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Emerging technologies for humanity by mike adamsBog'liq EmergingTechnologies Laboratoriya ishi- 2, Презентация2, Avt tuz.ishchi taqvim 80 soatlik, ja8cvMoWs5WKZ9FrKRjZSiD1OPxH7VkeNh9Xygin, Samarkand, ARTICLE (ARTIKL), Ravshanov Sh, Preventive Maintenace Check List, ДашбордControl of resources: this is perhaps one of the most damning aspects of our global dependence
on oil. Because oil is so vital to the economies of nations, its control escalates to “national security”
priority. Accordingly, the 20th century (and now, the beginning of the 21st century) witnessed
unprecedented death and destruction in the form of military conquest primarily motivated
by control of resources. World War II was largely fought over oil resources. (Japan’s primary
motivation for attacking Pearl Harbor, for example, was the U.S. oil blockade.) There is little doubt
that today’s military actions in the Middle East are largely motivated by oil interests, regardless of
their advertised justifications. (If Iraq were nothing but sand, dirt and huts, do you honestly think
anybody would bother fighting over it?) A shift away from the oil economy to a clean, renewable
and widely available energy source would ease tensions that have historically surrounded the
control of limited resources.
Limited supply: fossil fuels are, indeed, running out. There is a finite supply of oil to be found on
the planet, and once that oil is consumed, it simply cannot be recreated without waiting hundreds
of thousands of years for nature to create more. Estimates of the number of years remaining for
the fossil fuel supply range from 20 to 200 years. Extraction technologies continue to improve
each year, so there is little agreement on exactly how much oil we have left as a civilization. What
is not in contention, however, is that the supply is finite.
Beyond the problems with the oil economy, there are additional reasons why a hydrogen economy
offers unprecedented benefits to the quality of life of people everywhere:
The Ten Most Important Emerging Technologies for Humanity
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