Posted by The Famous Grouse on March 08, 2019 at 07:41:01 from (97.116.26.124):
In Reply to: midwest home heating?? posted by Al Baker(pumpman) on March 08, 2019 at 06:05:35:
People always assume that we will face the future with only the technologies and mindsets we have today. They also assume that the future will arrive suddenly one day and we'll all be caught unprepared.
Fossil fuels aren't going anywhere soon but their use is ALREADY being slowly reduced I just drove through 2 massive new wind farms that weren't there 5 years ago. I heard Iowa will have 20% of their power coming from wind by sometime next year.
Slowly we will evolve away from fossil fuels. The future will probably involve use of a variety of sources of energy for heating depending on what's most plentiful at that moment. If wind/solar generated electricity is plentiful that day, you'll consume that. At night the system will switch to geothermal or nuclear-generated power.
Also, gains in efficiency have just scratched the surface. 10 years ago if I told you that you could get 100 watts of light from 13 watts of energy consumption, you'd have said I was nuts.
And... We will use technologies that are currently unknown to us. This is always hard to envision, but can you imagine if you could get into a time machine and go back to 1800 and try to explain to people that all those horses and wagons will be obsolete in just over 100 years? They'd say nothing will ever replace the horse.
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