Scary stuff indeed. Not enough is being done to find alternatives.
Do you have any links to what thay are doing?Loads and loads is been done, the oil companies aren't stupid, they are spending huge sums in research - they want to be supplying whatever happens next.
Do you have any links to what thay are doing?
One weirdly interesting idea is that it is possible to make oil from atmospheric CO2 and water - only drawback is that you basically need a nuclear power plant to do it on a useful scale. Carbon neutral and viable, if you can just get past the whole "nuclear energy" thing.
Loads and loads is been done, the oil companies aren't stupid, they are spending huge sums in research - they want to be supplying whatever happens next.
Is that a cold reactor?Then there is the Thorium based reactor technology
NO I was thinking of cold fusion.Its still nuclear if thats what you are wondering.
Loads and loads is been done, the oil companies aren't stupid, they are spending huge sums in research - they want to be supplying whatever happens next.
If gas in the US ever hits 5-10 dollars a gallon, people will walk, people will use public transport and bikes, they will do whatever they have to do to use whatever isn't current practical. For now.. Gas works fine.
Can anyone believe this?In addition, physicist Jonathan Huebner has concluded in The History of Science and Technology that the rate of innovation in the US peaked in 1873, and the current rate of innovation is about the same as it was in 1600. According to Huebner, by 2024 it will have slumped to the same level as it was in the Dark Ages.
True but will the farmer be able to cope with a horse drawn plough? As oil runs out the cost of everything will rise, people will have to work harder for a basic living.
Can anyone believe this?Mike.
Yes but at some point it is no longer worth the cost of extractoin and thay will stop pumping it. Witch may take longer if the prices keep going up.Its things like this that I just don't get. Oil will not just run out one day. Oil reserves in the ground are much more like saturated sponges than hollow tanks. They don't just suddenly hit an empty point and are 100% done with rather they gradually diminish their flow rates and that can take multiple decades for an actual well to go completely dormant.
Well, your loads aren't my loads. The world is still addicted to oil, and that addiction only grows. There is still no viable replacement. Oil companys don't care about supplying future energy; they only want to make as much money as they can from whatever oil is left to drill. Oil companys won't be the institutions who will supply the world's future energy needs.
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