how much gas is left on the planet?

Answer 1

i dont think anyone could truly answer that question.

Answer 2

I'm not sure why I need to answer this question, but it must be because you have no idea about fossil fuel use. I will try and help you. If by gas you mean petroleum, then the answer is immediately if we stop processing it form crude oil. Other than that the world is in a constant cycle of gas production, you make it, cows make it,compost piles make it, so we will never run out, unless we render the planet sterile, but that is another topic.

Answer 3

The amount of gas "on" the planet is fairly constant, although the mixture of the various gases which make up the total varies over time.

Most of the gas surrounds the planet, and forms the atmosphere. 80% of this is nitrogen.

Answer 4

The earth is our spaceship on a long voyage and everything is being recycled. The leaves are washed down to the delta and packed there to produce oil & gas and if it stays a long time it will become coal. It is a large machine that terrible CO2 is absorbed by the plants and then they will be turned into oil etc. If our population continues to increase we may reach it's max. but it is a long ways off.

Answer 5

Are you talking about gasoline?

Gasoline is made from crude oil. Crude oil can be made into many other things as well, so it depends on what proportion the refineries want to make into gasoline.

No one knows how much crude oil is left. OPEC countries are hesitant the disclose the volumes it has at its disposal (if they did, we wouldn't panic every time they cut production causing the price to rise, and making them more money). New reserves are being discovered all the time. So it's hard to say, could be 50 years worth, could be 200 years worth, no one knows.

Answer 6

Assuming you are refering to gasoline, I believe that the origin of petroleum is most likely from methane migrating upward through cracks as theorized by Thomas Gold in his book deep hot biosphere. The methane is from the original accretion of the earth. The methane is then consumed by bacteria many miles deep. The bacteria change much of the methane to heavier hydrocarbons. There are rivers of Methane on the moon Titan. Earth may be similar except that oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere has converted it to CO2 and the life and geologic forces has converted much of the CO2 to carbonate minerals. Much of the methane that moves upward gets stored in geologic traps, is converted to petroleum, coal and methane hydrate deposits deep within the ocean and some just migrates upward into the atmosphere where it quickly oxidizes. The answer then to how much methane, as well as the fuels which are derived from methane, (petroleum, coal, and methane hydrates), do we have. The answer will annoy many pessimists but it is surely thousands of years.

Answer 7

In the normal form of gas pockets trapped in convenient geology, there is lots - many decades at least. In the UK continental shelf, there ain't much.

Trapped in Arctic permafrost, there is an astonishing quantity, but climate change is about to release all of that straight to air shortly without any benefit to us, and with considerable disbenefit (CH4 is 21 times worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas)

Gas hydrates (trapped in frozen water at high pressure on the ocean floor) adds another huge quantity. But extracting that would be an environmental rape on an astonishing scale.

Answer 8

Don't worry as my economic teacher said. We will never ever run out of gas. At some point when the supply reaches a certain amount the price rises. At some point the price will rise to more than a $1000 per gallon. When it gets that hi I along with everybody is getting a bike or a hydrogen powered car. SO we will never run out if you look at it from an economical point of view. we have plenty.

Answer 9

First you figure out what kind of "gas" you are talking about. If you are talking about "gasoline" you start out by figuring how how much petroleum there is, then factor how much of the petroleum will be used in the production of gasoline in lieu of other products that are made from it. That will get you started.

Answer 10

It's a cyclic procedure.
All petroleum products are made up of Carbonic residuals ,which are deposited beneath the Earth
surface,Time to time .It is in the Earth's history,How and when all of this is deposited on the mass level.
That's why We can presume only not sure.

Answer 11

Enough to last until the last Thursday of June in the year 2037