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Science & Engineering of Sustainable Petroleum (Hardcover)
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Science & Engineering of Sustainable Petroleum (Hardcover)
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We are facing a crisis that threatens the sustainability of the
entire planet. Civilisation has been defined up to now by how
efficiently we handle our energy needs; nevertheless, today we are
bombarded by proposals for alternative technologies that are more
energy-intensive than whatever preceded. "Engineering" has come to
mean more processing, greater profit margin, and yet more implosive
outcome. Covering up this failure to develop sustainable
alternatives highlight only short-term gain. The focus on
short-term and tangibles obscures the true vision of technology
users. Perpetual justifications of progressively less efficient
technologies has become a rampant source of the profoundest
disinformation. No sector has fallen bigger victim to this
disinformation campaign than the petroleum industry. Today, the
most efficient naturally processed fuel (fossil fuel) production is
synonymous with unsustainability and compatibility with nature and
the environment. Accompanying this slogan is the environmentalists'
drumbeat about "renewable" energy. Everywhere people are sold on
the idea that even genetically altered vegetable oil is sustainable
and efficient whereas natural crude oil exploitation is not. With
this slogan, it has become fashionable to replace the agricultural
industry with "renewable" energy production and try to replace
fossil fuel energy with nuclear energy. The industry that
single-handedly served mankind a globalisation panacea on a silver
platter has now become a villain worthy of being replaced with the
makers of nuclear bombs and DDT. Similarly, carbon dioxide -- the
essence of life and energy, through photosynthesis -- has become
the other villain that must be "sequestered" and possibly replaced
by hydrogen and even radioactive nuclear spent fuel.
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