RE: Black Gold Blues

Robert Jolly opines:

What we need is a rational energy policy. Whether we like it or not, the world supply of fossil fuels has peaked and our global civilization has, in my estimation, about a thirty to forty year period in which the transition to renewable sources of energy can be effectively undertaken by using the present level of technology which is based upon oil. If we fail to make this shift in a reasonable and timely fashion, I can envision a situation in which economic and technological collapse will render such a change nearly impossible and create a very bleak future. Without petrochemical fertilizers, our planet cannot sustain the present level of human population, much less the 12 billion people expected to be living in the mid-century. This needs to begin now as nuclear fission is not going to be the answer (prohibitive cost, untenable levels of plutonium and other toxic and potentially armament producing materials, and lack of fresh water to supply the levels needed worldwide). A combination of nuclear fusion, solar, geothermal and wind energy will be necessary, as well as harnessing the potential energy to be provided by plants (Tesla wrote about this source of electricity before Edison had him imprisoned for insanity in order to complete his theft of Tesla's ideas and inventions).