{"id":3204,"date":"2005-04-06T16:23:44","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T00:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/04\/06\/dont-worry-about-peak-oil\/"},"modified":"2005-04-06T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T00:23:44","slug":"dont-worry-about-peak-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/06\/dont-worry-about-peak-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t worry about peak oil"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tFrom time to time, our hippie friends worry<\/a> that we’re on the brink of running out of oil and plunging into the Dark Ages. I don’t worry about this at all because technology will save our bacon as it has so many times in the past. Someday we’ll have the Hydrogen Economy, with clean-burning and cheap fuel. But before we get there, we’ll manufacture more crude oil to replace the stuff we’re pumping now. We’ll do this with a process known as thermal de-polymerization or TDP:<\/a><\/p>\n

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TDP does the same thing the earth does when it turns organic matter into oil, but a lot faster, using standard refinery components and techniques. The technology is not quite competitive – barrel for barrel or ton for ton – with existing energy sources, but if all the secondary costs and benefits (transportation, waste disposal, pollution and disease control, compatibility with existing energy infrastructure, vulnerability to terrorism, etc.) were factored in, it would look more competitive than other energy alternatives<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So don’t worry, be happy.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From time to time, our hippie friends worry that we’re on the brink of running out of oil and plunging into the Dark Ages. I don’t worry about this at all because technology will save our bacon as it has so many times in the past. Someday we’ll have the Hydrogen Economy, with clean-burning and … Continue reading “Don’t worry about peak oil”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-PG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}