Dear Evan
We are responsible for our children's future. Yet, not your good self, but your panel was complacent, apathetic and silent over our wealth made from hydrocarbon exploitation impacting on life support systems. This comes from greenhouse gases (GHG), possibly, turning earth into uninhabitable Venus. The dense GHG atmosphere on Venus makes it warmer than Mercury which is nearer to the Sun.
WIKIPEDIA:
"Venus may have had liquid surface water early in its history with a habitable environment,[27][28] before a runaway greenhouse effect evaporated any water and turned Venus into its present state.[29][30][31] There are atmospheric conditions at cloud layer altitudes that are the most similar ones to Earth in the Solar System and have been identified as possibly favourable for life on Venus ... "
My transcript:
EVAN: 28:00 mins - "How long do we think we will be using oil? ... It won't always be, potentially, part of the world economy."
LUKE: "The technology must catch up to allow us to exploit more difficult locations. We didn't exit the stone age because we ran out of stones ... the earth has plenty more hydrocarbons. The question is, what we want to use it for. The shale oil in the US is a great example of that. ... Now, we are making enormous amounts of production out of it. The deep water was a hostile environment that wasn't touched until the late 90s. We constantly can continue to backfill that wedge." Luke
EVAN: "How does the glide path out of oil operate or is there never a glide path?"
ED: International Energy Agency. With them peak oil is always imminent. Now they've increased their time span. ... There is limited technology to replace oil. You can reduce how much you need but you can't fully replace it. You need it for too many different products."
"To make the electric car you need hydrocarbon (I'm not going to use the word oil) derived products. The anode in a car battery, the most efficient anode for a lithium iron battery is made out of petroleum coke. We make it at Humberside and ship that coke out to the other side of the world to get it turned into a battery. We bring it back as a battery electric car. The best lubricants are hydrocarbon derived. Most cars are manufactured from rubber and plastics, even electric cars."
EVAN: "It would make a massive difference for us not to burn oil in heating our homes."
CONTRIBUTOR: "When you look at where carbon emissions are generated from, it is big heavy industry, in smelting steel and making cement. It is important to move the narrative away from oil into hydrocarbons. Today the oil refineries are running hydrocarbon feedstocks which are not fossil fueled. The world will become more complex in its sources of energy.
My rougher notes:
China is increasing more coal use and everything - staggering increases in renewables and fossil fuel. China is becoming a bigger consumer of hydrocarbons. We will not reach a terminal endpoint of energy production. We don't have enough renewable energy at the moment.
Hydrocarbons are a very important despatchable power source. We are a long way off from finding a solution to meet that balance (SELF: of rising consumption demands with the supply of finite fossil fuels??)
EVAN: "Reducing the burning of oil is not a ridiculous (thing to aim for) .
Thanks again, Evan for being a great broadcaster. Perhaps, be a little more challenging over Climate impacts and our foolish species discovering hydrocarbons and living infinitely on a finite planet and unnaturally on a natural planet - so, unlikely to outlive the dinosaurs in length of our occupation!
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