H. Douglas Lightfoot's Nobody's Fuel -- energy supply is more important than climate change
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Actor: N/ADirector: N/A
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 145 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-19
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Nobody's Fuel
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DVD Review: Captivating look at the twin issues of climate change and peak oil
Summary: 5 Stars
Climate change and peak oil both threaten our future. Doomsday scenarios abound. Politics prevails. Climate change "deniers" clash with those warning about a coming apocalypse. Plenty of op/ed pieces can be read and sound bites can be heard. But few take the time and make the effort to flesh these issues out with science and substance.
Nobody's Fuel changes that. This video presents the practical view that a good mechanical engineer brings to the twin issues of energy and climate. Douglas Lightfoot, now retired, has spent years studying these issues. Nobody's Fuel builds a foundation that strongly supports his conclusion -- that energy supply is more important than climate change.
This video is no An Inconvenient Truth, in any sense. For one thing, it's not going to win any Academy Awards. The video is very watchable, but shot as a "talking heads" production with simple slides. Nothing special there.
For another thing, this video sets its foundation for that conclusion in the bedrock of fact. That's the biggest difference between Nobody's Fuel and An Inconvenient Truth. Where the former builds on fact, the latter builds on opinion.
Al Gore sees the problem as differing opinions, creating a lack of political will. He thinks the technology we need is already here -- energy from the wind, the sun, the heat from the earth. Coupled with social change like switching light bulbs, driving hybrid cars, replacing old refrigerators, and building more sidewalks and bike paths.
Nobody's Fuel does not ridicule that approach. But it does point out its weaknesses. That approach cannot do enough. It's like using a shovel to move a hundred-foot high hill of dirt. The shovel can help, certainly. But you need much heavier equipment to get the job done.
Douglas Lightfoot thinks that only nuclear fission can solve the twin problems of energy and climate change. These problems are not simple. And there is no simple solution. That is the strength of Nobody's Fuel -- it does not treat the problems or the solution as simple.
And that is the weakness of many other approaches. They present energy and climate change as simple problems. So simple that anyone who disagrees with them is either stupid or evil, or both. But that's how partisan politics works. The real world does not work that way.
Of course, the thinking on this issue will differ. If you believe with Al Gore that the problem is one of political will, don't watch Nobody's Fuel. You won't find anything about politics here. If you find facts more valuable than opinion, though, you will find facts in Nobody's Fuel.
This is an important film. Thanks to Douglas Lightfoot for making it.
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Nobody's Fuel emphasizes how important energy is to human welfare. With 85% of world energy currently supplied by fossil fuels, it is clear that a replacement must both mitigate carbon dioxide emissions and secure a stable and affordable fuel supply. This film explains that: * tar sands cannot cure "peak oil" * world energy consumption could triple by 2100 * history and technical limitations show renewable energy cannot ever provide more than 10% of world energy * energy efficiency and conservation marginally reduce carbon dioxide emissions * tree planting is not reliable for storing carbon dioxide permanently * the hydrogen economy is currently impractical Nobody's Fuel is not a doomsday scenario. This film recommends the widespread adoption of nuclear fission energy. Using modern fast breeder reactors, nuclear fuel is the only energy that is large enough to replace fossil fuels and mitigate atmospheric carbon dioxide.Bestsellers in DVD
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