Oil Replacements: What Will Power the Future? (Percentages)

[Jay GW]

Name the replacements for oil and next to them what percentage you believe they'll come to represent as energy of the future.

 

[chroot]

Sure sounds like homework to me. What do you think the answers might be, and why?

- Warren

 

[Hawknc]

What will replace oil? If that ain't the $64 billion question, I don't know what is.

 

[DavidUC]

Nuclear would be my guess since it's safer these days.
Hydrogen is the future and that's where it always will be.

 

[0rthodontist]

Massive famine and tragedy will take the place of oil

 

[dimensionless]

It doesn't really sound like a homework problem to me, but what do I know?

60 years from now, in the US:

Electricity:
coal 59%
nuclear 35%
wind 4%
solar 1%

Motor Vehicle Power:
electricity/hydrogen 99%
natural gas 1%
ethanol 0%

Heating:
electricity 10%
natural gas 90%In another thread I said that no one can really predict the future.

 

[buddyholly9999]

After giving those percentages..do you still agree with your post in another thread?