Richard Heinberg: Our Renewable Future
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Richard Heinberg is Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost educators on peak oil, energy policy and community resilience.
In this Jamaica Plain Forum, Heinberg explores the opportunities and challenges of a transition to a fossil fuel free future.
Several energy analysts and environmental organizations have formulated plans for transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy. Heinberg, along with David Fridley, staff scientist of the energy analysis program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has gathered and assessed those plans. In his talk, Heinberg discusses the future of clean energy and how the characteristics of ~100 percent renewable energy would shape our lives and economy.
Thank you Richard for spreading this important message to humanity:) . With much respect from Europe.
I cannot express enough how screwed we are. If we had started building stuff with the intention of lasting forever and conserving our finite resources we would have stabilized and lasted longer. We literally wasted what we had and nothing will ever replace oil. If there was one thing it would have been done by now. Net energy is something most of the "renewable forms of energy" doesn't take in count. Nuclear energy is actually a net energy loser once you try to send the electricity over long distances. I have spoke on peak oil for years and could write about it till the cows come home. We are just screwed and I think the world we built with oil with eventually cost of our lives.
truth,,,,we are very screwed
exactly, human stupidety always gets its way.
We are not screwed because screws take fossil fuel to make. We are fkd.
Thank you, excellent presentation and questions!
This talk was just about making things more efficient. There was no replacement for oil
The only theoretical replacement for oil is fusion or dark energy that requires less rare materials then a nuclear plant or output is so insane compared to even nuclear that we build only a few of them. So we need plants that generate 100s of GW vs the 1 nuclear do and megawatts or less everything else does. Fusion is in theory same output as nuclear so may be useless as well. So complete collapse or planed collapse is probably all that is possible.
@@Jeremy-WC I agree. That's where the talk fell short. There is no future. We can delay it a nit through the tings he talks about but renewables cannot power an industrial economy.
Richard is whom taught me, yet I have to mention, its not only about fuels. It's machinery. As best as I can explain it quickly. This is not the oil age, it's the age of machinery. The planet runs at a certain speed. Our speed is not compatible. Anything not compatible with nature......well?
The greatest danger to ecology is not fossil fuels but what we do with them or any energy source, such as farming which is the most destructive human activity. Mining and manufacturing is the second most destructive.
I realize one cannot make a complete change in a day or two, but should be continously thinking of what can be changed right away. Every little step in the right direction is progress. It starts when you shop for food. There is little need to buy packaged things, especially things packaged in small amounts like teabags, for example. You think of the amount of energy that goes into those few crumbles of tea in a bag. Don´t buy it. Don´t buy processed foods. Of course one will have to start preparing foods for themselves again, start cooking instead of throwing things in a microwave. Eat as many raw foods as possible. And buy organic foods, of course. Join or start a gardening community. Use as little electric appliances as possible. Stop mowing your lawn and discover how exiting your garden can look if you enhance natural growth. Discover how many weeds are in fact delicious to eat. Use every organic "waste" you can lay your hands on to improve the soil in your care.
Actually, if you do it right, you don´t even need a fridge. I turned mine of years ago and didn´t miss it for a day. But I thought about it for a long time before I dared :-))
When it gets colder like now dress in the right materials to keep your body warm and postpone turning on the heat as long as possible. If you follo this train of thought you will come up with more ideas yourselves, I am sure!
Let's live like Native Americans in harmony with nature.
por favor , lo pueden traducir al español?
After the first set of wind and solar systems need replacement then what? It takes 4 tons of coal to make one solar panel and this doesn’t account for the petroleum needed for mining and transport as well as the energy needed to produce all the other components of a solar panel beside the cells .Simplicity is inevitable. The modern societies need to look to India’s pedal and hand powered machines such as their textile machinery and other low tech devices because there isn’t going to be enough electricity to power our needs since there isn’t going to be enough energy to replace even a small number of megawatt turbines. If there is enough to make 10% of current power we’d be lucky this is unlikely. We have to come to accept that energy will not be available for modern civilisation.
There is nothing that will fix or solve the issue at this point. Takes 30 years to switch energy infrastructures and that's assuming we has something to switch to. No matter what we sealed our fates with the world we built our world on. These guys aren't wrong they may be a little early as it's honestly hard to predict the world's current oil supply and what we have and what we can still get. Arctic oil is a complete joke it will never ever happen. It's all going to come down within the next 30 years I would say in 5-15 years we will start seeing major problems as population grows and demand grows. Scary to think what will happen I predict the end of humanity will soon follow once we don't have a certain amount of resources.
@@RetroRogue. Yeah, I see a big change in 10 years that people aren’t ready for
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Zeitgeist Movement Moving Forward!
There is a very simple solution to our predicament. Don't make new humans. I got snipped. Problem solved. No '(grand)children' of mine will be in trouble. ;-) Read 'Better never to have been' by David Benatar. Don't breed and stop worrying. I did.
True, but that will take many decades, goes against human instincts, and the people already here are eating up the world. Scientists say the population might need to drop to 2 billion at most.
Sven poorer countries rely on their children to provide for them in old age, plus in poor country education including reproduction control often much more difficult. Compare that to advanced wealthy countries where populations can be level or dropping, ignoring immigration. That's one reason why Japan is looking to robotics for health care. The answer is to end poverty and increase social care (richer people in safer society tend to have far less children). This requires driving up education levels and give women far more control. The wealthy west needs to engage long term with the poorer countries and help them, something that in today's political climate has becoming increasingly difficult alas.
Sven FYI ;) www.populationmatters.org/attenborough-talk/
you can eternally debate and mentally masturbate. People alive during the next generation can shake their fists, shoot their guns, slash with their knives and rape with their dicks, no kids of mine will be there to suffer from it. People who pay the suffering forward are tragic and stupid...but keep breeding, you know 'to take care of the elders'. An everlasting cycle? Nope Nature will at one point say stop (asteroid, volcano, snowball earth, sun expanding, killer virus, shifting climate?). And then there will be nobody around anymore to remember the nonsense that happened on this silly little world. It will all have been for nothing.
Sven ..ok..but Its a biological reality that most people want to have kids, many because they need to. Safer happier people breed far less kids; sort poor countries out and that will drastically reduce poulation growth with individuals consenting and all nations benefiting. Actually this also stands a good chance of happening as IT infrastructure improves for developing nations Wikipedia is one if the most popular sites for them
But why do we need to worry about this, we have Mars now.
Not everyone will go to Mars. It's only for highly selected few. Most of us will be left here on Earth. Hence, this talk.
@@nadiajr1500 Irony dear
We have so much oil we are exporting it we have 2 trillion Barrels in schale Canada in the tar oil sands has enough oil and that one place to fuel the entire Earth for 300 years there is a company called bright light
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Heinberg failed at Thermodynamics.
This is a joke and impossible.