A real energy future....

[Zachstar]

As I have grown tired of discussing fantasies of 300 years of oil from an Saudi sized reserve. I have decided to start a topic to discuss REAL LIFE solutions to the current energy crisis outside of the crap from the oil industry.

What is a fantasy you ask? A fantasy is thinking that remaining Oil reserves on the planet called earth are enough to keep current or reduced prices online for over 100 years when factoring in costs to develop and sustain extraction.

A fantasy is thinking hydrogen alone will save us. That it can be "mined" or "extracted" easily.

A fantasy is thinking some perpetual motion machine will come online and save us.

A fantasy is thinking China will stop growing anytime soon.

A bigger fantasy is thinking they will "go green" and save us.

A fantasy is thinking coal is clean in any way shape or form. And yes thinking that we can click our heels and make coal use vanish in 10-20 years is also a fantasy (Sorry Al Gore)

etc...

So with that in mind what is "Real" Real is research and development. Real is accepting that current solar and wind technology is just "not good enough" Real is the understanding that we need a better storage solution.

So with that in mind let us discuss! What is the big breakthrough you are currently looking forward to? What changes do you think need to happen? What amount of involvement is .gov needed in this?