Oil running out?

Arnold Schwarzenegger warned about this ages ago when he said
"oil be back"
He actually said " Oil be Black" . he was undergoing elocution lessons @ the time .. Oil be black ...Sea be blue... Grass be green etc. He was trying to win the Oirish vote.
 
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it's called fusion. cheap, safe, reliable. Just 10 years away, as it has been for 40 years :LOL:

oil, yep it's good stuff. Life will of course change, but I doubt it will be quite as apocolyptic as Joe 90 suggests.

Food, yes, we'll have to start growing a lot more of our own
Power, well we're well placed as an island.
Plastics etc. well, stuff'll have to be made out of different materials.


Or......... Just sod it, lets have a world war, and whack a couple of billion off the planet.
 
Even with fertilizers the UK uses 2.5 times its own area to grow the food we need - which is why most of it is imported. When countries go back to life without fertilizers they'll need a much greater arable area and they won't be keen to export - so we go short. The fact is that we cannot support the world population without oil. When its gone - so have most of us.
 
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Well. Oil .Beef. Hooked.

The near canal. The far canal.
 
Even with fertilizers the UK uses 2.5 times its own area to grow the food we need
Source?

Joe, if this is the case, im just wondering why the supermarkets are keen to use locally grown crops, and where they get them all from!
 
I heard it on the radio. We even get our apples from China. We're an over crowded country with very little arable land.
 
No-one has ever found an answer to the fuel crisis approaching - and it doesn't look like they ever will. (You would need to break the laws of science to do so).
Errrmmm ... Not quite true as always.

In my lifetime we will see a move towards electric based travel with the electricity being readily and plentifully supplied first by fission and then by fusion reactors.

You read it here first. :LOL:

The loss of oil will be a temporary blip in the development of humankind ... Life will ALWAYS find a way despite what doom-mongers like Josef bang on about. :rolleyes:

MW
 
Fusion may never work. We are probably decades away even if it did.

Fusion is expensive and Uranium too is in short supply.

No-one has ever found a replacement for oil as oil is free energy.
 
Fusion may never work. We are probably decades away even if it did.
I'll bet the horse riders thought the new fangled internal combustion engine would never work and replace the horse either.

Fusion is expensive and Uranium too is in short supply.
At the moment yes but fission is already here and works.

No-one has ever found a replacement for oil as oil is free energy.
More accurately ...

No-one has ever found a replacement for oil as oil is free energy ... YET!

Doom ... Doom and more doom.

I'm with Thermo ... Despite you not having posted about this for quite a few months ... Get a life you sad old sod.

MW
 
Pretending that life as you know it isn't coming to an end doesn't mean that it isn't coming to an end. Fusion won't save us.
 
Pretending that life as you know it isn't coming to an end doesn't mean that it isn't coming to an end. Fusion won't save us.

oh, i dunno, it's kept us warm and toasty for 4 billion years.
 
We haven't been around anywhere near that long.
 
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