Will we run out of fossil fuels?

[@HarvardOnline]

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[@eduardogarcia2480]

... 5° punto más importante: El petróleo es inagotable porque es de origen mineral no orgánico o fósil. Surge y está en las entrañas del planeta. No hay cambio climático, ni el petróleo se agota.

[@lucbos7516]

We will never run out of petrolium It is a minaral oil made by earth it self !

[@redhen2470]

I love how all the experts are fixated on energy. Only half of every barrel of oil is used for energy. The rest is used to make thousands of products that we depend on in our daily lives.

[@AaronRowland-y5w]

The oil cartel is drilling and extracting more oil than they can find oil is outdated technology

[@banyenkanta6231]

It's that we used so much oil for energy that the immense byproduct waste is so widely available and cheap human just find a way to use it instead of alternative. If we switch to another form of energy source, we are gonna use their byproduct waste on our daily lives

[@TheAutoChannel]

There's no such thing as "fossil fuels," it's a misnomer. We don't need petroleum oil for anything, ethanol and other alcohol can be used instead.

[@somerandomguy7458]

Because energy is one of the support systems of human civilization

[@AaronRowland-y5w]

@@somerandomguy7458 Yeah that rack of massive profits for a small group of people

[@PrayTellGaming]

So the answer is: let's keep digging and find out!

[@danielmaydana8169]

My kind of style

[@sceletox]

It's a replanishing resource. The only thing we are running short with is integrity, honesty and dignity

[@JesusProtects]

The guy in the video said three years ago that to fight climate change we must spread sulfuric acid in the atmosphere. He added that this method will kill approximately 10.000 people in the whole world and that they are planning on increasing the amount in the future. At that moment I remember the host of the tv show saying "so more people are going to die?" And the guy in the video said "correct" with a smile on his face.

[@kayleemarais5768]

petroleum, like coal and natural gas, is a nonrenewable source of energy. It took millions of years for it to form, and when it is extracted and consumed, there is no way for us to replace it. Oil supplies will run out. Eventually, the world will reach “peak oil,” or its highest production level.

[@kyucklebeans]

Yes it's amazing that I just recently found out about the true abiotic nature of oil, which can easily be proven from regenerating oil fields and synthetic oil production...is there literally any truth happening in mainstream science, media and academia in the West anymore? All it is anymore is slickly produced fear mongering that is typically the exact opposite of the truth.

[@kynchan3332]

Easy to access oil is becoming more difficult over time. Improvement in technology has still struggled to make most shale projects profitable with large cash injections from investors and government.

[@Encephalitisify]

You got that right. What we are seeing are engineers trying to keep their jobs by manufacturing ways to produce oil. When you have to start converting gas into hydrocarbons, I think that says just about all there is to the dwindling oil supply. They are just using chemistry to create oil from something else.

[@stayswervin554]

That’s why it’s not profitable the governments involved Everything the government touches becomes expensive

[@robbenvanpersie1562]

@@Encephalitisify what would happen if they run out of ways to produce oil. Aren't we dooomed?

[@SNEEDANDBREED]

No it aint buddy. Its all marketing.

[@dedosdigital]

There is no shortage of oil and gas whatsoever .

[@Red-bw1cu]

I thought oil is abiotic oil through serpentation also methane so abundant❤️

[@babaloo42]

If energy production can't keep up with demand AND at the same energy input, then the standard of living of the average person WILL drop. Keep your eyes open and watch it happen. Cheap money WILL help get 'difficult to get oil' out of the ground, but the cost of the extra energy input necessary to do it won't go away. It just expresses itself in the inflation of prices of ALL goods and services. So in the end, the scarcity of EASY energy Will be felt by the average person. They just won't realize the source of the pain. Rich people will be fine though.

