Who needs oil?

So spring boarding from my last post. Makes me wonder how free energy will affect things.

Right now we get power from solar, gas, coal, oil, and so on. This is in turn turned into power and by products. The process employs hundreds of thousands if not millions of people directly and indirectly.

Fusion pretty much runs off of elements easily harvested from the ocean and other places and is pretty much unlimited as far as humans are concerned. It should be as far as we are aware completely environmentally clean and friendly unlike every single one of our current power sources besides solar and maybe geothermal or theoretical heat differential stuff. This is of course ignoring the creation of the devices in which case all devices become environmentally unfriendly. So after the initial investment and upkeep costs fusion is effectively free energy compared to all other sources and perhaps most importantly to people one of the safest.

Another facet of this proposed reactor is it is very small compared to a traditional power source of its magnitude. Instead of having central power plants we will only need to replace the distribution sub stations that already exist in cities with minimal overhaul of the grid. Whereas current alternatives will require a massive grid overhaul and what some consider intrusive smart meters.

So now at this point we have put several industries out of business or drastically reduced their scope. But there’s still oil right? Batteries are not getting drastically better in the foreseeable future. Vehicles, planes, boats, and other devices have pretty long cycles too. Also many by products are created from oil such as plastics. Well maybe not, remember in the last post where the navel figured out how to turn sea water into jet fuel? It would be conceivable that within a decade that technology will be refined and made public. So conceivably in your garage you could have a device you dump a cup of water into and get gas out of and well there goes a fair amount of the oil industry.

So now we have to deal with untold millions now unemployed, micro fusion plants spread throughout the city, and water while important becoming a good deal more so.