Will Fossil Fuels Run Out? | Earth Science

[@chickenguy999]

You also need oil for the production of plastics so we still have to worry about that

[@casesmith1]

Kol Jo there are plant alternatives. might be another avenue to invest reasurch in. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioplastic

[@tyscof]

bioplastic sucks

[@gustavgnoettgen]

Kol Jo Bakelite and Co. sucked, then came science. As long nobody wants bioplastic, it won't get better, but it can and will... and does

[@cpufreak101]

Kol Jo isn't it also proven that a plastic could be made from Hemp Fibers?

[@noobslayer815]

pfifo fast yeah but the energy required to convert back in forth increases every time.

[@27Zangle]

Good video. I have a degree dealing oil / natural gas. I live next to an oil field that once ran "out" of resource, and by this I mean it went from producing 20k BBL/day to just 20 BBL/day. 15 years later they went back to check old equipment and after checking the down hole pressure they realized AND learned the 'rock' around the formation was porous enough that oil during this time was seeping back in. This was the first oil well scientist and industry realized that oil in fact over time WILL refill the well. FURTHERMORE, they have developed unique techniques to "wash" oil off and out of walls without fracking to recover more. This is what they're doing on Alaska's north slope. They have 30 - 40 more years of oil because of this. ALSO there has been some new discoveries in which have not been mentioned to the community yet. Would like to say I am all for renewable "green clean" energy, but want people to realize to manufacture, dig, and transport this stuff still requires coal / crude products, especially when it comes to maintenance.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

What are they using to "wash" crude oil out of old deposits? Solvents?

[@FizzVizard]

Maybe it was because oil is actually abiogenetic and will renew itself, makes more sense than created by once living organisms.

[@gastromacho2]

Simple logic 1. We do not know when our fossil fuel will run out, but we know nature's supply is limited, we cannot produce fossil fuels. 2 with 7 billion people and rapidly growing population in the world--all wanting to have a life like Americans--demand for energy will grow rapidly. 3. we better find other sources of energy before we suddenly realize we running short of fuels.

[@27Zangle]

@@gastromacho2 - Other resources are a good idea but remember oil is needed for everything from strip mining to the grease in the wheel bearings and plastics found in the Tesla. Wind turbines are very bad, they have a larger oil consumption footprint and then their blades are not recyclable with large blade graveyards. I think green energy does not exist, not at least in the sense they want us to believe, but greener energy does exist. I do not think we will fully get away from oil ever, actually, I am 100% positive about that. I personally don't know the answer and honestly, no one does know. Perhaps in the future, we will have a better understanding of figuring something out that is high energy and low impact. We just need to be smarter with our consumption to start with. Why buy a new car every couple of years? 95% of big truck owners only have them because it is a status symbol in America, they do not need or use that truck for its intended purpose the majority of the time.

[@damaliamarsi2006]

@@27Zangle GE just created a thermoplastic blade that is 100% recyclable. I think wind and solar have a place and we should move to renewables, but I see it as an AND not an OR, or a JUST.

[@Adam-lf9vs]

I went to school in the 90s and was told we would have ran out by now

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

Adam We ran out if cheap stuff years ago. Oil used to be below $10 a barrel. Now it will never go below $40 a barrel. And have you seen the source of oil these days? Alberta bitumin is essentially road tar... they're boiling road tar to get gasoline and leaving behind a toxic moonscape for future generations. Fracking... breaking rocks for natural gas and not giving a fig about the effects on ground water and geostability. Deep water... oil rigs on the high sea drilling into wells miles under water. These are not your grandaddy's sources of oil.

[@mr.anderson9938]

I went to school in the 90's and they said god was real.

[@rotazd]

Geography teachers will be telling kids 'Oil will run out in 30 years time' for at least another century.

[@isorokudono]

HAHAHAHA It's the future checking in. AMERICA IS NOW THE LARGEST SUPPLIER OF OIL AND FUEL IN THE WORLD. We now export to Saudi Arabia. Kudos.

[@isorokudono]

I doubt anyone told you that at your prussian marxist playpen where they taught you to push a broom.

[@josephfox9221]

wait. is there still baby oil? or will we run out?

[@OriginalPiMan]

We will always have baby oil so long as people are willing to wring it out of babies. Alternatively, I'm pretty sure baby oil is a plant based oil, and so we will have supplies as long as there are people growing the crops that we process into products like baby oil. EDIT: Nope, I'm wrong. Baby oil is derived from crude oil. That said, I'm sure humanity can come up with plenty of plant oil substitutes by the time we stop using crude.

[@josephfox9221]

OriginalPiMan squish all the babies!

[@xDevilAngle]

OriginalPiMan are girls guide cookies made of girls guide?

[@OriginalPiMan]

BLAH Check the ingredients. If it says "soylent green" then you know you're getting your money's worth.

[@saamamerat1061]

Just keep making those babies and it won't run out.

