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TSK TSK TSK...How soon you all forget..about a month ago I posted some statistics about oil and alternative energy sources.

The conclusion is that solar is not viable as it would take so many millions of square miles of solar panels to provide a vertible fraction of the power needed in the USA. That it would be impossible to get enough coverage.

Nuclear is the only viable energy source that can even provide anything close to the power consumed in the USA.

The World consumes something like 86 million barrels of oil a day.

Quiet frankly without oil as the strategic fuel, modern life as we know it would cease to exist. THe shear economy of scale that we enjoy would be over in the world. How would your life be different without electricity is the question that has to be asked.

It is nice to think about exploring alternative energy sources as a pancea for our problems, but to be polite it is not viable.

I am not trying to belittle anyone. The facts alone will bear out the reality of the situation. The world for better or worse to sustain it's economy cannot do without oil.