[@babaloo42]

@K lake I'm concerned that it could be a manufactured crisis by global elites. People will be even more at the mercy of government if jobs dry up because cheap oil is gone(or we're told it's gone). A low energy future sure looks like less freedom for the rest of us, and turning it into a crisis will help the population go along with cut backs in their lifestyles. The Saudi's could make a bundle by pumping more but oddly they're not. Are they playing along with a globalist agenda, is my question.

[@johncarnes2688]

@klake3580 well alot of it has to do with govt regulation and not allowing updates of wells. The problem is govt interference. You don't need separate fuels for West cost East cost etc..

[@lucbos7516]

Not true We only use 15% of what the earth makes every year We will never run out of petrolium It is a minaral oil made by earth it self !

[@AlchymicusWizardikus]

As we're already seeing with redirect after redirect (covid, Ukraine, "incompetent leaders" etc.) to mask the true source of inflation which is dwindling cheap energy. The short term strategy of kicking the can down the road will eventually come to a head with currency collapse as energy becomes too expensive to cover accelerating debts, which are future claims on energy.

[@walkabout16]

Is the Earth truly running dry of oil's embrace? A struggle for resources, a global rat race, In the depths of our planet, where black gold does hide, The question persists, as we reach far and wide. Beneath the Earth's crust, where time takes its toll, Lies the treasure we seek, the source of our goal, But as centuries pass, and technology soars, The truth about oil, we can't just ignore. The thirst for this fuel has driven us far, From drilling in deserts to the depths of the tar, Yet the Earth, in its wisdom, has limits, we find, For oil is finite, not endless, we're inclined. Fracking and drilling, we push the Earth's core, For the fuel we rely on, forever craving more, But what of the consequences, the price that we pay, For the struggle for oil, day by day? Environmental costs, a planet in strife, From spills in the ocean to the loss of wildlife, The Earth bears the scars of our relentless quest, To harness the power that oil does manifest. And in the realm of geopolitics, we see, Nations in conflict over oil's decree, A struggle for power, for control of the flow, As the world's dependence on black gold does grow. But in the midst of this struggle, there's hope to be found, As we seek renewable energy, new paths on the ground, For the Earth, though it's weary, still has much to give, If we learn to protect, and respect how we live. So, is the Earth running out of oil, we may ask, It's a question that lingers, a formidable task, But the answer lies not in the depths of the ground, But in our choices and actions, where solutions are found.

[@daemoniumvenator4155]

I have a better question, are fossile fuels actually fossils? Or is it the earths blood, where magma and carbon are constantly compressed in a layer due to tempuratures, pressures, and the constant flow of tectonic plates... in a region that basicly allows the plates to slide smoothly, and one of the reasons we have more earth quakes is because we are removing this natural lubracant. When someone finds a pocket of oil on the surface, its only due to the fact that it slowly bubbled up to the surface, likely due to geographic qualities. Its natural, and stable, due to millions if not billions of years of geological tectonic flows, and magma flows. It has absolutly nothing to do with animal bones.

[@edwardanthony8929]

Excellent short video. Just going to give a presentation on the same subject, and this was extremely lucid.

[@adamselene5957]

You can NOT begin to talk about the origins of oil and its availability without FIRST talking about the fact that oil is NOT a FOSSIL FUEL. THAT has to be the initial conversation.

[@cowru2day]

not a fossil fuel..he is $ driven..oil is oil not a fossil fuel

[@kennethwright1254]

It's not "fossil".

[@misterguy9002]

Oil and Lithium need to learn to love each other because they would greatly benefit in helping each other in an ever expansive Earth. The problem, Corporations owning said energy sources. I want us American folk ( left or right) to at least, understand each other when it comes to energy production.

