Re:The Saudis Are Lying About Their Oil Production?
by dboreham on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @12:53AM
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The earth's crust is 8% Aluminum.
Re:The Saudis Are Lying About Their Oil Production?
by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @12:55AM
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But not all of it is equally easy to extract. In any case, yeah, “peak aluminum” is far more distant than peak oil.
Re:The Saudis Are Lying About Their Oil Production?
by credit_guy on Thursday September 26, 2019 @12:16AM
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Here’s Hubert’s peak oil projection and the actual oil production in the US.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicting_the_timing_of_pea...
Now there are multiple schools of thought, but one of them holds that when reality diverges so much from theory as in this plot, it’s time to question the theory.
No, it's not.
> All resources on Earth are finite. What’s special about oil?
Nothing; it would be special if it was an extractable resource and didn't have a peak where utility vs. cost of extraction meant that extraction declined from the peak.
> Why not peak aluminum or peak concrete or peak cobalt?
Aluminum and Cobalt, as extractable resources, will probably also have extraction peaks.