If we get cheap gas then there's less incentive to actually look at sustainable energy and we'll pump a shit tonne of carbon up that we didn't technically need.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:14, 1 reply, 11 years ago)

yes.
you do understand that's how it works?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:16, Reply)

Devils advocate really.
Fossile fuels are "bad" and shouldn't be used.

That said natural gas is the best of a bad bunch in terms of processing and carbon emissions. If the world swithched over all coal power plants to natural gas, and/or natural gas starts widespread use in HGVs buses etc global carbon emmisions will go down a lot.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:28, Reply)

Or, alternatively people could stop obsessing about carbon dioxide emissions
as it's almost certainly one of the least of our concerns in terms of fossil fuel usage.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:30, Reply)

I'd admit the debate should be moved more to wastefulness and energy security*
but carbon emmisions is still important.

*by that I mean spending massive amounts of money every year for something that you can generally make yourself with a large enough initial investment rather than OMG fundin terror
(PsychoChomp, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:35, Reply)

energy is entirely the least of our problems.
There is pretty much not a single product out there in our lives that doesn't use oil in its manufacture, and to which there are no serious viable alternatives at a global scale. Biodiesel-based avaiation fuels are fuck all use if we have to go back to planes made out of wood.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:38, Reply)

Graphene will save us!

(PsychoChomp, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:38, Reply)

Like fuck it will.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:39, Reply)

But flexible screeennnsss!!!!
Although, I read this and was like "wooahhh" arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1112/1112.3488.pdf
(PsychoChomp, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:43, Reply)