[@themicdfiles1865]

The only part of this perspective I disagree with is the use of the term "fossil Fuels." Oil is not derived from dinosaurs. I can prove this to anyone who would take the time to visit me in Wyoming. I can prove in real time how it is an impossibility that oil is actually a "fossil fuel." I think the terminology is possibly an argument of semantics as we have been inundated with this idea that our vehicles actually run on dino juice, however it's equally hilarious that we do not associate nearly every other item we use in our daily lives to this "phenomenon." Our iphones are not something we perceive as a product of dinosaurs, nor are our computers, shoes, cameras, speakers, appliances, trash cans, trash bags, food packaging, auto parts, musical instruments, paints and coatings, anything that comes in a spray or pump bottle, garden hoses, plumbing parts, etc. For the love of all that's good and reasonable, this planet demands nearly 100 million barrels a day! Were the dinosaurs living like the factory workers in China who assemble our iphones and ipads, jump out the window to free themselves through death, only to be caught by nets made with petroleum, then escorted back to their work station? In order for this "fossil fuel" hypothesis to be accurate, the conditions for those nasty reptiles might have made them so ill-tempered. A cow will consume 26 pounds of grass per day...now equate that ratio per pound to a brontosaurus which consumed 1150 lbs of plant matter daily...there is no possibilty that these creatures were piled upon each other so heavily as to leave oil 6,000 feet in the subterranean that would facilitate nearly 100 million barrels per day.

[@jamiehart6318]

Work on your concept of time.

[@jamiehart6318]

Also "fossil" refers to all living organisms including plants...

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

The idea that fossil in fossil fuels refers to dinosaurs is just because of marketing campaign by Sinclair oil. Fossil fuels just means fuel dug out of the ground instead of fuel made from crops or trees etc.

[@williamforsyth6667]

"Oil is not derived from dinosaurs." Only children think that oil comes from the dead body of dinosaurs. And yes, it is fossil and it is very limited.

[@kayleemarais5768]

The notion that petroleum or crude oil comes from dinosaurs is fiction. Surprised? Oil formed from the remains of marine plants and animals that lived millions of years ago, even before the dinosaurs. The tiny organisms fell to the bottom of the sea.

[@stevederp9801]

my personal view on this has always been that once it was realized the immense value that oil will have in regards to advanced polymers, 3d printing, carbon fiber and other breakthrough technologies, they didnt want to waste those resources on other market demands. the biggest example of this being jet fuel. if less oil is consumed over the next 30 years by pushing us to electric cars, that will mean a larger amount of reserves will be there for the future to continue to produce jet fuel. Basically its a very simple principle that because cars are going on the ground the heavy batteries dont matter as much. while in the air a petroleum based fuel will always be needed for its power to weight ratio. meaning that airplanes with electric motors and batteries will be possible, but theyll be slower because we cant produce high level thrust without chemical reactions from hydrocarbons. in a shorter term. rich people like private planes, so theyre going to make poor people switch to solar and electric cars so they can use all of the oil for their planes instead of wasting it on our cars. thats literally the main motivation for all of these polices. every wealthy and powerful person on this planet has a private jet, they fly in them daily and they are the most important part of their ability to control the world. they want to make sure theyll have ready access to that fuel for the next 200 years. so this is how theyre going to accomplish it.

[@allantulli5546]

You are wrong about it running out, it is generated by earths core not fossils.

[@jish55]

Probably the big problem is that this is a finite resource that takes millions of years to make with a multitude of other resources needed. Because of this, we then have to look at how much oil we're digging up which is far greater than what the earth will ever be able to replenish. This means we could very well see the end of oil as a useable resource within our own lifetime if we continue the path we're on, especially when all oil reserves we're able to access dry up.

[@AaronRowland-y5w]

You have to look at the reserves even if we have 40 years of oil left that would mean the last 10 years it would be devastating

[@winstonskafte5505]

Check out abiogenic oil theory or inorganic oil formation it makes a lot more sense then the petroleum from plankton notion we are taught in the west now and there is lots of it being created everyday .

[@lucbos7516]

We will never run out of petrolium It is a minaral oil made by earth it self !

[@dedosdigital]

Old wells filled again are a common phenomenon . There is not shortage . Nobody knows how the earth makes oil , but it does , and it is not from decaying fossil material .

