We won't stop until we have consumed all the coal, oil and gas.
You can't conserve hydrocarbon fuels unless you bury a sack of coal in your garden.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
pstarr wrote:There is, and there will always be billions of barrels of oil too expensive to exploit
We will use all the fuel, that we can get to, in the end
pstarr wrote:If you live by an tired, picked-over, legacy coal seam. The rest, the 'accessible' coal, is long gone. long gone. Hence the monster trucks and giant earth movers to dig out the rest. these in turn depend on oil/diesel.Tanada wrote:Coal would be exploited even for cook stoves if it was accessible easier than firewood.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:I am talking about the scenario where fuel is precious and the wage slaves or outright enslaved persons are sent digging into the earth with picks and shovels under very hazardous conditions to provide fuel for the upper management and political administrators... Think Sector 12 in The Hunger Games, not mountaintop removal in 2012."
Plantagenet wrote:There is so little left on this planet that people are seriously considering mining asteroids.
Plantagenet wrote:If our society completely collapses it is unlikely to rise again, because all the good deposits of near surface oil and minerals have been totally used up. There is so little left high grade mineral ore left on this planet that people are seriously considering mining asteroids.
We'd better keep this society going, because there is no way we can start over with picks and shovels and find enough stuff to build another advanced industrial society up from scratch.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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