If you look at world population, world energy needs and world food needs each change in each variable(population, food and energy) effects each other variable. For example, as energy(oil) increases in price as it will likely do ongoing on a year to year basis, the amount of people on earth starving to death will increase in direct ratio to the price of oil(if the value of the dollar stays constant at one rate which it won't).
So here is a formula increased oil prices creates increased food prices which creates poor starving people. As the price of energy(primarily oil) goes up a higher number of poor people will die each year ongoing on into the foreseeable future.
If this weren't bad enough oil is slowly(or quickly) running out. If we were to suddenly run out of oil right now all over earth, the effect would be worse than about 50 nuclear warheads on the largest cities on earth. Everything would stop except for people with bicycles and horses and steam engines that still ran on wood or coal. There would be no cars(except plug-in electric cars), no electrical generation plants(unless they ran on coal or nuclear). Food, all goods would stop traveling by air, water or land except by steamship powered by coal or wood and steam trains powered by coal or wood.
If this happened suddenly likely 75% of the governments of earth would collapse from riots by starving and dying people within 1 to 3 months. The more disciplined and higher educated nations like Europe,Russia, China, Japan, the US and Canada and Australia and possibly India and a few others would survive because most of their people are educated enough to get what is happening and not destroy their governments or military needlessly.
I'm writing in this way as a caricature like a political cartoon. This could not actually happen all over earth at once because of a variety of different variables too countless to numerate here. I'm writing this to illustrate the real problem we all face right now and in the near future.
Those who have educated themselves enough to see the truth through research understand that as the demand for oil increases and supply decreases because there are no new large oil fields that have been discovered since the late 1960s and because only the large Saudi field hasn't peaked yet get it. Those who haven't educated themselves and believe the propaganda that oil companies and nations in their pocket speak in order to make money are in trouble because of being lied to.
Those who have educated themselves through research understand that there is only a 50-50 chance that there will be any oil at any price in 2020 and that there is only a 10% chance that there will be enough oil to put gas in your car at ANY price by 2050.
Understanding all this it is obvious that new energy sources MUST be created now before it turns into a complete disaster worldwide sometime between 2015 and 2050.
My idea in understanding all this is to start using as many different kinds of energy sources as possible so that when oil end(whenever that is) we have already replaced oil with one or more viable alternatives.
My suggestion that could work worldwide is creating hydrogen from water either fresh or ocean and probably both. This is, of course a temporary solution at best because as human beings (as well as the rest of life on earth) we need to drink water and we need water to grow our food and to moisten the air so we don't all dry up and blow away like tumbleweeds.
So, I see generating hydrogen for your vehicle to be a 20, 50 or 100 year solution at best to get the human race over the hump so to speak because if all hydrogen on earth was burnt by vehicles all humans would then be dead because there would be no water in oceans or land or air and any hydrogen left would be touching space at the edge of our atmosphere because it is the lightest element there is.
As a precognitive psychic liberating hydrogen and oxygen from water is only a prelude to running every household and vehicle on hydrogen fusion like the sun. So, each vehicle and house and building would have its own little miniature sun (smaller than an adults fist that would power their house or car. This would burn very little hydrogen as fusion is extremely efficient(look at the sun outside). The byproduct of hydrogen fusion is I believe helium which I believe is the second lightest element with a gaseous specific gravity of .138 --. Both hydrogen and helium would gravitate to the upper edges of our atmosphere if released.
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Interesting,
If and when hydrogen fusion is mainstream, as you illustrate, then there will never be a time where we will run out of hydrogen, as in water, at least not the oceans and seas around the world.
Yes, there is a risk of severe droughts of fresh water, and this is indeed a concern we should all pay attention to, but not to the degree that hydrogen fuel will deplete our supply of water, even if the whole world was powered by fusion.
The reasons are many, but in simple terms, the byproduct of hydrogen is water, and the helium is the energy which is created by fusion, which is the whole purpose of putting two or more molecules together, to create this release of energy and capture it, not that it will aimlessly released into the atmosphere to accumulate.
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