'Megascale' structures that humans could one day build

Re:'Megascale' structures that humans could one day build by maxerickson on Thursday January 14, 2021 @09:46PM (#25786344)

Peak oil.

It'll obviously happen at some point, but they were very wrong about the timing.

There's probably lots of examples on the optimistic side too. AI probably counts there.

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Re:'Megascale' structures that humans could one day build by bryanlarsen on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:21PM (#25786605)

Peak oil will never happen. The Alberta and Venezuela tar sands contain hundreds of years of supply, yet in a decade or so it'll be cheaper to make oil using cheap renewable energy than it will be to pull it out of the tar sands.

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Re:'Megascale' structures that humans could one day build by dumbfoundded on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:07AM (#25788230)

So then we've already peaked? I thought peak oil referred to related to the rate of extraction, not the reserve levels.

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Re:'Megascale' structures that humans could one day build by kodoque2 on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:23AM (#25788331)

How much barrel of oil do we need to get one barrel of oil from tar sands?

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