[@JamesDillard-x1h]

Petroleum is more than a fuel Commodities like asphalt, tires, medicine, lubricants, paints, plastics, nylon, textiles, rugs, adhesives, etc. are made out of petroleum. Fracked petroleum is a very lightweight oil that is only a source of fuel. The US fracked petroleum is exported and the heavy petroleum that our refineries can make all of the non fuel commodities out of is imported. When petroleum is history, the world will be back in the 1880s with wooden wheels, dirt roads, no medicines etc As a PhD Chemist, I am very concerned about the future for our kids

[@JamesDillard-x1h]

You are exactly correct I am also a PhD Chemist and give lectures on “Petroleum, more than a fuel” at ACS meetings

[@misakamikoto8785]

What will happen if Fossil Fuels Run Out? Can we decrease usage of crude oil? Corona: Say no more. We got you.

[@HacksignKT]

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[@HacksignKT]

worst girl xD

[@khadijausmani8977]

@@HacksignKTeany!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@BastardOfTheNorth]

@@HacksignKTLiar.

[@in8187]

Fossil fuels are a lie 👇

[@timorean320]

Fossils are not found after about 8K feet, no deeper. We drill for Oil at over 20K feet. The word "Fossil" was only added to make it seem scarce.

[@heliomoonwave]

Big Oil won't let us move on to all the better alternatives out there until every last glistening drop of black gold has been milked from the ground.

[@ZackMartin177]

Big oil will be the 1st to sell microsingularities when they are ready to power the world

[@in8187]

Fossil fuels are a lie 👇

[@in8187]

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[@chasejordan22]

Lol The big bad oil companies that have kept our houses warm and our cars moving.... They made money for that? Evil bastards....

[@garthlyon]

Key problems of current renewables are a) inability to store electricity, and b) variance in generation out of phase with consumption and not conducive to grid high voltage maintenance. This means that for every wind turbine or solar panel you need back-up by a constant always-on source. The choice here is either nuclear or non-renewables. So for every pretty windmill you spot, a nasty nuclear/conventional power station is lurking in the background.

[@mc4105]

Nuclear Fusion is absolutely monumental to our survival long term. A power plant the size of Chernobyl would be able to provide power to the entire planet for about a thousand years.

[@apetogetherstrong4243]

@@mc4105 my fear is fusion reaction used in warfare.We know how deadly fission reaction is.We can wipe the entire planet,wildlife and ecosystem in minutes using fission reaction nuclear warfare we have today which has a fraction of the energy of fusion reaction. Humanity could explode the earth if he turned fusion reaction in warfare equipment and it has a high possibility considering the fact the fusion requires very little matter as input and there are things like asteroid mining and outer planatery bombing that could be possible by it

[@cCiIcCo]

@@mc4105 We are currently so far away from a functional fusion reactor, that the discussion about it baffles my mind.

[@chaselee86]

@@cCiIcCo That's not true. Scientists have harnessed nuclear fusion and produced positive results already. The technology will be there within decades.

[@Diqed]

What is nasty about nuclear power?

[@craigreustle2192]

Obviously, there is a finite amount of oil and if we keep using it we will run out. However, the oil companies that did the "research" for when we will run out have a huge financial interest in leading people to believe we will run out sooner than later.

[@richardcowley4087]

these liars in the bbc will do more of that

[@frankfalkenburry5373]

you can replant trees. that's a fossil fuel. so it's infinite.

[@user-pr6lv7nd6l]

wait for million years

[@redditor7548]

Nope, oil replenishes itself faster then we can use it

[@xidjazulix]

How do you figure? It would just push an interest into alternative energy sources faster, thus destroying their fossil fuel sectors

[@scottrc5776]

we need more plants...

[@nekroneko]

Solar Electric plants, Geothermal plants, and farms full of wind turbines.

[@Trpodification1]

Ye, like weed

[@lapamful]

Scott RC Co2 will help with that.

[@OutOfNameIdeas2]

lapamful co2 will poison plants IF its a lot of it. clever kid. lets burn oil so we get More plants, geniouS.

[@lapamful]

Right, and where the hell has Co2 ever been anywhere near that kind of level in history?! There have been volcanic eruptions that have released more Co2 than all of human history and Co2 levels hardly moved, let alone reached the levels during the dinosaurs (which was only 4 or 5 times the Co2 levels we have now), and places like the Sahara were jungles. Me thinks thus doth scaremonger a little too much.

[@kingjok3rz]

*petrol heads watching in nervousness*

[@D8W2P4]

+richard garcia Oh oil ran out, guess I'll just use this mile long list of other flammable liquids/gases.

[@muhdelyas-abgyas562]

I'll make biopetrol instead

[@randyhofer2523]

No they are not nervous,they know that oil renews itself,and a lot faster than you think

[@cs0345]

They would just invest into renewables and actually still benefit from higher prices.

