Fossil fuels depletion

Triglyceride oils have declined since the 1980s and have been replaced by petroleum-derived products. However, as fossil fuels deplete the supply of petrochemicals, triglyceride-based oils are available as a renewable resource. 

Fossile fuel depletion No full depletion replacement by renewables... 

The major contributions to global warming, acidification, thermal pollution, and fossil fuel depletion are probably all directly related to the energy required. Because this is reduced by a factor of 5, it is assumed that these contributions reduce by the same factor, 5. 

Economy/profit Scarce resource depletion Drinking water resource depletion Fossil fuel depletion External (future) cost low Capital expenditure Operational cost Profitable over total lifecycle... 

The energy consumption has been reduced by 30% (reduction factor is 1.4). We have used this factor for global warming, acidification, and fossil fuel depletion. The thermal pollution from cooling water is reduced by a factor of 16 and the operational cost by a factor of 5 (39). 

Economy/profit Scarce resource depletion Drinking water resource depletion Fossil fuel depletion External (future) cost low Lower capital expenditure Lower operational cost Profitable over total lifecycle To be assessed for each case Not identified yet Yes improvement factor > 4 Yes Yes factor > 4 Yes factor > 4 Likely... 

If you detect the cynical position that each group will evaluate the merits of this concept based on their own self-interest, you are correct. This narrow view and the debates it will generate is the primary sources of resistance to implementation of this or any other plan for an effective solution to the related problems of global warming, pollution, fossil fuel depletion, and energy shortages. 

Most of the hydrogen that is manufactured for industry is made by reacting natural gas with high temperature steam, to separate the hydrogen from the carbon. But, manufacturing hydrogen from fossil fuel resources does not solve the fossil fuel depletion problem. 

Building on this MLP, a new strand of literature has focused on sustainability transitions, where the notion of transition is applied to fundamental environmental challenges in several sectors—including transportation and congestion (especially road traffic), air pollution, fossil fuel depletion, and CO2 emissions, as well as various environmental issues associated with the agricultural and food systems (Geels, 2010,2011). 

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