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Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly by bawolff on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @05:09PM (#23980730)
> There's plenty of oil, gas, and coal out there still.

I was under the impression we only had ~100 years worth of oil left, just that its not talked about because climate is more pressing and normal ecconomic pressures will fix the problem if we run out of supply. Is that wrong?

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Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly by entropicdrifter on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @05:20PM (#23980821)
It's likely that we have more than that now thanks to newer methods of oil extraction like fracking. That said, hopefully within my lifetime the primary use of oil will be for plastics rather than power.
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Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly by RandallBrown on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @05:30PM (#23980909)
I think typically those predictions mean there's ~100 years of oil that's extractable with current prices and technologies, not that there won't be any oil left at all in 100 years.
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