Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Was it the "oil century"
"We all know oil and gas depletion will start in 2030 or 2035, ... "
... (R)enewable energy sources like wind or solar power are unlikely to provide more than 15 or 20 percent of the world's energy needs.
There is enough coal in the earth to keep the world running for centuries, but at an unacceptable environmental cost because of air pollution. As the world's oil and gas fields become exhausted, the world is expect to increase its reliance on nuclear energy.
Still, few scientists expect a fusion reactor to generate commercially viable electricity before the middle of the century, if by then.
For the non-nuclear-savyy like YT, please note that "fusion" is a very different thing to "fission".
The subject of the NYT article from which the above has been extracted is the plan to now build the world's first nuclear fusion reactor in France.
