Transport
Terrestial Air Sea The Future Peak Oil
Although all forms of transport in Australia only generate 80 (43.5 passenger vehicles) megatonnes of CO2 equivalent per year, it is still the third highest contributer to global warming and one which could lend itself to major reductions.
"Contrary to a recent forecast that the world's fleet of fossil-fuel-burning
motor vehicles will triple over the next 50 years, the fleet will have to be
reduced to no more than about 10% of the present number."
Melbourne Neuroscientist Dr John Reid Ockham's Razor, 10th Dec,
2006
Getting about on the land.
Of course the ubiquitous motor car stands out and the almost ubiquitous 6 cylinder 4WD stands out even more on the Australian roads, but in this section we can look at cars, trucks, trains, public transport, car sharing, walking and cycling and look at the respective oportunities for reducing emissions.
Getting about in the air.
Don't get me started
on air travel. You can make up your own minds from reading the marerial in
the links I have posted. My choice of link my be, will be biased I suppose
so alternative points of view are invited from you the visitor to give balance
to these pages.
Going by sea.
In my youth, the big European adventure
was at the tipping point of whether you went by sea or travelled by aeroplane.
Only the ideosyncratic or those with a pathological fear of flying choose sea
travel these days. A well known Australian actor, Leon McKern frequently travelled
between the UK and Australia on a container ship which took passengers.
A link to modern day travelling by cargo ship is included in the sidebar.
What is the future of fuels or "No Fuel like and Old Fuel"
This was a title of a talk given by a Dr. Geoffry Chia, a cardiologist who has
a special interest in fuel research and usage. It was an image he used in his
talk of a fabulous technology laden liner approaching an iceberg which inspired
me with the theme for this web site.
It is a fabulous discussion of the current fuel crisis and what are our likely
options. The link to this talk is in the sidebar.
The End of Oil?
The midpoint of global exploitable reserves of hydrocarbons is termed the "peak".
From then on supply starts to diminish quickly at a time when demand might
still be rising quickly. All sorts of social consequences will result when
that point is reached. A growing number of people are convinced that the
tipping point for all is sooner than governments are prepared for. There
was a good Catalyst program on this during the year and I have given the
link to the Peak Oil web site on the sidebar.