Does end of fuel mark the end of technology and eventually human race ?

Question

With the madenning spree that the modern civilization is utlilizing fuel, there is little hope that the end of petrol/fuel would mark the end of all this technology (electricity, wireless comm, tech gadgets, vehicles). So, imagining the fuelless life on earth is pathetic as all of us have become so dependant of this form of energy. So might argue about solar/nuclear energies but don't you feel these are too limited to be exploted ?

So, we might end up dying without food in the long run, or the corporate offices and huge structures which were built will be electricity less and eventually no body would be able to travel. So, this present way of exploiting fuel is leading us to a global suicide.(atleast future generations are going to suffer). What do you think ?

Answer 1

You're scenario is right around the corner. In 50 years, we'll be at 10 billion souls at our current rate of growth. there'll be zero fossil fuels, zero coal and other natural resources. Wars will be fought over water. The burgeoning populations will be mostly in the third world countries.

Will technology save the day?......maybe. Will we change our ways and avoid the impending train wreck?....doubtful. Will there be some cataclysmic event that will bring us back down to more sustainable levels, say 3 billion?.....probably.

Answer 2

two opinions here

1) humans lived the last 100 years with fuel and the first 50,000 without it. im sure we'll get by but there would prolly be a mass die off to the surplus population that we have.

2) there is no fuel shortage all this we hear about gas running out and it take millions of years to make is lies fuel by all govn't in order to drive up prices on all goods. some experts believe that gas and oil and a nartual resource that is being replenised all the time by the earth. Did u ever notice that when one place run out of oil we some how find a new place that has been untapped. ie gulf of mexico, off the atlantic. Read the book "Blackgold Stranglehold".

3) one other thing i forgot the earth WILL NEVER RU OUT OF OIL, b/c of simple economic. SUPPLY AND DEMAND, as we have less oil the price will rise as we get to the last few billion barrel the price will be so high no one can afford it, so i mean we can't use b/c it will cost to much but then again we will not run out lol.

Answer 3

Nope. We get plenty of energy from the sun. Also there is wind energy, nuclear, geo-thermal and tidal. The only reason we are so hitched to oil is cause it makes fat cats fatter, and, right now, it is still pretty inexpensive to get a hold of. Once the wellspring of oil starts drying up we'll have to switch to other sources of power, the fatcats will change their stock portfolio and start making oodles of money off of cleaner more efficient fuel sources. Look how fast the electric grid was set up once people decided then wanted/needed it. We'll just start using more energy efficient engines and technology.
Or we'll all end up driving around killing each other for some gas, like in the Mad Max movies.
I'm betting on option #1.

Answer 4

i don't think that would be the case. technology will continue to advance even now. we have phones that can do pretty much the same thing as a computer you have on a desk. at the same time, that piece technology allow you to communicate to other people miles and miles away. and if they already have the technology for a car to consume lesser gasoline and double the mileage, i won be surprise if there are actually things/machines out there that can produce energy that last a day from a gallon of water. but, since majority of the human race live in a capitalistic society, where profit is the utmost priority, the oil reserve will be used-up (eventually) before such machines appear in the market. so, no its not global suicide, its called "marketing".

Answer 5

There is plenty of fuel, only the government regulations/environmentalist wacko groups are prohibiting us from getting it.

The sun will die out someday too, so no fuel is infinite. However, we can continue to use these fuels until such time as an alternative energy source is devised. Of course that also goes with the assumption that the government/environmentalist wacko groups will allow it. Nuclear has been proven safe, but a bunch of wackjobs don't want it, so there have been no Nuclear power plants built in this country for decades.

Answer 6

No,not really. It's not as if we're talking about food. I don't believe that life will change much when the end of fuel finally happens because I'm sure that alternatives are already being considered but they're probably hidden from the public because it is convenient so that we keep buying fuel. Anyway,if it happens,probably we will have to change our economic system - in which countries specialize in the things they produce better. Perhaps each country will have to produce according to its needs,leaving the international commerce a bit - not to say a lot - affected. What I mean is - though we probably will face some major changes - we will eventually adapt to the new circumstances because that's what History is about.

Answer 7

Absolutely. However, fuel is not simply oil. Humans have survived for a long, long time BEFORE "oil"....because they used other things, notably wood and sunlight, for fuel.

Remember the first trains - they weren't diesel were they?

So if we end up completely out of any form of fuel, yes, it would mark the end. But that hasn't happened yet, and probably won't. The sun will always be there, rivers and oceans, in the near term, nuclear energy, etc. etc.

Oil is fuel but not all fuel is oil.

Answer 8

Members of Team Human Race(THR) becomes extinct every day to those who are no longer alive and becomes absolutely extinct when there will nobody alive at all to know that it exists; it will never have existed at all. Sort of the same thing as the human race not existing to a person to be born thousands of years ago before any of their ancestors got to know any of each other. Nothing to be bothered about when the bothering about itself will never have existed in the first place. After all how can a person have an earlier memory than now of being awake if they don't wake up to have it? Pointless being born when you can't know you ever were? Of course, but that disappears too with individual and team human race extinctions. Religious folk get out of eternal oblivion by making out that each and every person exists eternally in the knowledge of the Deity and an individual's eternal knowledge of their 'him'- the holy point to life..

Answer 9

There will always be fuel - not necessarily oil. When you add coal, oil shale and oil sands into the equation, It is unlikely we will run out of fossil fuel before we develop cleaner, cheaper sources of energy (we have hundreds of years of these reserves).

We will likely have fusion, geo-thermal, solar, wind, wave, hydroelectric running an all electric world in less than 100 years. We have most of these technologies now

So there may be some ugliness, shortages, and consequences (like melting ice caps) of our fossil-fuel based energy use in the near term.

Life may be very different if we must abandon our coastal cities, but we won't run out of fuel and the lights will always be on.

Answer 10

There was life even before man could discover the uses of fuel. Don't underestimate the power of human mind. We will make best use of the gifts nature has given us---the elements, wind, water, fire, sun and earth. Maybe we will be better off without contributing to the pollution and making earth breathe a sigh of relief...