Warning: Oil supplies are running out fast.

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Cleaver wrote: »

Invent a new fuel source you lazy b*stard.

ess0two wrote: »

In MSE fashion,worry like mad,start feverishly hoarding tinned and dried food.
Or kickback and enjoy life instead.

Hmm, tricky choice!

mbga9pgf

I am still very skeptical re peak oil. Have mates in the industry that each time they look, they find more of the stuff, or come up with a way to exploit extraction. Some of the cleverest people on the planet work for the likes of royal dutch shell, BP, exxon etc...

If we do get a replacement, for me it has to be bio-algal oil. Genetically engineered algae has lots of potential imo. Lots of land available to use it too - the likes of the UAE, saudi, africa show lots of potential. I wonder how long before we all have our own mini microalgal production plant built into our roof, similar to solar heating.

StevieJ

mbga9pgf wrote: »

I am still very skeptical re peak oil. Have mates in the industry that each time they look, they find more of the stuff, or come up with a way to exploit extraction. Some of the cleverest people on the planet work for the likes of royal dutch shell, BP, exxon etc...

If we do get a replacement, for me it has to be bio-algal oil. Genetically engineered algae has lots of potential imo. Lots of land available to use it too - the likes of the UAE, saudi, africa show lots of potential. I wonder how long before we all have our own mini microalgal production plant built into our roof, similar to solar heating.

Funny you should say that.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article5949992.ece

amcluesent

'Peak oil' is more about food than power. The only reason the 6,500,000,000 global population is now possible is massive use of synthetic fertilizer, made from hydrocarbons.

Take that away and the long-term sustainable global population is 2,000,000,000.

The really issue is not about leaving phone-chargers plugged in, it's who/how/when 4,500,000,000 people die.

julieq

Joeskeppi wrote: »

I keep reading about this but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do about it.

I nipped straight down Wilkos and bought all the two stroke oil I could find. BLACK GOLD innit.

Ta Ad, I owe you one post inevitable collapse of Western Civilisation.

Swipe

I'm glad I decided against oil heating now

mbga9pgf

Swipe wrote: »

I'm glad I decided against oil heating now

Only thing stopping me putting a low offer on a 5 bed house round the corner.

Cleaver

amcluesent wrote: »

The really issue is not about leaving phone-chargers plugged in, it's who/how/when 4,500,000,000 people die.

For lots of reasons this is one of the best lines I've ever read on this forum. It should be the tag line for the next Scorsese Hollywood End of Days epic type movie. I can see Will Smith saying it in a menacing way to a good looking bird in a vest top. Maybe Halle Berry or Megan Fox.

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amcluesent wrote: »

The really issue is not about leaving phone-chargers plugged in, it's who/how/when 4,500,000,000 people die.

Cleaver wrote: »

For lots of reasons this is one of the best lines I've ever read on this forum. It should be the tag line for the next Scorsese Hollywood End of Days epic type movie. I can see Will Smith saying it in a menacing way to a good looking bird in a vest top. Maybe Halle Berry or Megan Fox.

It may sound almost funny, hence your response Cleaver, but as things stand at this time amcluesent is absolutely correct. My prediction is human population will be down to 3 billion by the end of the century, the loss will be a mixture of resource wars, famine and pestilence.

julieq

4.5 billion people is the basis for a serious kickass compost heap. It's an ill wind, etc...