Are we blind? Can anyone out there help me? If we pump so many (thousands) barrells of oil per day, out of the ground. ...
How many days would it take to drain Lake Michigan? In less than a hunded years we have used and changed a natural resourse in an alarming rate (liquid to gas). Can you tell me what’s next?
David Eng
Mesa
Dale Whiting posted at 7:08 am on Fri, Mar 16, 2012.
No, Slabsied,
I studied geology, you know, the discipline related to finding crude oil under ground! It's one of those sciences you appear to disdain.
Slabside posted at 2:35 pm on Thu, Mar 15, 2012.
"Back in those times the earth had much less oxygen in its atmosphere and was much warmer."
And you know this how Captain Neo-Con? Were you there or did you just slam down another jug of Al Gore Elixir?
Dale Whiting posted at 8:59 am on Thu, Mar 15, 2012.
Hey, Gang,
You all did an interesting job connecting the dots for David. I was expecting another objection to global warming. Forget now who that nut case was. But I suppose he's been hired by the Koch Brothers! I understand the Kochs are considering building those domes! Those have to be kept secret, however. Otherwise the game will be spoiled.
Rational Human posted at 9:07 pm on Wed, Mar 14, 2012.
To make it simple for you, we have no other viable alternative to burning fossil fuels at the moment. I'm sure someone will eventually come up with a cheap source of energy, or we will go back to a much simpler time. Not worth whimpering about.
sockrat, you're such an optimist.
Maybe the alien space Gods will come back and save us. In any case, I won't be around to watch humanities last gasp. Really folks, I'm pretty sure the new world order will soon get things under control any day now and soylent green will be the staple of the masses. Cold fusion is just years away from reality. The brave new world will be such a heaven on Earth and everyone will be happy.
Rich posted at 7:37 pm on Wed, Mar 14, 2012.
Sock,
Neat dystopia. Your 'bang' v my 'whimper', Since neither of us will know who's right, I'll put ten dollars in my will for you and you do the same. So when it sorts out, our issue can buy an atoll off Tahiti from the French, drink mojitos and laugh at the rest of them.
sockratties posted at 7:05 pm on Wed, Mar 14, 2012.
Don't worry about it Dave... in a hundred years we will be out of potable water and food will be scarce. We will still be having wars but they will be from remote control inside domes where the air is breathable to those who have paid the dome owners association that supports the environment. The association will be an LLC owned by oil companies using drones owned by the banks to hit religious extremists who are killing to get food and water in the name of God. Nothing will have changed except the calendar.
Rich posted at 6:17 pm on Wed, Mar 14, 2012.
You know what a bell curve is? We are about 70-80% of the way up the left side, Our systems of politics and economics are so primitive, that we are no better than life in any other petrie dish. Took about 4000 years, whole cycle maybe 10,000. "This is the way in which the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper." - T. S. Eliot
Dale Whiting posted at 5:13 pm on Wed, Mar 14, 2012.
Ok, Dave, since you asked,
In addition to all that crude oil and natural gas, world wide, we are burning enornous amounts of coal. All three of these "natural resources" once were organic material living on the surface. The coal was plant life in shallow marshes like the marshes on the FA/GA line. The crude oil was intense algae blooms in shallow seas. Find crude oil and you have found a former shallow sea. And the natural gas was generated over time from both sorts of formations.
Back in those times the earth had much less oxygen in its atmosphere and was much warmer.
You connect the dots.