Addicted to Money

[DimPrawn]

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2008/05/making-renewabl/


Sunlight, algae and CO2 and you have oil.

We won't run out of CO2 or algae or sunlight, so in a few years we'll have nothing to worry about. Apart from New Labour of course.

[Svalbaard]

The main point was there was only enough oil at current usage to last 30 years.

I'm pretty sure that prediction was first predicted in the 1970s. Whilst I don't totally condone it, I would have hoped that the last 30 or so years would have yielded some better evidence of its fruition whose providence is not from a cartel of producers whose sole role is to control the flow (and hence the price) of the old black stuff.

[cailin maith]

[Moose423956]

[Moose423956]

Does it taste like chicken

I think it tastes like snake. Actually, so does chicken.

[cailin maith]

Have you ever eaten moose before?

[alreadypacked]

I'd make a decent sized spit roast, so feel free if you're so inclined. Have you ever eaten moose before?

Does it taste like chicken

[alreadypacked]

Yip, but none of these theories account for new inventions etc. IE what if nuclear fusion was harnessed next week? All change …
Why do we all worry about what’s going to happen in the next 100 years? History has shown, we always predicted it wrong… shame as that is, cos as a teenager in the 80s glued to Tomorrows World I was really looking forward to driving my Hover Moped across the skies of London in 2001 ;-)

He interview some engery guys in China, they are currently building 200 nuclear power station

The problem is not 100 years away, it's less than 30 years.

[Jeebo72]

Yip, but none of these theories account for new inventions etc. IE what if nuclear fusion was harnessed next week? All change …
Why do we all worry about what’s going to happen in the next 100 years? History has shown, we always predicted it wrong… shame as that is, cos as a teenager in the 80s glued to Tomorrows World I was really looking forward to driving my Hover Moped across the skies of London in 2001 ;-)

[cailin maith]

Currently in Irel[/B]

Penance.... I hear ya....

We've been discussing Christmas... If I can go away without getting discommunicated from the family then I'm off!!!

[ThomasSoerensen]

Currently in Ireland, I have been watching a three part series "Addicted to Money" on rte.ie (available on iplayer)

The main point was there was only enough oil at current usage to last 30 years.

Current population growth will change that time line, but we are currently at the end of cheap oil.

The other point, we use oil to produce food. With more expensive oil comes more expensive food.

He also drew parallels with Easter Island and the Mien of South America.
When they used up all their resources they started to eat each other

How long before we become cannibals’

I have recently read the book, it is called something like "The coming collapse, How to thrive when oil is 200$ a barrel."

I found it flawed as it was published in 2007 and relied on the premise that there was to be no recession and real estate collapse - he explicitly writes that. But it had good parts.

[Moose423956]

I'd make a decent sized spit roast, so feel free if you're so inclined. Have you ever eaten moose before?

[tenpin]

He also drew parallels with Easter Island and the Mien of South America.
When they used up all their resources they started to eat each other

How long before we become cannibals’

That fat bloke in Ipswich will boil up nice and feed a few

[alreadypacked]

Currently in Ireland, I have been watching a three part series "Addicted to Money" on rte.ie (available on iplayer)

The main point was there was only enough oil at current usage to last 30 years.

Current population growth will change that time line, but we are currently at the end of cheap oil.

The other point, we use oil to produce food. With more expensive oil comes more expensive food.

He also drew parallels with Easter Island and the Mien of South America.
When they used up all their resources they started to eat each other

How long before we become cannibals’