According to some we reached peak oil this year, and with consumption continuing to rise we should expect it to run out in around 50 years. Further discoveries will not change things by more than a few years, and such discoveries are increasingly more difficult to extract. With the end of diesel fuel, mining (also increasingly difficult)…
According to some we reached peak oil this year, and with consumption continuing to rise we should expect it to run out in around 50 years. Further discoveries will not change things by more than a few years, and such discoveries are increasingly more difficult to extract. With the end of diesel fuel, mining (also increasingly difficult) will stop. Electrical or hydrogen power is not capable of substituting for diesel in crucial areas such as mining. Re-cycling of metals etc can never be 100% and this will also cease. This means the end of industrial civilisation, no more cars, computers, electricity etc. We won't know what sort of civilisation(s) will succeed ours, what level of sophistication they will retain, hopefully a more enlightened Athens or Gandhara, and maybe some kind of fascism in North America - they are most of the way there already, but . . .
According to some we reached peak oil this year, and with consumption continuing to rise we should expect it to run out in around 50 years. Further discoveries will not change things by more than a few years, and such discoveries are increasingly more difficult to extract. With the end of diesel fuel, mining (also increasingly difficult) will stop. Electrical or hydrogen power is not capable of substituting for diesel in crucial areas such as mining. Re-cycling of metals etc can never be 100% and this will also cease. This means the end of industrial civilisation, no more cars, computers, electricity etc. We won't know what sort of civilisation(s) will succeed ours, what level of sophistication they will retain, hopefully a more enlightened Athens or Gandhara, and maybe some kind of fascism in North America - they are most of the way there already, but . . .