[@DhirC35]

I thought id never find one in these comments. I jus wanna build my 2j and my cummins before they stop producing gas😢 Speaking of, anyone know when they will stop?

[@jackrand9478]

Well, im lucky i'll die before the oil ran out

[@MartinMartinez-vx8qw]

Efficiency is the only thing holding us back from renewable energy. I don’t believe creating energy from renewable sources is the problem if I remember correctly, it’s the fact the it’s hard to store that energy in a cost efficient manner. I bet it won’t be long until we figure out that problem

[@AKHalex]

So you are saying that there's about 50 years of oil and natural gas left, and if we use just a third of that (about 17 years), the planet will experience an overall temperature increase of 2 degrees celsius which is super bad? Uh... sounds like we don't have much time left.

[@VytautasLDK]

White bears will loose their natural habitat and start roaming in streets on London and New York eating people on sight just because you needed that back cover of your iphone. Think about Planet while we still have time...

[@magnuskremlin]

I would just like to point out that the average global temperature has only risen by about 1.2°C since 1880. I haven't been able to find a single source that claims that consuming 17 years worth of fossil fuels will cause another 0.8°C. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a supporter of continued use of fossil fuels, but I have more reasons than the global temperature. I just don't think that replacing them with expensive, unreliable wind turbines that have to actually be shut down when the wind speed is too high is a particularly good idea.

[@homm3bonedragon242]

Per they're designed that way for god's sake. They're not unreliable, they're clever. It would be like running a nuclear power plant with too much Uranium in the reactor. Offshore wind is the most cost effective renewable energy for many countries around the world, especially Britain and Scandanavia. I don't like the crap that gets tossed around about wind turbines by people who don't know what they're talking about. I thankfully DO know what I'm talking about, seeing as I'm an Environmental Engineer and all, and I can TELL you that the "problems" with wind turbines are all bollocks. They provide a plentiful and reliable energy source

[@magnuskremlin]

They're unreliable because they rely on a natural phenomenon that humanity has no hope of controlling. Wind power works as an excellent supplement but is unlikely to ever function as a primary energy producer. In 2015, according to government statistics, energy consumption stood at 303TWh. During this same period, wind turbines generated a mere 40TWh. Assuming that energy consumption doesn't increase, to completely replace fossil fuels, the country would need nearly 5 times as many wind turbines as have been built in the last ten years. And you'd probably need more than that to account for when wind speed is too low, or so high that the turbines have to be shut down to prevent damage caused by the tips creating a sonic boom. I don't have a problem with wind turbines as an energy supplement to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, but they cannot stand as a truly viable replacement

[@luukkramer]

Lawrie Swinfen-Styles there are plenty of problems with wind turbines, the least of which are things like driving away marine life. the best solution to energy seems, to me at least, nuclear power and eventually fusion.

[@qasimmir7117]

Don't what we'll do without oil, but for energy production: Wind turbines, solar panels, tidal are useless they don't produce enough power. The answer is nuclear and geothermal to replace coal, oil, and gas when they run out.

[@DakuHonoo]

uranium for the first decades, thorium for the upcoming centuries and fusion somewhere on the road

[@paulbaker916]

Energy production is one issue associated with oil usage and there are numerous alternatives for that. But what about plastic production? Are there alternatives to this issue that can match current production rates?

[@lucbos7516]

petroleum is a mineral fuel pumped up from a depth of up to 10 km It's endless

[@NandyF50]

It’s not fossil fuel.. it was considered fossil fuel when in the Geneva convention of the late 1890’s gave definition of what an organic matter is. 3 elements that also this mineral “petroleum” had which then was considered fossil fuel since it came from Under the ground to sell it as it’s scarce like Diamonds… It’s a mineral

[@manjirum]

I think that the reason we haven't been able to innovate our stuff is due to the lack of a sustainable energy source, and a powerful one too

[@ON3L0VEwalrus]

uh, oil is pretty sustainable, i hear. but don't worry, there are no chemtrails (just solar geoengineering), they aren't trying to chip you (just give you an implantable way to scan your bank account for groceries), they aren't going to try to force vazzinate us (blowvid21), and the elite have no interest in locking us down and silencing us (true dough).

[@lucbos7516]

petroleum is a mineral fuel pumped up from a depth of up to 10 km

[@mjribes]

1) We are producing way too much oil atm. Much more than demand. Hence the low oil price and the fact that we're running out of storage space. 2) Big oil producing countries know that quite a large proportion of their proven reserves Will never be taken out of the ground either due to cost of extraction / deflated oil price or technological advancement meaning that the oil won't be needed. 3) If we were to run out of oil while we were still reliant on it the world population would halve in a few years due to mass starvation. Currently most of the first world import most of their food, and countries that don't usually don't produce their food near their population centres. These are all transported with the aid of hydrocarbons and many are fertilised with hydrocarbons too. Don't worry, 3 won't happen because of 2.

