Comments on: How Much Oil is Actually Left On This Planet? Should We Care?

By: Adam Heslop

Adam Heslop — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:53:59 +0000

I love Teresa

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By: T

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:37:34 +0000

The real problem is not technology, the problem is the collapse of the global economy following a switch from fossil fuels…which will bring on a horrific period in human society……why most clean energy technologies are not profitable the way fossil fuels are.

By: howard huges

howard huges — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:14:43 +0000

There was a planet called earth. Human beings used oil wells to obtain oil. One day oil was all gone. Our history has proven that it takes oil to lubricate a planet. Early man found out the hard way by depleting oil, the major ingredient and most basic element for planet function. Today if we were living on earth without its internal clock movement there would be no movement at all. When earth was in existence, there came a time when there were oil men that harvest all oil. Mankind used oil to run their engines. You put a tiny hole in the crank case and drive what early man called a car down the road, sooner or later it would run out of the stuff (OIL) causing the engine to freeze up rendering it useless. Through time man has progressed. We know now that if you burn all the oil out of a planet there is NO more lubrication to run the planet. If you can name the author of these words you are a very smart man. Great earthquakes and tidal waves will destroy the earth too and causing all life to cease. A planet without oil is a dead planet. Renewable energy is the future. The sun on earth shined for billions of years and created far more energy than any other man could muster. Foot note: Earth had oil mongers. If you want your planet to function for millenniums to come, stop this now or suffer the consequences.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:59:56 +0000

The fact that people are even throwing around numbers that we may run out of oil in a mere 30 years is all we should need to know. Even if that number is 100 years or more it is still something we need to start acting on. How foolish it sounds to quibble about the number as all of the estimates are pretty eminent. The sad thing is that most people probably have no idea that we could run out of oil that fast.

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By: Davy

Davy — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:50:45 +0000

All the latest thoughts and so called innovative ideas or what ever we want to call them are like a Leedammer moment or like one of those Swiss cheeses they are so full of huge holes and over guessergramed figures that we are missing the real picture here, the Semi truck mentions the word Diesel fuel, I admit it might make a gallon of fuel go that little bit further, but burning one fuel to produce another is a sure way to burn it all, its long term effect will be the same, gone.

In this ever expanding same day next day Britain is where most of our problems lie, we would be much better off planning for the future, for local home grown products instead of wasting the energy as I have already spoken about, bringing a bucket of steam from China, sorry to be so blunt here but its just like that.

What I cannot understand is, oil is so cheap at the moment, why on earth arn’t we doing something more right now, if there are some really wierd and wonderful energy saving ideas that will help elleviate our problems, why are thay not doing it today, surely this has to be the best way out as you call it for everyone, why keep it a best kept secret until its too late, doesn’t hold water I’m affraid.

Oil is king at the moment and we had better get to the bottom of our problems before we get to the bottom of the well, or you know full well what is going to happen, prince charles has been trying to tell us about it for decades, seems no one is listening though, time will tell I suppose.

By: Davy

Davy — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:50:00 +0000

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By: Davy

Davy — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:35:43 +0000

Chuck said :

The idea that we can not have at lease the United States on renewable fuel by 2109 is only true if we are dumb enough to believe it. Biodiesel from algae could replace all of our petrofuel within that time, if we start now to do so. What is needed is the will and the ability to prevent the so called environmentalists and the “save the salmonella” groups from stopping the progress. Methane, the most common component of natural gas is easily manufactured and there are already conversion kits on the market for converting gasoline and diesel powered vehicles to use compressed natural gas. The USAF already has certified a large part of its fleet to fly using a 50% mixture of JP8 and 50% synthetic paraffinic kerosene. This fuel is also used for all ground support equipment already. They are working on full synthetic fuel. There are 2 different groups of airlines and aircraft manufacturers working on a full synthetic fuel for airline use.

WE can be sure that the capability to do the change is well under development. The time could be shorter than anyone expects. I see the biggest problem as convincing people who have not been near a new diesel pickup to using diesel engines in their cars. (For what is possible there run an internet search for “Jaguar XF2.7D test reports”. ) These capabilities can easily tide us over until we no longer need any petrofuel.

We should also consider that the algae which would be used for biodiesel also has a voracious appetite for CO2, and gives off as a by product large quantities of O2. The remaining algae can be used as fodder, fertilizer, or feed stock for celulastic methanol.

Batteries will surely continue to get better and better. Electric cars are coming and these biofuels will surely provide a great bridge as well as continued use where appropriate for a long time after.

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Dear Chuck

I ask you this, what makes you think the ones with the money are going to spend the best part of their money in order of as you said by tiding us over, every government and petrolchemical giant for the last 100 years has done absolutely nothing to elleviate what we are talking about today.

Oil is so cheap and abundant at the moment, the algea method is a pure pipe dream and pie in the sky at best just like the Hydrogen idea, which would take way to long to be made to work by the time we were anywhere near that goal, all the oil and ready enegry needed to carry out these tasks would be gone.

On the other hand there would be plenty of people to do the pedalling with, but not enough food to feed them.