[SunnySide]

"How Long Will the Oil Age Last?"

Oh until about the time scientists have tinkered with dinosaur DNA and bring them back from extinction then they'll convert Dino-poop into synthetic fuel for vehicles to run on. I know, you laugh now but....strangers things have happened, like M.Moore winning an Oscar. (rolls eyes)


LOL

[SunkenCiv]

;') What you said is amusing. There is at least one group trying to revive the mammoth (much more recently extinct than dinos, but that effort will also probably fail), but using manure from animals to produce some sort of fuel isn't too efficient. One reason the idea of declining fuel supplies is plausible is that we use something analogous to manure when we consume hydrocarbon fuels. But, hydrocarbons aren't decomposed dinosaurs and extinct jungle growth. :')

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The Deep, Hot Biosphere by Thomas Gold foreword by Freeman Dyson 1992 paper

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[TexasCowboy]

It's interesting to me that as many threads as we have seen on FR about this subject, everyone still cannot think past, "How am I going to propel my car down the highway?"
It needs to be understood that IF we ever run out of oil, our world, as we know it, shuts down!

We are NOT going to run out of oil.
What we are going to run out of in America is oil that is easily obtained from areas which are environmentally approved for drilling.

[TexasTransplant]

poop don't cut the gas

volume says gold was/is right

engineers flame away...