Which new energy sources are likely to replace oil,gas and coal once the latter's reserves gets exhausted?

Question

Which new energy sources are likely to replace oil,gas and coal once the latter's reserves gets exhausted?

Answer 1

I bieleve soon all electrical power will be generated  from a donkey spinnig a wheel that turns a generator, ah Modern Marvels

Answer 2

Tidal energy. It is the only constant thing available compaired to all the others. Using a series of tidal pools, we could generate contant and regular power by regulating the capture and release of tidal water.

Answer 3

As oil becomes more expensive, tidal power, solar and wind power will become more attractive. Nuclear fusion has the most potential- despite the name, all it requires is superheating anything containing carbon to make massive amounts of energy. No waste, no hazards. The technology to contain it, however, is far from developed.

Unfortunately, what you see is what we've got to work with. Like anything, Use Makes Master, so the cost of alternatives will go down once they start being used.

Answer 4

nuclear... and when that gets depleted we should have cold fusion..

Answer 5

It better be nuclear or a lot of people are going to get hungry and cold.

Answer 6

Nobody knows, and that's the problem. Few people understand just how much energy is generated from the billions of barrels of oil that are pumped out of the ground nor how many things are made from oil. The very computers on which we write couldn't have been made without oil - not just for the energy to run them (and to power the labs and factories that designed and built them), but for the materials that were used to construct them. Almost everything in the modern world depends upon or is made from oil - from refrigerators to plastic bags and from trucks to satellites. Many experts and academics think we've reached (or are about to reach) Peak Oil. That's when reserves begin to run out, demand outstrips supply and prices begin to soar. We've left it far too late to start looking for alternatives.

As a footnote, I'm personally baffled that we don't discuss energy conservation far more than we do. We've only got a limited amount of time left to find a viable alternative to oil (and build a world-wide infrastructure to support it) yet we continue to pump oil and burn it for non-essential purposes as if there's no tomorrow.

Answer 7

Solar and wind are the only contenders.

We're still millions of years away before fossil crude resources are exhausted. So there is no economical motivation to begin defining and making it happen.

At the rate we're destroying everything else on this earth, the only contenders to survive will be SOLAR or WIND. Everything else will be pretty much destroyed by then.