The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand

This is yet another TOD post on a useless techno-fix. When is TOD going to face up to Peak Oil and examine contingency planning and how to save lives in the Peak Oil crisis that is coming soon? Banana Power and Poo Power are not going to save lives. How much oil, natural gas, and coal is going to be used in mining metals, developing, manufacturing, transporting, and maintaining these bio-technic fixes, and what food will NOT be grown in wasting good natural fertilizer (bananas and poo)? Everyone who works in the thousands of jobs in mining metals, developing, manufacturing, transporting, and maintaining these bio-technic fixes will be use gasoline to drive to work, and all of the factories will use electricity and many will use oil or natural gas for heating. And pipelines (which consume oil, natural gas, or oil in their manufacture and transportation) or diesel consuming trucks will be used to transport the gas made from bananas and poo.