[@highcard3027]

Its strange that No Fossils exist at the depth of most oil reserves.

[@SapphireAI2O3]

fossil of micro organism eons ago.....

[@highcard3027]

@@SapphireAI2O3 That's amother unbelievable theory

[@iwantmykidssusan4941]

Bacteria at the beginning of life on earth were photosynthetic. After millions upon millions of years, certain types of fungi and bacteria developed the ability to digest and thus decay organic material, rather than using the sun for energy. At that point, the trillion tons of organic material laying around suddenly decomposed completely. At that point, oil production on earth grinded to a near halt. All the oil we have access to is from a specific point in earths history. Hence why it’s only found at certain depths underground. I’m sure Scishow has a video on it if you’d like to educate yourself further. Quick side note, humans know how to make oil. It’s literally just hydrogen and carbon. It would make your gas $20 a gallon, but we’ll never run out.

[@terenceiutzi4003]

All of our coal was produced prior to 300 million years ago before fungus evolved to eat plastics, so we have a limited supply of coal. But oil and Gas are constantly being produced by nature, and it appears at a faster rate than we use it.

[@leekrd]

I struggle thinking oil companies would invest billions into something that would run out. Another scam like diamonds

[@lawrencesmith6804]

What is this dude doing with his hands?

[@jasperfk]

Lawrence's Gaming Channel gesturing, because the shit he's saying isn't important enough to keep our attention

[@tentifr]

Mr. Flapjack Presents its called *gestures* , we italians have been doing this for ages

[@rustyguts7791]

What can't we just find away to speed up the process of making oil. Like how we before the microwave was invented people had to wait longer to cook food in there ovens. What I'm trying to say is we could artificially create coal and oil in a fraction of the time

[@klevni]

It would still be bad for the planet though

[@alientezari6344]

something cool is that his watch is reflecting the green screen behind him and the computer is adding that blue background to his watch

[@GregFoot]

ooo that's a good spot! I'll take my watch off next time!

[@RennieAsh]

That happens in a few videos I watch (sorry). But it makes it look cool in those cases!

[@amin7581]

Most of current "sustainable energy" requires fossil fuel to produce. While it is possible to extract something like ethanol without electricity or gas, it would take ton of times and human energy to produce.

[@brettlee6211]

i think the issue is no longer, we will run out but how much damage will it do before we switch to clean energy

[@euphoriabtw]

Is it just me staring at his hands just flaring around?

[@pandorawolf8239]

Greggy is still my favorite of the Britlab bunch.

[@GregFoot]

PandoraWolf why thank you 😊😊😊

[@salmanhisham5155]

Just a thought, there a alot of proven oil reserves actually.But we don't have the required technology to extract it out yet.The use of petroleum as fuel may be obsolete in the coming 50 years.But crude oil is still required in many industries as well.For an instance the plastic,adhesives,rubber, pharmaceuticals and also as chemical solvents. So our dependency on oil will be not totally over just yet.

[@FenixDown147]

Footnotes are brilliant!

[@joelbeske1504]

WRONG! Petroleum is drilled below the level of fossils. So, it's been determined that petroleum isn't a fossil fuel. Late 1890's, the term "Fossil fuel" was invented to imply a limited source. Thereby increasing prices.

[@matthyslip]

Fossil fuels is a misnomer. What we call oil itself is self replenishing

[@VytautasLDK]

"All scientists agree that oil will end up till year 2000." - All scientists, 1985.

[@jag_meistermeister4839]

VytautasLDK and drills that have been running for decades are still as steady as when they were placed, funny isnt it?

[@DvDick]

VytautasLDK Quoting something without a link to the source isn't going to make the quote believable

[@casesmith1]

VytautasLDK right, what's your sources?

[@Nemesisrooster]

Casey Smith I'm in my 50's and can remember talk of 'peak oil' in the 70', 80's, 90's etc. A google search will show you that the first predictions started in the 1800's.

[@creevey82]

Notice how they were talking about actual and potential oil? I'd say what you were hearing about was actual oil. We progress technologically on a pretty consistent basis.

[@domenechuerta7209]

Is the increase in demand for oil accounted for the calculation of years left of it?

[@Gmanxxx1214]

What happens when something dies? It's corpse is consumed until only bones are left. So how do bones turn into oil? Please explain. I don't know where oil comes from but it sure isn't dead dinosaurs.

[@justwannabehappy6735]

Seriously?

[@reddoggtruthwarrior1325]

Watch Fletcher Prouty video on the origin of fossil fuels. 1992 interview Not made from fossil. No fossils have ever been found past 16,000 feet Oil is drilled much deeper

[@shubham-pawar]

What if we humans don't fully develop a new alternate fuel by the time these fossil fuel is finished, do we come to a stand still and enter dark ages?

[@SuperGoodison]

Shubham Pawar sucker

[@cs0345]

Well you wouldn't wake up one day then realize that all fossil fuels are gone. The prices would keep rising due to scarcity, forcing people to change their behavior.