[@lucbos7516]

@@dedosdigital Petroleum is a mineral fuel

[@MrThenry1988]

I have no troubles coming up with something else, but you can't make me miserable when all you have to do is get it to me for an affordable price.

[@josephcollins7393]

Oil is not a fossil fuel it’s replenishes itself faster than we use it

[@User24x]

Crude oil is a fossil fuel. It takes millions of years to make, not extract.

[@Hockey-ny7tp]

False, my family is in the oil industry. If it replenished so fast why are deep sea wells drying up? They even tested this theory huge wells that where pumped out 30+ years ago are still dry

[@josephcollins7393]

@@Hockey-ny7tp false

[@platonkarataev550]

Perpetual oil is conspiracy theory, please don't fall for it.

[@johncarnes2688]

@Hockey-ny7tp so called dried used up wells in Russia have been found refilled

[@skully_the_bandit6055]

is this college hardwarr im only in sekond grad help

[@wntiblog_]

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[@skully_the_bandit6055]

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[@wntiblog_]

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[@dunexapa1016]

When you get people asking the wrong, or *IRRELEVANT* questions you do not have to worry about the answers ...

[@TheSMEAC]

Why do you ignore abiotic fuel proofs?

[@emperorthylord]

hush hush this is harvard

[@stuarthirsch]

Why I favor hydrogen as a basic fuel. Hydrogen can be produced from any hydrocarbon, either fossil fuel or biorenewable. It can also be produced from any source of electricity, just add water and electrolysis it. This makes fuel substitution versatile,efficient, practical, and economical.

[@terang5189]

Not sure about the future if we could actually solve it but hydrogen is very hard to store since they leak pretty easily and keeping it liquid requires a lot of energy.

[@subthrufal4578]

Thank youso much

[@dedosdigital]

A / No we will not , because , there is no such thing as Fossil Fuel , no fossil ever having been found at 20,000 feet and deeper where oil is found . B / No we will not , because oil , wrongly named as fossil fuel is more abundant now than ever .

[@dedosdigital]

@Mr. M.O.G.O.M. Oil is also not a poison ; bacteria feed on it and it is part of natural biological chain . In any case there is plenty of it . One of the things we as a herd have heard is Nuclear Energy is Danger . But SMR small modular reactor such as on submarines , they are incredibly efficient , and one never hears of nuclear poisoning of submarine sailors .

[@lucbos7516]

We will never run out of petrolium It is a minaral oil made by earth it self !

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

Fossil fuel does not mean fuel made of fossils, it mean fuel dug out of the ground, as opposed to fuel made from crops or trees etc.

[@dedosdigital]

@@adrianthoroughgood1191 With all the nouns in the English language , the word Fossil has been chosen and is repeated . I expect you cannot provide an instance of the phrase Ground Fuels in use .

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

@@dedosdigital the word fossil originally meant dug out of the ground. The term fossil fuel was used for fuels dug up before dinosaurs were discovered. The link with dinosaurs was just a marketing campaign for Sinclair Oil. No scientist ever actually said fossil fuels were made of fossils. Most scientists believe that fossil fuels are most likely to be formed from ancient plant matter from around 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs existed. The plant matter converts first into kerogen then that converts into hydrocarbons. Shale oil deposits are not fully converted and still have kerogen mixed in with them. Sometimes fossilised plants have been found adjacent to these deposits. Since they date from 4x longer ago they are deeper than dinosaur fossils. Also plate tectonics causes some rock to get pushed lower under ground than it started out so sometimes things are found much deeper than otherwise expected. Sometimes sedimentary rock gets covered with lava which also makes it deeper. There is an alternative hypothesis that hydrocarbons were formed deeper in the earth without plants being involved. Only a minority of scientists think this. There are several arguments to support this idea but all of them can be explained by the usual plant based theory. There is no conclusive proof that the non plant theory is correct otherwise that would be the mainstream theory. It's possible, but it doesn't actually matter. Either way they are very slowly produced deep under ground. Then we find them and dig them up. The current reserves are higher today than in the past but not because more hydrocarbons have been formed or migrated. We have just got better at finding and extracting then. Reserves refers what is economical to extract so when the price is high those go up and can go back down if the price is lower. If we kept on extracting eventually all the easy to get stuff would run out and the greater difficulty would push the price up for the rest. That has already partially happened in the US whereby production went down until the techniques for shale oil extraction were developed. But again this doesn't actually matter because we have to leave most of it in the ground anyway to avoid overloading the atmosphere and oceans with even more CO2 than we have already.

