Images of Alberta's tar sands
This is for those who look to Canada's enormous (and enormously dirty) tar sands to solve peak oil.
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- byron smith
- Byron is a husband, and father of two small children. He keeps worms, bees and a compost pile, with a small garden to justify them. In his spare time, he is an ecological ethicist, author, activist, speaker, assistant minister and postgraduate student.
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2 comments:
Part of my job is to identify sites for solar-electricity generation sites. One of the big barriers (that people throw up) is that these solar sites take up so much land compared to gas/oil power generation stations. Images such as these show that oil and gas extraction also takes up a lot of land, and often ecologically sensitive land.
Yes - energy is going to cost us more once we stop (or reduce) our dependence on ancient sunlight and start living within our contemporary solar budget. But there will also be benefits, not least the fact that fossil fuels are becoming increasingly difficult to find and destructive to produce.
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