I was told we are running out
- Thread starter Teflon Don
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Nice! How many years we got now? I've heard 50 years. And from watching "Landman" we we'll run out of petroleum before we find its replacement. And no - Landman is not a liberal show - it's set in west TX and it's about the oil business.
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T. A. Gardner
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Plenty of time to go to nuclear and natural gas.
Who exactly told you that?
AFAIK, nobody important in the last 30 years has said we are on the verge of running out. Technological advances unforseen 50 years ago in drilling, secondary recovery, and deep water exploration have extended the life of the global oil economy by many decades.
So we're going to have nuclear-powered vehicles? Cool! "911, what's your emergency?" Answer - we're having two more meltdowns on I-80. Chernobl will be a fart compared to millions of tiny reactors running around in human hands
Hey, we won't be alive when we run out of petroleum in 50 years. I'm sad for my kids and future grandkids, man! If you think the info from the show "Landman" is correct, we're going to run out before we find a replacement and then the wars over oil and water? Tell me I'm wrong and why.
"Hey, Bing. How many years will our remaining crude oil supply last?
"Approximately 50 years
Estimates suggest that there are approximately 50 years of oil left on Earth, based on known reserves and current production levels. However, this figure can change over time due to new discoveries and advancements in extraction technology.
https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=e5f3...bGVmdC1hbmQtd2lsbC13ZS1ldmVyLXJ1bi1vdXQ&ntb=1
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T. A. Gardner
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Nah, run vehicles on anhydrous ammonia or liquid hydrogen. Either one makes sense as a portable fuel. Ammonia would probably work better and it's been used before successfully as early as the 1940's. You can make either in quantity from natural gas. Anhydrous ammonia has the added benefit of being one of the best and widely used commercial fertilizers in use today so there's plenty of knowledge base on handling it safely.So we're going to have nuclear-powered vehicles? Cool! "911, what's your emergency?" Answer - we're having two more meltdowns on I-80. Chernobl will be a fart compared to millions of tiny reactors running around in human hands
Hey, we won't be alive when we run out of petroleum in 50 years. I'm sad for my kids and future grandkids, man! If you think the info from the show "Landman" is correct, we're going to run out before we find a replacement and then the wars over oil and water? Tell me I'm wrong and why.
Nuclear would be for large, fixed, highly reliable, power plants to provide massive amounts of electrical power that solar and wind cannot even come close to matching. And, no Chernobyl isn't an example of anything beyond what happens when you have an unaccountable socialist / communist dictatorship and the corruption that goes with it doing something.
Nuclear accidents have happened all over the world for decades:
List of nuclear power accidents by country - Wikipedia
And the world is better off.
Have you ever given hydrogen a thought? And there are propane powered trucks on the road. Schwan's had them.So we're going to have nuclear-powered vehicles? Cool! "911, what's your emergency?" Answer - we're having two more meltdowns on I-80. Chernobl will be a fart compared to millions of tiny reactors running around in human hands
Hey, we won't be alive when we run out of petroleum in 50 years. I'm sad for my kids and future grandkids, man! If you think the info from the show "Landman" is correct, we're going to run out before we find a replacement and then the wars over oil and water? Tell me I'm wrong and why.
T. A. Gardner
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So? On the whole, nuclear is far safer than coal or oil fired plants. Did you know that the Three Mile Island accident killed no one, and caused no long-term health issues to anyone. Compare that to the BP Deepwater horizon oil rig disaster in the Caribbean. The clean up cost more than double TMI. 11 people died and dozens were seriously injured. Whole eco systems were trashed. Hundreds had health issues due to direct exposure to spilled oil.Nuclear accidents have happened all over the world for decades:
List of nuclear power accidents by country - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Yet, somehow TMI is supposedly a bigger threat than oil rigs are.
On that Wiki list you cite, you'll note the paucity of deaths in those accidents outside the inexcusable, corrupt, and thoroughly inept Chernobyl accident (why you don't want an unaccountable government doing this stuff). Most were relatively minor accidents that in any other industry wouldn't have garnered any attention.
T. A. Gardner
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Hydrogen has some issues that are difficult to fully resolve currently. That's why I suggested anhydrous ammonia. In many ways, it's safer than gasoline and works well in ICE vehicles designed to run on it. You can make it cheaply from methane (natural) gas particularly if you have cheap electricity and that means nuclear. Nuclear would also solve our energy consumption for data centers and other electronic storage.
If only the people running things wanted the best for us.
This is clearly NOT how it is.
T. A. Gardner
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Yes...and brainwash washed.That's because the vast majority of people are stupid.
That is certainly not an estimate that we are on the verge of running out.
So how many years you think we got left before we're all riding bikes?
No one can reliably say whether it's 70 years or 170 years.
It depends on oil demand, how oil recovery technology evolves and how motivated people are to switch from fossil fuels to clean energy.
Well, until I see evidence to the contrary, I'm going with the consensus of the 50-year prediction, hoping it's wrong that we won't find a replacement in time.