The people making record profits off oil want it to stay that way. We have better, cleaner sources of energy but that would make some people loose power.
Yeah man i know, they should invest all that dosh in nuclear fusion, that would provide enough power for our power demands easily! But as you said..... They are greedy people.
we need to stop using oil and use a different fuel/energy source but like teh poster above me said "higher ups" make too much money off of it to let us go over to a cleaner energy source. it pisses me off i mean there already rich what do they want more for?
Or instead of polluting our planet and the space around our planet with nuclear waste, we could be using a hemp based bio-fuel.
hmm, you have nuclear fusion mixed up with conventional nuclear power stations, Nuclear fusion is what the sun does, fuses helium and hydrogen atoms together to make massive amounts of energy, we can do it at the moment but can only make it last around 30 seconds.... If you fuse enough atoms it becomes self sustainable. Hemp based fuels can only go so far, we still need land and water and nutes to feed it, and people/machines to cultivate it. Nuclear fusion would need ONE power station for the whole worlds energy needs.
The method they are using, hydrolic fracturing, is untested and has been linked to pollution of groundwater supplies. They use the same process to extract natural gas in Pennsylvania. I saw a documentary of a family who uses the groundwater in the same area where hydrolic fracturing occurs. The woman turning on her water, held a lighter up to it, and literally lit it on FIRE.
We will never learn and unfortunatly its are childern and our childrens children that will pay the price.