Days left till the end of oil 15430
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For those who have not yet seen this. http://www.worldometers.info/[^] So do you think our future will look like soylent green? We all ride bicycles to generate electricity and subsist on tasty crackers or Mad Max? Live beyond the thunder dome. jj
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For those who have not yet seen this. http://www.worldometers.info/[^] So do you think our future will look like soylent green? We all ride bicycles to generate electricity and subsist on tasty crackers or Mad Max? Live beyond the thunder dome. jj
I thought books were published more often than that. Sad.
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For those who have not yet seen this. http://www.worldometers.info/[^] So do you think our future will look like soylent green? We all ride bicycles to generate electricity and subsist on tasty crackers or Mad Max? Live beyond the thunder dome. jj
I wonder why that was donwvoted? Odd.
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For those who have not yet seen this. http://www.worldometers.info/[^] So do you think our future will look like soylent green? We all ride bicycles to generate electricity and subsist on tasty crackers or Mad Max? Live beyond the thunder dome. jj
I think the question should be: Are there really people who are so naive that they believe we know how much oil there is? Do you include natural gas? What about gas hydrates? How about kerogen?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I think the question should be: Are there really people who are so naive that they believe we know how much oil there is? Do you include natural gas? What about gas hydrates? How about kerogen?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
Gas (including hydrates) is not oil. The history of other extractive industries (in particular coal) shows that while you can't tell exactly how much there is, you can make a pretty good guess once the initial 'discoveries everywhere' phase is done and production begins to tail off. Talking about the 'end of oil' is simplistic and populist, but one can reasonably talk about the end of cheap, readily available oil, and if you put some numbers on that (e.g. 10% of current production) you can make time estimates with reasonable accuracy. That's not counting the possibility of oil synthesis technology, of course. At that point it's not a pure extractive industry any more and the same idea doesn't apply.
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I think the question should be: Are there really people who are so naive that they believe we know how much oil there is? Do you include natural gas? What about gas hydrates? How about kerogen?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I think the question should be: Are there really people who are so naive that they believe we know how much oil there is? Do you include natural gas? What about gas hydrates? How about kerogen?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
Wot about the workers!
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For those who have not yet seen this. http://www.worldometers.info/[^] So do you think our future will look like soylent green? We all ride bicycles to generate electricity and subsist on tasty crackers or Mad Max? Live beyond the thunder dome. jj
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ha ha no I do not believe oil will end in 15430...I was musing about what everyones opinion of the future entailed...especially if we lose the ability to create plastics...it seems so integral to our lives
I thought I had read that some plastics were now made from chemicals now. Don't take that for gospel, I'm by no means a material scientist. I just thought I had read that somewhere. Learn something everyday, I guess. :-D