CHAPTER 4 - HABITS OF LIFE IN THE FUTURE
ENERGY
Oil reserves will not last indefinitely on earth, science will have to
find a suitable replacement for energy. For some time, auto
companies and other are looking for the solution to the problem
and prepare their models for when this moment occurs.
In my view the solution is clear, you will have to resort to the
same source that generated the above forms of energy, i.e. the
sun, but in different forms such as wind, geothermal,
hydroelectric or produced panels photosensitive. Some say that
this energy is inefficiently saying that the sun took millennia to
accumulate the energy in oil and coal, but keep in mind that these
reserves represent only a fraction of the energy that arrived on the
planet and that was used in that time.
It does not seem acceptable for example nuclear energy for use on
earth because do not forget that this planet is an open ecosystem
and therefore very sensitive to the risk of a radioactive leak, this
energy is however the most appropriate in the interstellar travel,
since among the stars does not reach the sun's energy, therefore it
is the only one that can be used. From my point of view is
frivolous use of nuclear energy on earth only because it is cheaper
to produce, the consequences of accidents for humans should also
be taken into account and it is unacceptable that people in the next
reactors regions have to consider as a possible hypothesis having
to leave their homes for years by a radioactive leak.
Nor does it seem acceptable to use nuclear fusion energy on
Earth, because it is based on the destruction of the hydrogen
atoms of water for conversion into helium, I think you can solve
the problem without the word destroy is taken to include in the
process.
Solar energy may accumulate by batteries or be transformed into
liquid fuel using the water electrolysis process by which oxygen
and hydrogen atoms are removed once used as fuel only leave as
residue water vapor. In the desert areas of the earth could be
placed large installations of solar panels and wind windy areas in