How long will coal, gas and oil last?

tommyhaas

Mr Cawley wrote: »

Are you American or influenced by American media? Your above post was nothing but propaganda! BP is thriving in America and we saw pictures of Tony Blair with Gadaffi helping sign BP to that country's reserves too.

Oil is being discovered everyday, seismic info on oil deposits is always being updated and as the barrel price goes up it will always be economical to extract.

Technology advances have come a long way in the last 15 years.

Many oil exploration firms are discovering in namibia, falklands, kurdistan, North Sea

I'd bet there'll be loads for this lifetime and a couple after!

No Im certainly not American, I was auctually criticising the Americans reaction to the spill and their vendetta against BP

I was at sea with BP for a number of years, and Im still in the industry so I know how the company works, and they're far from reckless, infact most of their own procedures are far more stringent then the offical requirements

My point was that the Americans reaction, and the reaction in general is likely to set the progress of deep sea drilling back given the extent of the (added) risk now attached to it, and at a time when it is extremely necessary

Capt'n Midnight

whale oil is renewable

cows emit methane

we can replace coal with charcoal from the Amazon / taiga


problem ? :pac:

Mr Cawley

Tonyandthewhale wrote: »

You say it'll be economical to extract as the barrel price goes up but the barrel of oil also becomes more difficult to afford as the barrel price goes up. Just because they could potentially sell oil for decades to come doesn't mean you'll be able to buy it or any products where a lot of it is used in production.

As for new discoveries, none of the recent discoveries have been as big as in Arabia or Russia. They're all relatively small-fry and they're getting harder and harder to find (not to mention the constant increase in demand for oil). Kurdistan has been in production for a while now, North Sea is almost finish, it's questionable whether the supplies in Falkland are big enough to bother with and Namiba's pretty small fry too.
Your predict that there's plenty for this life-time and the next isn't exactly accurate.

The North sea won't have major discoveries but there are blocks yet to be explored. Big blocks too in Kurd. ala Gulf Keystone

While Namibia and West Coast Africa is small fry now, as you say, seismics are beginning to show that it will be a major area in future.

Predictions are difficult, my comment was merely a suggestion that layman info, i.e. 30/40 years of oil left doesn't reflect the reality and is a lazy assupmtion by the people who take it as gospel.

imo.

I am not the gospel ha

ScumLord

Eric Cartman wrote: »

this is relevant to my interests, Cadillac Escalade and move to cork and commute to dublin every day here I come

I'd like to get a Cadillac Escalade to use as a camping stove. It would just be me, mother nature and the sound of a V8 redlining for however long it would take to cook a full pig.

Usersname

I lol every time I read about people replacing oil with biofuel etc etc. Oil is not just for electricity and cars people!

A documentary came out in 2009 called 'Collapse', check it out if you want to understand peak oil.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1503769/ can be a little sensationalist at times but the information seems solid.

Sea Sharp

People often forget the potential of bio-engineering.
I remember reading an article describing bacteria that consumed wood-chips and excreted an oil like substance.
Or GM crops that grow plants for ethanol used as fuel.
And the helium3 on the moon.
I can see a big switch to alternative fuels other than wave and wind towards the end of this decade and the next.