That is quite a mischaracterisation of a large number of the people who regularly post here. Is this intended as hyperbole for humour?Maddog78 wrote:No great apocalypse in 50 years.
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Nobody here except maybe shortie and Oilfinder2 even want to think about this.
I am wondering how much kgoe per person the UK was using in the 50s. I ask because my parents were alive then and I have a pretty good idea of the lifestyle achievable.Pops wrote:the per capita energy consumption of the entire world is about the same as Nigeria today - 776 kgoe, which is right at 10% of per capita consumption in the US. (2003 numbers) - pretty generous of me I think.
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How does the world look?
What do people do for a living?
Are they more happy/satisfied - less?
dorlomin wrote:That is quite a mischaracterisation of a large number of the people who regularly post here. Is this intended as hyperbole for humour?Maddog78 wrote:No great apocalypse in 50 years.
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Nobody here except maybe shortie and Oilfinder2 even want to think about this.
Maddog78 wrote:No great apocalypse in 50 years.
Natural gas will be the difference maker.
Nobody here except maybe shortie and Oilfinder2 even want to think about this.
There is a shit load of it left in the world. That is a technical term. A shit load.
EnergyUnlimited wrote:Maddog78 wrote:No great apocalypse in 50 years.
Natural gas will be the difference maker.
Nobody here except maybe shortie and Oilfinder2 even want to think about this.
There is a shit load of it left in the world. That is a technical term. A shit load.
Unfortunately this "shit load" are mainly methane hydrates which we are not really able to produce in economic way and also shale gas which requires a lot of drilling and expensive well casing tubing from Hastelloy or similar alloys which are already in short supply.
Short production lifetime of such wells don't help here as well.
There are also some arguments that shale gas project is an example of financial pyramid scheme which is bound to collapse within few years due to capital shortages and also due to shortages of acid resistant molybdenum alloys critical in such applications.
Environmental devastation is also of concern (particularly contamination of drinking water supplies in affected areas).
AI may be on a trajectory to surpass human intelligence; we should be prepared
Recent advances in artificial intelligence have prompted leading researchers to project that the pace of current progress may not only be sustained but may even accelerate in coming years. In May 2023, Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist who laid the theoretical foundations of deep learning, described a significant shift in his perspective: “I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.” He conjectured that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—AI that possesses the ability to understand, learn, and perform any intellectual task a human being can perform—may be realized within a span of 5 to 20 years.
Pops wrote:This thread was about 2060, peaked population and depleted fossils. What about 2030, population still growing and fossils just beginning to decline?
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