[@ram0166]

Oil is not a fossil fuel

[@reginafelizardo987]

Google says oil is a fossil fuel, wouldn't be their first wrong.

[@ram0166]

@@reginafelizardo987 Rockefeller convinced everyone that it was a fossil fuel so people would believe it was something that could run out and thus be willing to pay more for it. Some scientists believe it’s generated by something that is going on in the inner parts of the earth. There are microbes in the ocean that feed on oil. More oil seeps into the oceans in a year from beneath the ocean floor than was dumped into the Gulf of Mexico by the BP oil platform accident. Also when I was a kid Saudi Arabia was projected to run out of oil around 2000. They still have the same ability to produce oil they had back then.

[@Red-bw1cu]

Ain't no fossil fuel come on now let's start with the olivine rock at the plates and move on from there❤️

[@beskararmor7966]

When I learned the size and abundance of coal sources across our planet I realized we will never run out of fossil fuels.

[@ThePikeywayne]

Slightly off subject but isn't David Keith the same guy that spoke about weather modification, saying that we should use aluminium oxide but we will be passing the problem to our grandchildren

[@R.A.M.A.]

2:18 the subtitles lol

[@geecee6320]

Oil isn't a 'fossil' fuel, its a mineral!!

[@awakenrise9571]

THEY ARE NOT FOSSILL FUELS- YOU HAVE BEEN LIED TO- PEACE

[@Encephalitisify]

Sure we got plenty of oil at 30,000 dollars a barrel. Plenty. We also got plenty of diamonds. Why not just make a huge oil squeezer. Just collect some dirt and squeeze the oil right out of there! Plenty I tell ya!

[@digger105337]

I think they're cooking it out to get the most yeild.

[@chrisconklin2981]

Just because you can, does not mean you should. That fossil fuels could be available for a long time into the future, begs the question of the damage that happens when those fuels release their CO2 into the atmosphere.

[@walkerpercy8702]

No and they aren't fossil fuels.

[@Nabraska49]

There is nothing that can compare to the incredible power of oil .. gas comes a distant 2nd and then coal .. and when oil starts to go there is no way in your wildest dreams that the other two can be mined and converted into the humongous current oil demand plus their current uses.. so Hubbert is correct I’m sorry to say because when oil goes which it is starting to go now so does our population level.

[@moose11vt]

The majority of the population doesn't realize the mess we're in. We're like trained monkeys that routinely "fill up" and purchase cheap plastics. Even worse, less oil means less food production. We've been set up for failure by generations before us.

[@menguardingtheirownwallets6791]

I wish this guy was correct, unfortunately, he is wrong. When shale oil production starts to run dry in 5 to 7 years, we will start to convert cola to liquid fuels, that will give us another 15 to 25 years of oil production (from coal), but even that won't last forever.

[@davidmacholl3110]

We must be running out because the govts are telling us to be better to the enviroment but they have military around the world which use large amounts of oil. Also they want us to transition to electric but electric still uses nuclear coal or other ways to provide energy which aren't clean for the enviroment. Its karma because we have been greedy and oil isn't renewable.

[@soaceba]

Oil is renewable its generated within the earth. Its like blood.

[@keithwebster6164]

Oil is not a fossil fuel. It’s a naturally occurring mineral.

[@antoniochiappetta4833]

How do you know this, serious question.

[@soaceba]

@@antoniochiappetta4833 because once you spend a few days researching it you find out. Alot of our lives are a lie to keep us in the dark and the illusion of scarcity.

