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We all know that resources are finite.
We all know that our economy, our energy supply and our industrial production are fully dependent on oil.
Peak oil has been reached some years ago.
The production of oil is going to rapidly decline within this decade.

What's science's answer to the problem of peak oil?

>> No.4589895

>What's science's answer to the problem of peak oil?
Improving our ability to efficiently extract energy from other sources. But it will require a lot of infrastructure to match our current energy budgets.

>> No.4589902

we can make it
http://youtu.be/AKxmqMH4w_A?t=27m16s

>> No.4589909

yeah I've lived through plenty of times people said peak oil is here. At least a decades worth, ill live through this one

>> No.4589911

SAGE

>> No.4589922

free energy
too bad capitalism won't let that fly

>> No.4589935

Peak oil is a "theory" contrived by "scientists" and is therefore supernatural and unscientific.

>> No.4589947

>>4589935
Oh wow, you don't even know my tripcode.

>> No.4589962

Peak oil is unfalsifiable.

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4589960

>that feel when peak oil

>> No.4589955

But what does this mean for qualia, the nonphysical substance of minds?

>> No.4589972

>>4589947
That is an unfalsifiable claim.

>> No.4589979

>>4589972
Of course. That means it is beyond science, and you can't deny it with observations of any kind.

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4589984

That's not a rigorously defined assertion. I shall have to correct you.

>> No.4590003

spamming us is awkward and agressive.
sage and report.

>> No.4590016

>>4589979
eventually the only oil available will be the oil that requires more oil to harvest than is harvested. This claim is not falsifiable in principle, only in practice because it's right.

>> No.4590021

>>4589979
Yeah, I can just deny it flat-out, because it's within the realm of magic where everything is possible as long as you believe.

>> No.4590057

peak peak oil threads.
It is here faggots we are going to run out of peak oil threads any day now.
There is only so much peak oil threads we can extract from /sci/ and we hit the maximum at 17:10.
What the fuck will we do without our peak oil threads.
/sci/ can not science without peak oil threads.
Our entire so/sci/oty must collapse without peak oil threads and we will be forced to eat OP.

>> No.4590123

>>4589884
The overall birthrates of the world started to decline.

Consumer items will continually shift towards virtual reality in the form of video games. Social gatherings will take place more and more online. Home Offices will grow in popularity. Increasing amounts of corn will be shifted into energy production as the population begins to decline.

Don't worry, OP. Everything's gonna be fine. The world has a funny way of working things out, and it will all be solved by something as simple as people deciding not to have kids because of the cost.