Indeed; apart from the (rare) presence of Christophe de Margerie at Total (who has cleared up some things), it's already been seen.
And blablabla ... and blablala ... that it will be bad that it is too late that we are fucked up that it is the fault of India and China ... etc etc etc ...
I have not seen everything but I believe that no solution with the energy potential COMPARABLE TO THAT OF OIL has been discussed in detail of which here is a micro listing not exhaustive here
- Thermal Energy Seas and synthesis of a synthetic liquid fuel with research currently underway in Reunion (it's in France as a reminder !!)
- Solar concentration for electricity or hydrogen: Desertec project
- Biofuel from micro algae
- Wave exploitation, Wavegen project
Etc., etc...
In short, I'm ULTRA tired of hearing pessimistic defeatism all the time: if it was really the end of oil (let's say in 30 years there are no more), know that oil tankers would largely prepare their survival by MASSIVELY investing (among others) in the solutions mentioned above!
In addition, and what many are really struggling to integrate: the "system", with high inertia, will self-balance as and when.
The less there will be, the more expensive it will be and the more economically interesting the alternatives will be and therefore the more investments (both in R&D and in installation) will be in these alternatives. Currently it is only in the infancy ...
For example, in 20 or 30 years I do not think that a new house can be built without at least 10 or 20 m² of solar thermal ...
In this sense, oil tankers currently have no interest in maintaining expensive oil for the long term because they know that they will lose market share!
In short there is ONLY the price that will change mentalities globally and the behavior of mismanagement towards fossils. To say that there will be more and that it will be the end of the world as we know it and to predict the cataclysm is pure and simple idiocy!
Here I do in the Allègre..sse there!
After the prime-time Seen from the sky on the end of oil, Frédéric continues the debate with Yann Artus Bertrand, Yves Cochet and the boss of Total Christophe de Margerie.
At the end of the program, Frédéric receives the lyric singer Cécilia Bartoli.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Photographer and director
Photographer and director, Yann Arthus-Bertrand also offers the documentary series "Seen from the sky" broadcast on France 3, of which we have just seen a new episode "The end of petroleum", devoted to the exhaustion of black gold reserves, its consequences and alternative solutions. He also produced "Home", a huge success - 8 million viewers - last June, of which he is currently preparing the second installment. Finally, he will present, on December 9, at the Copenhagen summit, the continuity of the “6 billion others” project initiated in 2003: “6 billion others. Witnesses to the climate ”, that is to say 600 new testimonies filmed in 17 countries to raise awareness of the human repercussions of climate change. Climate change, which he also explains in a new book "2 degrees too many: Understanding the stakes in Copenhagen better" (released on November 12, Editions de la Martinière).
Christophe de Margerie
Managing Director of Total
Christophe de Margerie started 35 years ago at Compagnie Française des Pétroles (CFP), which became Total-CFP in 1985 and Total in 1991. One of the largest oil companies in the world, of which he has been, since February 2007, managing director, after having been chief financial officer and having headed Total Middle East, a region of which he is one of the finest experts and where the main oil reserves are concentrated. While he mentioned oil reserves for another 100 years or more a few months ago, today he seems to have changed his mind - notably in the documentary "Vu du ciel" by Yann Arthus-Bertrand - saying that the 'we're going to run out of them very quickly. His company already seems to be preparing for it, by turning to other energies such as nuclear ...
Yves Cochet
Green MP
Politician and environmental activist for 30 years, Yves Cochet was notably Minister of Regional Planning and the Environment in the government of Lionel Jospin (July 2001-May 2002). Since June 2002, he has been a Green Deputy for the 11th district of Paris (14th arrondissement). In addition, he was one of the first to raise the alarm over the depletion of oil reserves with “Petroleum apocalypse”, an essay published in 2005. He also published “L'antimanuel d'Ecologie” (editions Bréal) in March 2009.
John Brimont
Physicist
Physicist and essayist, Jean Bricmont currently teaches theoretical physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He notably wrote with the American Alan Sokal, "Impostures intellectuelles" in 1997. Political essayist, he co-edited with Julie Franck in January 2007 a Cahier de L'Herne dedicated to the linguist Noam Chomsky. He has just published "Humanitarian imperialism: Human rights, right to interfere, right of the fittest? "(Aden, 2009) and" Reason against Power, Le Pari de Pascal "(L'Herne, 2009), a book co-written with Noam Chomsky, in which he talks about his anarchist convictions.
Anne Lefevre-Balleydier
Scientific journalist
Anne Lefevre-Balleydier is a scientific journalist. She writes in La Recherche, La Banque des savoirs, Sciences et Avenir ... She has notably been deputy chief editor of the magazines Science et vie Hors Série and Les Cahiers de Sciences et vie. She is also a biologist and oceanologist. Anne Lefevre-Balleydier has published, among other things, a Little Atlas of the Seas and Oceans. In "After Oil, When the wells are dry" (Larousse, 2006), she militates for "another way of living", in a world free of petroleum.
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Some interesting comments on the page above including this one:
I am a market trader. I can tell you that the price of oil has nothing to do with its real value. Oil serves as a cover against the fall of the dollar. When trading in dollars, nobody wants to keep it as a currency, investors prefer to buy with these dollars, oil or any other commodity / commodity. In addition, the number of deposits discovered in deep offshore is constantly increasing. Add to this an enormous economic crisis which slowed down demand .... Oil should be worth 40dol / bal ... But so much the better, as it will no longer have dependence on the outside.
ps: recently another Tonight or Never on the subject to see.