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>> No.4758696

tree hugging thread?

>> No.4758704

violent simians

>> No.4758818

once it's get more expensive, alternative energy will become viable

but countries that depend very much on selling oil will be screwed, lol Arabs

>> No.4758827

Yeah biofuels are sustainable at about $5 a gallon, so our real challenge is how to make electricity in 200 years when we start to run out of coal.

>> No.4758829

http://oilandglory.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/06/05/can_we_survive_the_new_golden_age_of_oil
/thread

>> No.4758830

1->2
2->4
3->4
4->6
5->5
6->4
7->4
8->4
9->4
10->x

How much is x?

>> No.4758847
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>>4758704
I'll kick your ass if you don't take that back.

>> No.4758852

>>4758830
5

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>>4758847

>> No.4758864

>>4758852

how?!

>> No.4758867

>peak IPv4
>peak radio
>peak lithium

>> No.4758881

>>4758696
>implying peak oil doesn't help trees by destroying human civilization

>> No.4758884
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>> No.4759114

Lol google shale we have enough to be on oil for another century once the technology improves, which it's expected to within the next decade

>> No.4759166

I'm just worried about China industrializing. Nearly 2billion gas-guzzling gooks.

Either way, it's the same as every other finite resource. The cartels that control it adjust the price for maximum profitability, and when it becomes no longer viable on the horizon, a handful of geniuses will design an alternative just in the nick of time. Until then everyone is too lazy to fund them.

Same shit as with the nuclear bomb. Nuclear technology was a neat idea for a while there but once the US Government realized you could fight a war with it they had their scientists get off their duffs and invent a bomb in about 5 years.

>> No.4759300

>>4758818
> once it's get more expensive, alternative energy will become viable

Except that too much of your society runs on CHEAP energy. Expensive energy breaks your civilization like a dried monkey penis.

HERP-DERP ELSEWHERE WHILE THE REAL MEN TALK IT THROUGH.

>> No.4759306

>>4759166
> The cartels that control it adjust the price for maximum profitability, and when it becomes no longer viable on the horizon, a handful of geniuses will design an alternative just in the nick of time.

FACEPALM.JPG

No amount of genius or technology CREATES ENERGY. We obtain energy from FOUND SOURCES.

Petroleum was the Maximum Fuel for our race. Nothing else that exists can beat it, for the combination of Cheap, Dense and Practical.

The faith that geniuses will "find" another magic liquid fuel, is just that: Faith. It has nothing to do with facts and logic: Science.

Fuck you Cornucopians right in your stupid religious asses.

>> No.4759311

>>4758847
> I'll kick your ass if you don't take that back.

You should be honored, assgadget. I'm Violent Simians Guy and I speak the truth.

>> No.4759317

>>4759306
>The faith that geniuses will "find" another magic liquid fuel, is just that: Faith. It has nothing to do with facts and logic: Science.

Said geniuses might figure out sustainable fusion power. Then we can just use hydrogen.

>> No.4759329

>>4759317
That shit, if possible, is perhaps a century away from being implemented.

>> No.4759379

>>4759317


Im so glad your plan is to kick the can down the road and let someone else solve the problem.

Our best hope is graphene batteries

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mfw retards think fusion is possible

pic related, your professors face when you ask him this

>> No.4759383

>>4759380

Its the same people who dont believe peak oil, so what do you expect...

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>>4759311

> I'm Violent Simians Guy and I speak the truth.

Except when you said they'll never electrify long haul trucking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp6yKsQxrHQ

No amount of incoherent, frothing rage can stop the future.

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4759386

why worry about peak oil?

that's a problem for the poor.

The solution is just don't be a member of the poor.

how many times do we have to go over this ???
/thread

>> No.4759387

>>4759385
The routes would be very limited and it's not new technology at all.

>> No.4759403

>>4759387

The routes used by long haul trucks are already limited. They're called interstates. Electrifying them eliminates 90% of gas use. These trucks don't have batteries for now, they switch over to gas for the last few miles, then get back on the interstate and switch back to electric. But they can easily, and eventually will be, converted to pure electric because with the supporting infrastructure on interstates there's nothing preventing it and an established economic incentive as proven by existing in-city electric delivery trucks.

>> No.4759417

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