Where do you get those figures from?
Where do you get those figures from?
But we can soon go via Russia.
During WW2, when there was a real possibility that their oil might run out, Germany developed a jet engine that ran on powdered coal. Aircraft that carried their own nuclear reactor have also been built, although shielding was a problem with those.
Not when you make it from coal.
but when that's all you have left...
That's not talking about when the oil runs out.
Somebody who lives 20 years from now.
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It is...
When I was at university, oil was going to run out in the 1980's.
Economics 101. The oil isn't going to run out. It's going to get more scarce, and more expensive; but nothing like as fast as you might expect, because as the price goes up it becomes worth exploiting new sources.
There are any number of ways of making synthetic kerosene equivalents. Which route you take depends on whether a carbon tax gets introduced.
It's the climate change bullshit that might f*ck things up.
Whereas in the UK, we had some trucks run off gas from a woodburner in the back.
It's talking about when fossil fuels run out, a different matter entirely.
Which is why carbon tax might drive you towards biofuel. OTOH the vapour trails might provide enough offset.
I thought Top Gear made that up.
You never know, we might break out of global warming beliefs like most sensible folk broke out of going to church every sunday.
We also had cars that ran off chicken shit.
Isn't it easier to use a larger animal when acquiring fuel from excrement?
Oil is a fossil fuel dear, and its not talking about when they run out, just when the cost of extraction renders them uneconomic
Just one of them, cheep.
And when that happens with oil, there will still be plenty of coal and natural gas to turn into fuel for planes.
5-10 years for cheap oil, 10-20 for gas and 100 for coal
Perhaps
It?s a lot longer than that for all the coal.
No perhaps about it. And once the coal starts to get depleted, all of the use of that for power generation can be trivially replaced by nukes.
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