by highfly-addict » 13/12/08, 15:10
When I write "don't want it", it's not exactly synthetic oil I'm talking about.
In fact, I do not want a world totally enslaved to the cause of Man.
Currently and only "thanks" to such "practical" fossil fuels, our civilization, which I would describe as "superenergetic", is establishing itself as a world model for humanity.
But, for reasons not only energy, this model is not sustainable (overcrowding, soil destruction, water pollution, drastic reduction in biodiversity, etc., etc.).
What if we manage to synthesize oil? For my part I think that oil is like a drug for our current society and that getting it a substitute will only prolong the addiction .... and that thus, even with expensive oil, we will happily continue to " develop "(read pullulate is possible).
Granted, the oil thus obtained is not fossil, so it does not modify the atmospheric balance by its combustion. Very well. What frightens me is the quantity of natural "resources" (space, nutrients in particular) that would have to be mobilized to replace oil.
Besides, I would like to know a little about the orders of magnitude involved but I admit I am lazy to do the necessary research and calculations! Let's say that my intuition tells me that the surfaces concerned would be immense and the removal from the "natural" environment remaining for the enormous nutrient supply.
This is what "I don't want". However, this vision does not imply a return to the Middle Ages at all! Rather, a search for simplicity.
For the heating, good there, obviously I am in transition in my life at the moment and therefore for two years and for this winter again it is awful nuclear (in rent) ...
That said, I am currently working on a wood heating cut / split / brought back to elbow oil in a self-built hut (I don't mean house) very well insulated.
There, I do what I can .... to simply continue to envisage a future.
edit: like I'm going to change my meadow donkeys!
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