[@kingpickle8569]

Shubham Pawar there are fully developed ideas. They just cost a shit ton that when people see the price tag, they say no right away and say BS about using these different ways.

[@souviksinha6325]

@@SuperGoodison irrelevant comment you fucking nonce

[@Major_Mason]

BP issued a statement back in 2008 that they will run out of oil in 2052. Idk about you, but when oil companies issue these, its time to give up gas before waiting out TOO long and caught in the biggest world disaster of all time :(

[@OptimusBananas]

say it with me everyone Nuclear Fusion and Hydrogen Fuel Cells.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

Say it with me: Fast breeder nuclear reactors.

[@arthur-keller]

But it is NOT a question of stock, it is a question of FLOW. And ERoEI. Will the industrial and financial system be able to provide societies with the constant flow of oil they need to function? Just-in-time? With liquid fuels (95% of our transports depend on) remaining in an operating range of price: neither too expensive (otherwise people can't buy) nor too cheap (otherwise the industry is no longer profitable)? THIS is how the "peak oil" question must be framed. And the climate issue comes on top of this one, of course.

[@alexemery3045]

We are electrons. We take the easiest path. Unless there’s an easier path than oil, we we’ll burn every last ounce of it before a change is made I believe. We’re water. We’re electrons. We are hard wired to take the path of least “resistance”. Good video sir. Thank you. ✌️✌️

[@albinpremvelayil]

Can’t imagine the day when u can’t hear the sound of roaring fossil fuel engines😢😢😢😢

[@caustichail0242]

Stfu I burn my plastic I hate the environment you are weak, you are a bleeder

[@albinpremvelayil]

@@caustichail0242 Says the little shit hiding behind a fake account!

[@brianalexander216]

Oil is earth's blood think about it

[@toraw4tv1]

Brian Lunagameni what’s ur point bill

[@yoshidoyoshatakeda6138]

shell kills all the others planet in the universe by drinking their blood and earth is the last one so we need to stop these oil vampires asap or we are fucked im not kidding at all that is the goal of iluminati reptilians

[@anthonyrymer4391]

FF7 all over again! If we don't stop Shinra from draining Earth's mako/lifestream we will have to face Omega Weapon!

[@LuchoCastle_11]

I am a vampire.

[@TheFi0r3]

Not even close. It is more like earth's armpit sweat.

[@happysamoan97]

As emerging economies develop, fossil fuel usage will skyrocket.

[@mudball47]

It is not fossil fuels. There are no fossils below 16,000 ft in the earth, but oil company's drill down 20 to 30,000 ft and find oil and gas.

[@keyboarding5593]

Will a non-rewnewable resource run out? HMMMMMMMMMM

[@randyhofer2523]

It is renewable,you guessed right,does not come from fossils at all

[@imteresa1646]

its the earths blood the earth is a living being with life

[@incognigo1670]

@@randyhofer2523 Yup Another lie from the illuminati

[@MadProductionsink]

Like we use heat and pressure to create diamonds, why not do the same for oil? Maybe it is to expensive

[@42luke93]

I wonder if the scientists could find a way to place desd things that deep and go back to see if it turned into oil.

[@tmastersat]

Rushia proved this all to he untrue. Look it up.....its called abiotic oil

[@sargestack5657]

I know there are temperature gages around the world monitoring temperature but in reality it's not quite accurate to really gage the real temperature as it fluctuates to much to be correct as the world's temperature changes virtually instant .the hysteria about us going to hell in a handcart is in 500 years we will still be here with a slight change

[@unacomn]

"It's been claimed" Setting fire to your tap water isn't a claim. It's like saying "it's been claimed shooting yourself in the foot causes a gunshot wound".

[@TheStigmacher]

It's link to fracking is the claim.

[@Elmithian]

Pretty believable claim considering this was not possible there until after the fracking started.

[@filip36365]

unacomn If they don't light water on fire it won't combust by itself. People just want us to live in the dark ages of horses and books

[@JohnnyKronaz]

Because water's never been contaminated before, right? So it MUST be the fracking!

[@Elmithian]

Johnny Kronaz The chemical mixture required to be able to set water aflame is quite limited mate. By the nature of elimination anyone with even the most basic knowledge of chemistry could narrow the source down substantially. Being able to set water on fire require very unique chemical combos to be the results of something other than oil. Filip Jakacki​ I am not sure what you are saying here. Water doesn't combust naturally when fire is applied to it. You need to separate the oxygen from the hydrogen atoms to be able to use them as burnable fuel. Plus there are plenty of other methods of acquiring energy nowadays than just oil and coals. Oh and during the dark ages (in Europe) about 80-95%of the population was illiterate so technically books were generally regarded as more of a luxury than not. Especially before the first proper printing tools emerged.

[@RR-wn8it]

believe in Elon Musk

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Nah, Elon Musk is a hoax invented by some KZbinr.

