The future without oil, minerals etc

jsmoke

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jsmoke

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Some reports say that there is only 6 years or known oil reserves left in UK waters and 9 years left in Norwegian waters. Links if needed.

Also various minerals are becoming scarce, such as Copper, Lead, Uranium, and various others. So finite resources yet ever increasing demand and ever increasing population. This topic has been going round for many years I know, but with Governments constant policy of continual economic growth we must obviously reach a tipping point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
 
The future is bright, resources aren't scarce, there is literlaly millions of tons of all those metals.

The issues are the reserch that says we will run out, only take existing economical extraction methods into account, non look at anything deeper than 1km. If you look deeper say down to 3km like a few studies have, we have enough resources for the distant future.

Would be nice. If people put figures on stuff. Cos this bs gets put out every year and anyone who does put figures on are always proved wrong. But they go, I calculated it wrong but it will happen. No it is up extremely unlikely to happen. Especially with natural minerals. There is so much in the earth, we haven't even touched a single % and we get better at extracting it every year. Oil is about the only one they will be right on, but even that ever single prediction has been wrong (well the ones which dates have already be passed).

Not only can we dig deeper, in the next 50or so years space is going to massively drop in price.
 
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Highly technologically advanced Aliens will visit from another dimension and show us how to create pure energy from idiocy, so there's absolutely nothing to worry about.
 
As Alfred E. Neuman said:

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If they runout of copper.. they simply need to rip up the crappy copper interweb cables and replace them with fiber and replace all the water pipes with plastic. and Boom 1000000Million tons of copper lol
 
jsmoke said:
Some reports say that there is only 6 years or known oil reserves left in UK waters and 9 years left in Norwegian waters. Links if needed.]
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Considering that the North Sea is getting £10bn investment from BP alone over the next 5 years, I think it's safe to say that there is more than 6 years of production left! Added to the shale resources that will come on-line, the UK is actually pretty well equipped for hydrocarbon resources in the next few decades. If not, we'll just invade Ireland as the Irish Sea resources are now economically and technically feasible to extract.
 
jsmoke said:
Some reports say that there is only 6 years or known oil reserves left in UK waters and 9 years left in Norwegian waters. Links if needed.

Also various minerals are becoming scarce, such as Copper, Lead, Uranium, and various others. So finite resources yet ever increasing demand and ever increasing population. This topic has been going round for many years I know, but with Governments constant policy of continual economic growth we must obviously reach a tipping point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
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Well those some reports are wrong and completely off the scale pants on head retarded.

There is shed loads of O&G left across the N. Sea, Norwegian Sea and West of Shetland.

Scaremongering muppets with no clue do make my laugh.
 
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Well those some reports are wrong and completely off the scale pants on head retarded.

There is shed loads of O&G left across the N. Sea, Norwegian Sea and West of Shetland.

Scaremongering muppets with no clue do make my laugh.
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I've seen a shed once. It wasn't that big TBH.
 
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