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Name the replacements for oil and next to them what percentage you believe they'll come to represent as energy of the future.
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Oil Replacements: What Will Power the Future? (Percentages)
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Sure sounds like homework to me. What do you think the answers might be, and why?
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Hawknc
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What will replace oil? If that ain't the $64 billion question, I don't know what is.
DavidUC
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Nuclear would be my guess since it's safer these days.
Hydrogen is the future and that's where it always will be.
Hydrogen is the future and that's where it always will be.
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Massive famine and tragedy will take the place of oil
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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.
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.
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After giving those percentages..do you still agree with your post in another thread?