alt.energy.renewable

bill wrote:
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> Dan, I know you know all this, Hell, you taught me most of it. So,
> what's your survival plan?

Community, for all it is worth. We live very rural. Among Mormons with
guns. But then, I don't know how fast things will turn bad or even how
to define 'bad'. We keep enough food for a short time emergency,
whatever that is. We will be heating water and home with wood by next
winter. I can fix and fabricate. I am a ham with HF gear. I have an onan
for the community well. Hopefully it would only be for emergencies as
there are modern coal plants near us. There is more.

Unless the world goes to war, nothing sudden is going to happen. So the
above is long term thinking. Our kids are completely on board with the
implications of peak oil. My boy is a master fabricator. Food would be
our only concern if things got really bad. But again, I don't know what
'really bad' is or if it will really happen.

I don't think there is any running from this. Though I do have
acquaintances that have moved to New Zealand. Because oil production
will continue it could mean that the economy will adjust, (and you know
I say that with my tongue in cheek), first to go will likely be
frivolous air travel. If I recall correctly, just in the country we use
some 5-7 mb/d for air travel. In a decade we may be into some kind of
new deal where farmers grow food for humans to eat. Not fuel, not meat
products. Where we conserve our natural gas for fertilizer. It depends
on how the wake up call from peak oil is taken. That we have not taken
peak methane seriously is not a good sign.

So, in the end, my plan is to live my life a day at a time and cope with
it as best as possible. I do think it will get rough in the cities and
for all those urban sprawlers. Most of them only know how to buy stuff.
Not make and fix stuff. But maybe our food infrastructure will stay in
place and they will eventually teach their kids to live like my grand
parents did...

Best, Dan.

A Saudi saying, "My father rode a camel. I drive a car. My son flies a
jet-plane. His son will ride a camel."