When do you think.........?

Question

fossil fuels will run out and what will happen when they do?

Answer 1

Running a car will become very expensive!

Britain also has 300 yrs of coal reserves but it is cheaper to import Polish coal and retrain our miners to become hairdressers and telephone sanitisers.

But seriously: there have been 30 years of proven oil reserves for the past century, because the more they look, the more they find. They only go to the expense of looking when the located reserves fall to about 30 years worth. Also the criteria about financially viable extraction alter every time the price goes up and previously non-viable reserves, ignored in the normal assessments, become more attractive.

Answer 2

They would run out in another four decades if they are continued to be used as recklessly as at present. We would have to think of alternative sources of enery like solar energy, energy from cowdung (Gobar gas)- the energy from the gas generated by the action of bacteria on cowdung, Nuclear energy , hydel power etc

Answer 3

Of course they will at some point and when they do there will need to be a major switch to renewable energy resources unlike the pathetic publicity stunts which attempt to fool us into believing we are already starting the switch!

Answer 4

Estimates show about 30 years left of proven oil reserves. However, interestingly the U.S. has about a 300 year supply of coal reserves.

Answer 5

About 22 years, then they will fret that they did not invest more in wave, wind and solar power. Of course the world will have ended by then due to nuclear power/bombs anyway!

Answer 6

Nuclear power,solar energy, wave energy etc