Peak oil

[AtW]

“Oil Companies Wonder If It’s Worth Looking for Oil Anymore

More European producers are saying energy resources worth billions of dollars now might never be pumped out of the ground.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...premium-europe

[Mordac]

“Oil Companies Wonder If It’s Worth Looking for Oil Anymore

More European producers are saying energy resources worth billions of dollars now might never be pumped out of the ground.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...premium-europe

As long as it's still there when the world runs out of lithium (or it become too expensive or difficult to mine), it'll be worth extracting again (or when people find out how long the batteries last, and how much they cost to replace.)

[Hobosapien]

As long as it's still there when the world runs out of lithium (or it become too expensive or difficult to mine), it'll be worth extracting again (or when people find out how long the batteries last, and how much they cost to replace.)

Maybe Musk is using SpaceX not only for the glory of space (i.e. Mars) but to chase down asteroids with high Lithium content. Would be more valuable than that gold space nugget 'gonna make us all billionaires ' reported recently.

[DimPrawn]

What next, coal left in the ground to rot.

[AtW]

World will move onto the next infinite energy source - Poopers dark matter poops

[DoctorStrangelove]

IIRC most of the s s and s were very unimpressed that we can't even get a simple fusion reactor to function properly after 60 years of trying.

[DimPrawn]

IIRC most of the s s and s were very unimpressed that we can't even get a simple fusion reactor to function properly after 60 years of trying.

Or harness unlimited and free zero point energy.

Harnessing Zero-Point Energy

Useless humans!