[@LuchoCastle_11]

Elon Musk for supreme leader of the world.

[@nickshaffer80]

i expect that we will [hopefully] look to more sustainable energy sources long before we run out of fossil fuels. either left, never to be used, or for some time far later

[@KCJbomberFTW]

That’s why I don’t understand when people think the price will keep going up it’s about to crash

[@Desertrose882]

Just like Saudi Prince now Saudi king once admitted - the world never lacks oil! If in doubt, just watch oil price ...

[@robertjohnsontaylor3187]

Fossil fuels are a misnomer, the earth through natural geological process keeps creating oil, and methane is also being produced via biological processes. So the answer is no we won’t run out.

[@conorfitzpatrickdesign9616]

Either way we should be heavily investing in Renewable energy now. Burning more = Disastrous rises in sea level leading to loss of land and extinction of wildlife such as polar bears who need the ice to hunt and have been losing weight steadily due to shorter winters. We must hold our governments to strict emission targets and therefore force there hand on renewable energy if the economy is to not be damaged.

[@producerevan88]

Conor Fitzpatrick Design all that went out the window here in the states when we elected trump...

[@conorfitzpatrickdesign9616]

+Stuff Done Right I can't believe that even pence is a worse option obviously being in the pocket of energy companies. Why else would a Politician be a climate change denier!

[@conorfitzpatrickdesign9616]

+Stuff Done Right we can't wait 4 years to change this. How can it be done?

[@VytautasLDK]

Ever heard of natural selection? Adapt or go extinct... And what those polar bears did to you? Humans are probably only animals that are concerned about survival of threatening predators...

[@conorfitzpatrickdesign9616]

+VytautasLDK Firstly, natural selection and adaptation are two different things. Currently polar bears are so desperate for food now ice is disappearing that many are supplementing their diet by hunting on treacherous cliffs because after winter they have not been able to eat enough to go into hibernation. Do you really think we should eradicate every animal that you would loose a fight with?

[@TheMilanMovies]

Electric cars will be almost everywhere in about 15 - 20 years if large car company's like BMW, Audi, Volkswagen and off course Tesla start making making more of them.

[@bersheck3076]

If they make the batteries in electric car replacable so you only have to wait 10 minutes at a gas station instead of hours then maybe.

[@AdamPurcell]

Replaceable car batteries are already a failed idea. They are not needed in the real world. People without an electric car tend not to understand that they don't need to visit somewhere every week or whatever to refuel an electric car. You plug it in at night and wake up in the morning to a full battery. It takes a few seconds. In those cases where you are traveling long distance then stopping for 30 minutes to rapid charge the car every three or four hours really isn't a big deal - in fact it might be said that you should be stopping that much just for your own comfort and safety. This does all assume a 250-300 mile car battery (that's rapidly becoming the norm in the new cars now) and a way to charge at home. Those without a driveway or garage are currently disadvantaged. That will almost certainly be solved in the next decade, with lampposts getting charge points added or whatever. It's going to be an interesting decade or so.

[@TheMilanMovies]

Adam Purcell Exactly, I dont get why so many people don't understand that you can charge the battery overnight. And stopping every 2-3 hours is important to stay awake and keep focused while driving.

[@gazs7237]

Milan Meiland electricity is not a power source, it is generated mostly by burning fossil fuels. Also you are forgetting how much oil goes into making a car. 7 barrels of oil in EVERY tire, all that plastic cannot be made without oil, the factories themselves use a metric shit ton of energy every day. not only that, all pesticides and fertilisers are made with oil and gas, so the workers in the factories (and most other humans) are going to starve as food production dwindles. i hate to be a party pooper, but we have built our ever growing population on a finite resource. when the price of oil becomes so high that it poses no finantial monetary gain.... people will start to die. look up a documentary called "collapse" by Michael Rupert. it is very informative and free to watch on youtube

[@TheMilanMovies]

Gaz S I definitely understand what you are saying but I think large power-plant company's must invest in different energy sources to produce electricity. For example, Elon Musk is doing a great job concealing solar panels as roof coverage. We need oil, I get that. But we would decrease the amount of oil we are using if there are more electric cars. If we want that to happen, car company's have to make electric driving attractive to everybody that owns a car. Tesla is making the Model 3, that's a start. But that is just one car from just one tech company. We can't get over the fact that we need plastics and such. But like I said, I really hope we all can decrease the amount of oil we use... And let's hope some large company reads this and can make this happen...

[@parthasarathyvenkatadri]

what i wanted to know was .. what is the richter scale of earth quakes that have been directly linked to fracking

[@ashzerodude]

If only there was some sort on energy beam or invisible force that existed...

[@MadProductionsink]

Wait, if diamonds are created when carbon is under extreme pressure and heat, and we can replicate that in a lab, and make man made diamonds, why can't we make oil in the lab if oils is created when dead animals are under extreme pressure and heat ?

