Yup...We're Running Out Of Oil

[Jano]

SHIT HAPPENS !!!!!

[Seshmeister]

The US has 3% of the oil reserves and currently uses 25% of the worlds output each year.

The big irony is that the most likely and logical thing that will happen in the next 20 years is that we will move to nuclear power generating all the electricity which is then used for cars.

Nuclear is fast becoming the logical answer as the least bad option.

[GAR]

ENERGIZE THE CYCLOTRON~!!

[BenJammin]

Here's another good link. I follow this stuff all the time, and from my layman point of view, this looks like the real answer to our energy problems. Produce all the hydrogen you want from the sun, then use it to power everything else. Hydrogen powered fuel cells for your car AND home.

The article is legit. It basically details the process of producing cheap hydrogen from water by using titanium oxide electrodes [old technology with recent engineering breakthroughs which increase efficiency to an acceptable level].

Then you can turn the hydrogen back into water by running it through those new type fuel cells for electricity (no combustion, no CO2, just heat and water as byproducts). Then use the same water to run thru the first process!

This IS the holy grail of energy production.

http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2004/08/27/6900038_SolarHydrogen/

Fuel cell information here:

http://www.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/fuelcells/basics.html