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Estimated depletion of resources on Earth?
Posted on 7/19/15 at 11:33 pm
Posted on 7/19/15 at 11:33 pm
Surely this can't be accurate. What about recycling?
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Posted on 7/19/15 at 11:36 pm to Asgard Device
It goes back up after a bunch of folks die.
Posted on 7/19/15 at 11:40 pm to Asgard Device
Stopped reading when expected oil depletion estimated to occur at 2050.
Posted on 7/19/15 at 11:43 pm to Asgard Device
The fundamental fallacy behind it FWIW, is that it uses fourth grade math to extend the present indefinitely.
No supply and demand curves, much less new technologies and applications.
No supply and demand curves, much less new technologies and applications.
Posted on 7/19/15 at 11:54 pm to Asgard Device
If history is any indicator, these stupid things are always ridiculously wrong. We'll still be drilling for oil in 2050.
Posted on 7/19/15 at 11:55 pm to Asgard Device
I'm going to say that this chart is worthless.
I don't remember much from my nuclear engineering class... but I do remember that the US has thousands of years worth of available uranium for energy.
Of course technology and demand plays a big part of the above statement on nuclear power.
I don't remember much from my nuclear engineering class... but I do remember that the US has thousands of years worth of available uranium for energy.
Of course technology and demand plays a big part of the above statement on nuclear power.
Posted on 7/19/15 at 11:55 pm to Asgard Device
Plan C? 
Posted on 7/19/15 at 11:56 pm to Asgard Device
quote:Shirley, you are correct.
Surely this can't be accurate.
Posted on 7/19/15 at 11:58 pm to Asgard Device
So the Rare Earth Minerals are the least rare.
Got it.
Got it.
Posted on 7/19/15 at 11:58 pm to Scruffy
Posted on 7/20/15 at 12:00 am to Volvagia
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The fundamental fallacy behind it FWIW, is that it uses fourth grade math to extend the present indefinitely.
No supply and demand curves, much less new technologies and applications.
There's also just no accounting for God knows what will happen over this period of time. Technology and social changes, wars, who knows. There will be other resources that we will be relying on in time and a whole new unpredictable set of constraints.
Posted on 7/20/15 at 12:03 am to OysterPoBoy
Keep in mind the length of the list of metals that part of the chart has, and our rate of consumption is probably a lot lower.
And if I remember right, the rare earth metals were so called because they are so hard to find in economic concentrations in spite of being plentifully dispersed.
Almost all of the rare earth metals on the planet comes from China.
And if I remember right, the rare earth metals were so called because they are so hard to find in economic concentrations in spite of being plentifully dispersed.
Almost all of the rare earth metals on the planet comes from China.
Posted on 7/20/15 at 12:07 am to Volvagia
There goes my irony.
Posted on 7/20/15 at 12:09 am to OysterPoBoy
Sorry 
Posted on 7/20/15 at 12:10 am to Asgard Device
What's the source of that graphic? It really looks ridiculous even before you consider that they are leaving out a basically untouched continent to the south which we would harness for resources if push came to shove.
ETA: unless they are throwing Antarctica resources in with Oceania but it still looks just as ridiculous.
ETA: unless they are throwing Antarctica resources in with Oceania but it still looks just as ridiculous.
This post was edited on 7/20/15 at 12:14 am
Posted on 7/20/15 at 12:11 am to Asgard Device
Oil and especially Gas are so inaccurate, it's comical. It's a shame they damage their credibility like that, because there probably are some other resources on there that are very finite. We won't know from this chart because they are either liars or inept.
Posted on 7/20/15 at 12:22 am to Lou Pai
It doesn't even make sense. The two bars are "if production grows" and "if production remains static". If it remains static, we'll never run out by definition
Posted on 7/20/15 at 12:24 am to Asgard Device
There is no such thing as a finite natural resource. We have never run out of anything and we never will, mate.
This post was edited on 7/20/15 at 12:25 am
Posted on 7/20/15 at 12:35 am to SirWinston
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There is no such thing as a finite natural resource. We have never run out of anything and we never will, mate.
I pretty much agree with you and I upvoted your post, but this isn't entirely true. If you consider animals a natural resource, we have most certainly driven some to extinction.
Posted on 7/20/15 at 12:37 am to SirWinston
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There is no such thing as a finite natural resource. We have never run out of anything and we never will
Uh. What?
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