[@rayp2112]

MadProductionsink I wonder the same thing but I think it is because the volume we would get would be miniscule in comparison to the required amount

[@MadProductionsink]

Didn't say it could be widespread, just to show it could be done :D

[@junoguten]

I would imagine we can, but that the pressures require more energy than the oil provides. If it's anywhere near the energy the oil provides though, or even just several times that instead of several orders of magnitude, I could definitely see the appeal of say using cheap fission / fusion power when that comes around to do it, to keep everyone from having to change type of car.

[@sb-nl6ge]

We CAN! We DO! Haven't you heard of synthetic oil? Mobil 1, Valvoline Full Synthetic? It's just not economical to burn it for fuel.

[@randyhofer2523]

We can

[@4.0.4]

You "climate scientists" have been wrong before, and won't gain my trust with silly jingles, soft voices and children's show animations. I want you to make a model that accurately predicts the future. In 10 years your models will still be wrong "but don't worry", you'll say, "because now they're correct".

[@randyhofer2523]

They lie a lot,my name us miss lie a lot har har

[@christophersolomon9533]

Energy storage is the main problem with renewable sources. Once we find some way to efficiently harness and store the energy from these sources, is when we can truly ditch fossil fuels. Global warming would still be an issue whether using fossil fuels or not.

[@SaturnMemories]

Shale oil was economically feasible for a while. In fact, it was so successful that the United States vaulted to the top spot on the list of world's largest oil producers in 2015. Of course, Saudi Arabia then flooded the market with cheap oil, which drove down prices to a point where many US shale companies couldn't turn a profit and were forced to close. That was surely the Saudis' intent, but it also ended up hurting them and other OPEC nations. Venezuela was hit the hardest. Their economy has been all but destroyed, and the government there may very well be toppled.

[@tomshortland2062]

What about all the land beyond the south pole admiral Byrd found?

[@PhillTheVwGuru]

phew, I'll still be able to drive standard for the remainder of my life. my life savings for my children will probably be waisted due to rising costs of fossil fuels but at least I can live a satisfying life

[@cpufreak101]

Speaking of which that your golf in your profile pic?

[@HereToComment24]

The future is green.

[@VytautasLDK]

Nop... It's bright red. Hotter climate will fasten ground erosion and dust storms will become more common very soon... In next 100 000 years...

[@Judgment89]

The future's bright, the future's orange.

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

Judgment89 Future's bright... and mushroom cloudy.

[@damaliamarsi2006]

Here are some interesting facts. The CO2 levels were once over 4000ppm. Currently they are at 400ppm which is .04% of the atmosphere. The biggest greenhouse gas is water vapor. It is 10x more potent and makes up far more of he atmosphere than co2. Co2 is actually used by plants and is not a pollutant., If we burned all the carbon based fuels on the planet, it would not push co2 much higher than 700ppm which would be totally fine. Most homes have co2 levels of higher than 1000ppm and it is getting really old hearing that C02 is this super dangerous thing that is going to warm the planet when in fact it is not and it has not. Also oil, coal and natural gas will NEVER run out. They will just get too expensive to extract and force us to move to other energy methods. Please quit parroting the Co2 is causing the doom of the earth trope /meme. It is getting old and most people are educated enough to know it is not true.

[@The88Cheat]

Sources for these claims?

[@JD1340]

I'm reminded of a quote from In the Heart of the Sea: "Instead of building fancy houses or buying fashionable clothes, Nantucket's Quakers reinvested their profits in the whale fishery. This seemingly frugal move actually reveals the whaling industry's immense greed. By reinvesting all of their money into their businesses, these men are forcing their operations to grow at an untenable rate. Ever heard of a financial bubble? Here's the thing about bubbles-no matter how big they get, they always pop."

[@Why_UMadBruh]

Oil or petroleum is, like corn a part of everything. There will never be a day where we'll have no need for it. Sure, a day will come soon that gasoline will no longer be primary fuel source. But, petroleum will still be the main ingredient in everything from plastics to asphalt.

[@Shailabhish]

There was a punctuation mistake, 2 rather near the end- That's optimistic*,* Greg*!*

[@SrchangwaytogoC]

I'm just glad I'll be dead before I have to buy one of those refrigerators with wheels, V8 petrol power!

[@1wasinAlpha]

WOW you must be really old to die of old age within a decade!!! Bon Voyage!!!

[@adorjanbalazs6751]

Srchangwaytogo C. I dislike you

[@F22C1]

Srchangwaytogo C. I'm glad I'll be long gone before shit starts hitting the fan. Gas powered cars make too many fun noises to get rid of.

