Idiotic Environmental Predictions

[Volunteer]

How do you die from fossil fuel, inhaling carbon monoxide or something?

Well, yes!

Combusting the additives found in gasoline—benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene—produces cancer-causing ultra-fine particles and aromatic hydrocarbons. Globally, fossil fuel pollution is responsible for one in five deaths. In the United States, 350,000 premature deaths in 2018 were attributed to fossil fuel-related pollution, with the highest number of deaths per capita in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. The annual cost of the health impacts of fossil fuel-generated electricity in the United States is estimated to be up to $886.5 billion.

Fact Sheet | Climate, Environmental, and Health Impacts of Fossil Fuels (2021) | White Papers | EESI

This fact sheet provides a survey of some of the climate, environmental, and health costs associated with fossil fuels.

www.eesi.org

 

[CLAX1911]

Well, yes!

Don't run engines in an enclosed space

Combusting the additives found in gasoline—benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene—produces cancer-causing ultra-fine particles and aromatic hydrocarbons. Globally, fossil fuel pollution is responsible for one in five deaths. In the United States, 350,000 premature deaths in 2018 were attributed to fossil fuel-related pollution, with the highest number of deaths per capita in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. The annual cost of the health impacts of fossil fuel-generated electricity in the United States is estimated to be up to $886.5 billion.

So what go back to the Stone age?

Fact Sheet | Climate, Environmental, and Health Impacts of Fossil Fuels (2021) | White Papers | EESI

This fact sheet provides a survey of some of the climate, environmental, and health costs associated with fossil fuels.

www.eesi.org

 

[Volunteer]

So what go back to the Stone age?

Of course not. Just transition to non-polluting transportation.

 

[CLAX1911]

Of course not. Just transition to non-polluting transportation.

So sail boats and horse-drawn carts? I posit even those pollute.

You cannot transport things without polluting.

 

[Lord of Planar]

Of course not. Just transition to non-polluting transportation.

Modern cars burn gasoline exceptionally clean. Diesel is still a problem for the atmosphere. Cargo ships are probably the worse polluters on the planet. Solution here would be not to allow any in US ports that do not meet very high, strict standards. Same with Mexican trucks coming across the border with goods.

The USA itself, with the exception of diesel IC engines has become a very clean nation for how much fossil fuels it uses.

 

[Lord of Planar]

So sail boats and horse-drawn carts? I posit even those pollute.

You cannot transport things without polluting.

The modern day ecowarrior would complain about the methane from horseshit. They would want to do away with horses like they want to do away with cattle.

 

[Sandokan]

(15) A World without Fossil Fuels | 5-Minute Videos - YouTube

PragerU

754,940 views Dec 18, 2023

Environmentalists advocate for a world without fossil fuels. But what would the real-life consequences be? Would it even be a world you would want to live in?

Great 5 minutes video that demonstrated that practically everything depends on fossil fuels. Technological and societal advancements would not have been possible without fossil fuels. Without fossil fuels the survival of humanity will be compromised.

 

[Steve Case]

Great 5 minutes video that demonstrated that practically everything depends on fossil fuels. Technological and societal advancements would not have been possible without fossil fuels. Without fossil fuels the survival of humanity will be compromised.

There are lots of essays about what life without petro products would be like.
This one from WattsUpWithThat is one of the better ones.

 

[Volunteer]

Technological and societal advancements would not have been possible without fossil fuels. Without fossil fuels the survival of humanity will be compromised.

No need for you guys to worry, petro fuels are here to stay. Our snails pace transition to cleaner and cheaper fuels is just that - a snail's pace.

 

[Steve Case]

No need for you guys to worry, petro fuels are here to stay. Our snails pace transition to cleaner and cheaper fuels is just that - a snail's pace.

Here to stay? Coal and petroleum are finite, they will become ever more scarce and expensive in the future.
Dunno about CH4, some of it may be abiotic. Somewhere I read that there's enough fissionable material to
last until the Sun expires.

Google AI says: Advanced reactor designs (breeder reactors): If breeder reactors are employed, which can utilize
the more abundant Uranium-238, the supply of uranium could potentially last for a much longer period, possibly
billions of years.

 

[Lord of Planar]

Here to stay? Coal and petroleum are finite, they will become ever more scarce and expensive in the future.
Dunno about CH4, some of it may be abiotic. Somewhere I read that there's enough fissionable material to
last until the Sun expires.

Google AI says: Advanced reactor designs (breeder reactors): If breeder reactors are employed, which can utilize
the more abundant Uranium-238, the supply of uranium could potentially last for a much longer period, possibly
billions of years.

ASTRID looked like promising technology, but the French abandoned it. Maybe it isn't, but I suspect it was abandoned because of the alternative push.

 

[Steve Case]

ASTRID looked like promising technology, but the French abandoned it. Maybe it isn't, but I suspect it was abandoned because of the alternative push.

ASTRID (Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration)

Did you think your followers would automatically know what that undefined acronym stood for?

Well anyway, I had to look it up.

 

[Lord of Planar]

ASTRID (Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration)

Did you think your followers would automatically know what that undefined acronym stood for?

Well anyway, I had to look it up.

I figured if anyone cared they would look it up.

 

[Steve Case]

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