Resources of Oil? Running out?

[Ell Carino]

Do y'all seriously think that we are running low on our resources of oil? It seems like people have been sayin this forever, please post your thoughts/facts, whatever.

[RedAnarchist]

Its supposed to run out around 2040, although i dont know if this is true.

There are theories that when the oil runs out, countries like America will collapse, but those with a very valubale resource which is also in fairly short supply, fresh water, will become mega rich. These countries include America's neighbour Canada.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Firstly there is no proof that the loil is running out, only the speculations of oil company geologists. This means that we don't know how much oil there is in the ground.

The only time we'll know that the oil has run out will be when the oil wells are truly dry.

[Pawn Power]

Its supposed to run out around 2040, although i dont know if this is true.

I read similar estamites with the current increased rate of oil consumption.

[OleMarxco]

That is also why they invade IraQ: Out of desperacy. We should research fission technology to make nuclear plants safe and then go over to that ;)

[cubalibra]

The way oil consumption is going these days, oil will dry up well before 2040. The oil Bush wants to get to in Alaska so bad will only supply enough oil for America to last 100 days. What will happen to the environment after we have siphoned out all of this natural resource from the world. Our children will surely suffer.

[bushdog]

The supply i belive has peaked and the demand will just keep going up. there will not be some sudden dry spell, it has already started.
The US will have serious problems if they do not start transfering to renewable energy now. This is the only intellligent answer, with china and india modernizing at an incredible rate competion will be huge, but with the oil companies controlling the white house this will not happen.

[redstar2000]

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[Phalanx]

We should just use nuclear power. People are afraid of it, but if you can dispose of it correctly in mine shafts, there is nothing to be afraid of.

[bunk]

No, we should definetely turn towards renewable and non-nuclear methods of running our lifestyles

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

There are good reasons to choose nuclear - Low carbon emissions, Low environmental impact (They don't stripmine uranium) Low profile of nuclear facilities in comparison to wind/solar, safety and failsafes in modern reactors, universal application unlike geothermal, etc.

We would do well not to dismiss it.

[DaRk-OnE]

Hygrogen fuel cells are the way forward

Hydrogen fuel cells

In principle, a fuel cell operates like a battery. Unlike a battery, a fuel cell does not run down or require recharging. It will produce energy in the form of electricity and heat as long as fuel is supplied.

A fuel cell consists of two electrodes sandwiched around an electrolyte. Oxygen passes over one electrode and hydrogen over the other, generating electricity, water and heat.

A fuel cell produces electricity.

The fuel cell is similar to a battery. It produces electricity using chemicals. The chemicals are usually very simple, often just hydrogen and oxygen. In this case the hydrogen is the "fuel" that the fuel cell uses to make electricity.

Another very important difference is that fuel cells do not run down like batteries. As long as the fuel and oxygen is supplied to the cell it will keep producing electricty for ever.

The oxygen needed by a fuel cell is usually simply obtained from air.

Although the majority of fuel cells use hydrogen as the fuel, some fuel cells work off methane, and a few use liquid fuels such as methanol.

Fuel cells that use hydrogen can be thought of as devices that do the reverse of the well known experiment where passing an electric current through water splits it up into hydrogen and oxygen. In the fuel cell hydrogen and oxygen are joined together to produce water and electricty.

Fuel cells can be made in a huge range of sizes. They can be used to produce quite small amounts of electric power, for devices such as portable computers or radio transmitters, right up to very high powers for electric power stations.

[Che1990]

Obviously the only reason the USA invaded all the countries they have done since 1965 is to get their oil. We should turn our minds to renwable energy resources. Nuclear would be ok if it didn't leak and mutate animals.

[bunk]

I'm more worried about an accident. Our first priority should always be humans over animals.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Nuclear would be ok if it didn't leak and mutate animals.

Learn a little bit about about radiation: What is radiation? (http://www.geocities.com/freedomforfission/sci/radiation.html)

Myths about pollution caused by nuclear power (http://www.geocities.com/freedomforfission/saf/pollution.html)


Nuclear power causes mutation in fish.

Untrue. This is the kind of propaganda put forth in programmes like Captain Planet and parodied in The Simpsons, but the radiation discharged into the water is inconsequential, especially when compared to what is already there. All sorts of weird ideas get displayed in B movies and television, especially when writers fail to understand the true meaning of mutation. The myth of three eyed fish is just a myth.


I'm more worried about an accident.

Modern reactors are an order of magnitude safer than the russian RBMK reactors.

More on reactor safety. (http://www.geocities.com/freedomforfission/saf/reactor.html)