[@SrchangwaytogoC]

I always considered bold to predict more than a year ahead, even tech giants tend to be wrong when doing so, BUT 10 years?? What are you talking about?? They have been saying electric cars were gonna take over since the first Prius and it never happened. I don't even think the future of cars is electric ones, may be Hydrogen. Batteries, as hard as Mr. Musk is trying, are expensive, heavy, takes forever to charge and deteriorates over time, plus they are not ecological at all if you take into consideration production, transportation and re-usability. They have been around for many decades (way before the Prius^^) and after so many money and interest invested they still suck. I bet petrol will still be available at stations 30 years from now. Don't buy the lies of the politicians they don't give two shits about the environment, they just seek control. Control they don't have over petrol and they do over the electric bill.

[@yuzeyang8847]

Srchangwaytogo C. finally, somebody who can realize the truth, gas car is organic compares to electric car

[@bhabtesikhun7694]

We must reduce our consumption... Touch on the real issue..

[@sargestack5657]

Oil companies have been saying this for years to keep the price high

[@VanlifewithAlan]

When I was at school, crude oil was due to run out in 2008. As it turns out, it was probably the 20 August 2071.

[@homm3bonedragon242]

Alan Heath that's because we're using more and more dangerous and damaging methods to get to the fuel

[@Zamolxes77]

I think those estimates are way to high. The critical piece of information that is missing and you only mentioned once: "If the rate of consumption stays THE SAME". And is not, in fact the consumption rate skyrocketed. If for example the consumption rate grows with 10% per year, that means in 10 years the consumption rate doubles, cutting those numbers in half. If it continues to grow for the next 10 years with the same rate of 10%, then it will double again, reducing the "it will last us 50 years" to "oops we run out of the stuff 5 years ago".

[@OverwelmingTriumphnt]

If compression, microorganisms and heat are all that is required, than we will always be able to make more oil.

[@kpdc1]

How do they work out where oil will be?

[@willk302982]

We can't quite oil cold Turkey, but larger cities could reduce the use by having cheaper alternative transportation. Like electronic buses and trains. Reduction is key and not elimination

[@Spicy007]

If you believe people need to leave fossil fuels and go for "clean" energy, but don't have a solor roof or something, well looks like your in the same boat

[@fobby_fob]

funny how he's gesturing at the subscription link below but smart t.v. won't display it

[@80pedacito]

It takes millions Years to créate fuel and it's a finite product .. So why is it cheapier than à bottle of wine, that takes only à few Years to make, ?

[@KyleNelson279]

theres so much oil just in the us West. there no even drilling it all. they slowed there drilling alot when the price per barrel fell. if the price per barrel goes up. then they will drill more. because they see more profit.

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Oil will run out at some point but it will be a gradual dwindling of resource..not like turning a tap off. As it gets scarcer... 50 years or so from now, obviously prices will rise and the economics of alternatives such as geothermal, ( as per in Iceland where they have free, green, renewable energy), wind, solar, tidal and of course nuclear will make a lot more sense.

[@Jojohumf]

According to what the media told me in 2012 we have until 2020. Sounds like some method to inflate prices wouldn't you agree?

[@dougtinsley1320]

FOSSIL FUELS....I laugh every time I hear that misnomer.

[@lukepilsbury3841]

In GCSE science your expected to know that nuclear fuel is a non-renewable energy source, however with how much radioactive material there is in other planets and asteroids could we have an infinite supply for the forceable future?

[@mohamedameri360]

I wish I wasn't born till 2090. Fuel will be considered a shame to humanity in multiple years and our grand grand sons will literally laugh then feel sorry for us.

[@georgeangles6542]

Fossil fuels will never run out.

[@jaggass]

Not as much since BP had an oil leak in 2010.

[@cynthiaerickson3646]

I live in a town in cascade mts.it is currently sitting on 600,000 tons of coal.do not think we will run out.in america we have enough natural fuels to substain us without foreign oil but yet powers that be will not allow it.

[@Songnguonhout]

When oil run out, "madman" movie lifestyle appear.

[@HenrikE81]

no different from now, consider how feminist are running this world now and is oppressing men.

[@jimmymax8014]

you mean mad max

[@DragonGaming02]

Yay Greg is back!

[@GregFoot]

Immortal Dragon hellooooo 👋

[@DragonGaming02]

We always miss you when you are not around! Earth Lab is never the same without you

[@iviskijwattanawong6373]

The price will just increase, until too expensive that it wouldn't worth buying.

[@chestermanifold9023]

Ivis Kijwattanawong basic consumerism, thank you for showing sanity

[@thomaskai7814]

You never said when we will run out! Come on! It is in the title!

[@andrepoiy1199]

I don't think it will ever run out because the very last barrel of oil will probably be worth like an infinite amount of money and whichever country that owns it will never use it...

[@gayleclute9901]

"Fossil fuels"....what a joke. These are natural layers of mineral, just like granite or limestone. Oil will run out, but not for several hundred years.

[@awfullygenericname6783]

Although pollution, habitat loss, murder of all Earth species but humans, etc is a serious problem and I do care about it. I’m just paranoid thinking about this happening in my lifetime. Most of humanity can’t live in a world without electricity.