\u00a0 Bezos could have his own private solar collecting system and wind turbines with battery back-ups that could allow him to enjoy all of the modern comforts that would be denied to us.\u00a0 His jet and helicopter and cars would mysteriously be able to use fuel while we would only be able to purchase a battery car that could only go a short distance and would be hard pressed to recharge by the next morning when we had to commute back to work.\u00a0 Impoverishing and disenfranchising us is actually the goal of this whole exercise.\u00a0 A new feudalism would replace a free country and the aristocracy and their minions would lord it over the rest of us deplorables.<\/p>\n
Of course, we may not be happy about letting them do this.\u00a0 Right now, $3.50\/gallon gas and the inflation that causes in our economy is making Dementia Joe awfully unpopular.\u00a0 When it reaches $5.00\/gallon he may get tarred and feathered. \u00a0And that would be a wonderful thing.\u00a0 Impoverishing the American people should be considered treason.\u00a0 So hopefully the environmental insanity being pushed should create a strong reaction to the progressive agenda.\u00a0 That would be a good outcome.<\/p>\n
But there is something that needs to be faced.\u00a0 There is a finite amount of hydrocarbon fuels in the Earth.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying we\u2019re close to the end.\u00a0 I\u2019m only saying there is an end.\u00a0 And now is the time to be doing the basic research to find the next energy source for the modern world.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019ll be nuclear fission plants, safer versions of the ones currently in place, maybe it\u2019ll be better applications of solar power, perhaps solar collectors outside the atmosphere beaming microwave energy down to collection stations on earth.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019ll be geothermal hot spots.<\/p>\n
An inexhaustible energy supply solves one of our problems.\u00a0 With it we can produce electricity to run our factories and if it is truly inexhaustible, we can even heat our homes with it.\u00a0 But whatever it turns out to be we will still need a fuel for our cars and planes.<\/p>\n
Airplanes will never be able to run on batteries.\u00a0 The power density is too low.\u00a0 And as we\u2019ve seen battery powered cars are very limited in their range.\u00a0 Unless there are large gains to be made in battery technology which is unlikely, the best solution is a synthetic fuel.<\/p>\n
Maybe it will be hydrogen.\u00a0 Hydrogen is highly energetic and when it is burned with oxygen its\u00a0 combustion product is water.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t get cleaner than that.\u00a0 But hydrogen is a small molecule gas and it leaks easily and it blows up mightily.\u00a0 So extremely fail-safe equipment will be a necessity if it becomes the fuel, we run our automobiles and planes on.\u00a0 But hydrogen is not the only option.\u00a0 With unlimited electrical energy engineers could very easily produce synthetic methane (natural gas).\u00a0 Or with a little more work they could make longer hydrocarbons.\u00a0 Octane is the optimal component of gasoline.\u00a0 That could be the main product we produce as our global fuel.\u00a0 Of course, we would be using water and carbon dioxide as our starting materials so at that point we would have a carbon neutral effect on the environment which unfortunately would make the environmentalists happy.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t feel so good about that but I guess it will have to be.<\/p>\n
So, the exhaustion of supplies of natural hydrocarbon fuels is something we should be anticipating.\u00a0 But instead of giving up the modern lifestyle we\u2019ve gained from these energy treasures we need to use our ingenuity to invent replacements that enhance our ability to control our environment and improve our way of life.\u00a0 And that\u2019s my version of following the science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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