RE: Peak Oil?
November 10, 2021 at 1:09 pm
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2021 at 1:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We have enough oil to turn this world to ash many times over, but, like you say....it's not really a question of if or of when. We don't want to hit peak oil, we have every reason to stop drinking before we crash the car into a brick wall.
If we ever did hit it, everything else is moot. We're dead. We'll have poisoned ourselves through gluttony all the while depleting the very chemicals which might otherwise save our lives. Nitrogen demand alone goes up about 5% per year, and it's already in the hundreds of millions of tons range. Some people wring their hands worrying about peak oil, I'm over here wondering about peak fertility...which we'll hit alot sooner as a consequence of organic chemistry.
Heres a sobering fact for our uk members. You hit peak fertility so long ago that in the absence of petrochemical fertilizers you couldn't grow enough crops on your land to feed everyone anymore. The us has a little more leeway, but not much..because wre were pioneers in fertility extraction..so even though we've been using it up for less time, we were using it at a faster rate - a callback to fracking. It takes 800 years to make an inch of fertile soil. Minimum.
If we ever did hit it, everything else is moot. We're dead. We'll have poisoned ourselves through gluttony all the while depleting the very chemicals which might otherwise save our lives. Nitrogen demand alone goes up about 5% per year, and it's already in the hundreds of millions of tons range. Some people wring their hands worrying about peak oil, I'm over here wondering about peak fertility...which we'll hit alot sooner as a consequence of organic chemistry.
Heres a sobering fact for our uk members. You hit peak fertility so long ago that in the absence of petrochemical fertilizers you couldn't grow enough crops on your land to feed everyone anymore. The us has a little more leeway, but not much..because wre were pioneers in fertility extraction..so even though we've been using it up for less time, we were using it at a faster rate - a callback to fracking. It takes 800 years to make an inch of fertile soil. Minimum.
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