[@ox-cetane4887]

Peak oil is BS

[@andrekerr3257]

Oil doesn't come from fossils

[@FANIWILLISGA]

Its not even made out of fossils or dead plants

[@digger105337]

Political considerations seam to be the biggest hinderance to both exploration,production and now the use of the resources itself. Misinformation on Co2 and Climate change are now the biggest hinderance for sure.

[@partymantis3421]

Well thats good & all, useful information that doesent actually answering the question. At the rate we are using it we will run out around 2060, We do have more efficient clean energy tech today like: thermal & hydro & solar etc, if we get some powerplants working by then we should be good by then

[@miramedicineway9672]

Oil is abiotic! No we will never run out of oil And its not FOSSIL!!!

[@bradb4740]

SMH.

[@66cont]

Only an idiot believes that a dinosaur turned into a barrel of oil.

[@markone8991]

No such thing as dinosaurs

[@soaceba]

@@markone8991 big lizards. Also there were big humans , plants and animals. We are like the housecat compared to a mountain lion.

[@Locn.dn95]

Thank you very much for the explaination!

[@skully_the_bandit6055]

your welcome

[@Ben-jq5oo]

As a non scientist I found this presentation very interesting. It was clear and easy to understand. Thankyou. 🇦🇺

[@SNEEDANDBREED]

Yet they lied to you and you swallowed it whole lol

[@migel3443]

No because fossil fuel is the 2º more abundance liquid on earth

[@martin68250]

Year by year increasing world demand for oil is left out of his equation......

[@mrniceguy4277]

Dang, I was hoping we would run out of fossil fuels so renewable alternatives become the norm... Poor earth :/

[@stanleyjobson1567]

We use so called fossil fuel to make so called renewable energy. Once you comprehend the amount of fuel it takes to produce solar wind ect they’re no longer renewable.

[@mrniceguy4277]

@@stanleyjobson1567 They are. But not instantly. It takes some years...

[@noname-bt9ky]

NUCLEAR!

[@newwaveinfantry8362]

I'm gonna go full futurist and say fusion once we mine the moon for Helium 3.

[@morteza1024]

Earth is fine. Some animals will go extinct but it's gonna recover after a couple million years. We are in trouble. Earth had more CO2 and no ice in poles with 8 degree warmer temperature in the past so Earth will be fine but we won't.

[@wandameadows5736]

Imagine going to Harvard & being taught LIES to repeat while thinking your actually getting a fact based education.

[@Thoughtpologetics]

🤦🏻Harvard what are you doing… the answer is yes, dude talked about tar sands as if they are endless… we know how much there is, he talked about power plants using different fuels, all those fossil fuels run out… wow… I have no idea how “Harvard” missed the mark lime this At the very end is all that matters we got about 100-200 years and this is accounting for every single fossil fuel

[@Thoughtpologetics]

@josemercado3063 ya, we running out, and will run out, we should get off fossil fuels now

[@kenwood4764]

NEVER! We are a carbon hydrogen planet. It you want the best data read Thomas Gold the Deep Hot Biosphere. That's for asking the great question. Kaw🎉

[@funnelnutz3227]

Yes we will run out but not in our lifetime or our children's lifetime

[@rileypetrando]

Here’s the thing though why should we run out all oil wasn’t produced at the exact same time so oil should be produced all the time as it ages into becoming oil

[@sneakyquick]

I think oil is like timber, a renewable resource that replenishes itself. I also think it doesnt take nearly as long as we are led to believe.

[@Hendrikhendrik-om5ys]

Could the reason why the inner core is growing be that it gets more space to grow, because humans have been pumping oil and Gas in millions and millions of cubic meters up from the subsoil now for almost 200 years. Since the year 1846 and the earth is warming up from within and the ocean is warming up because of just this? when oil and gas are removed by humans, when it happens the world inner core has room to grow more, and the world's oceans get warmer.