Scientists have calculated that we keep consuming at the rate we are (and the rate keeps growing evenly with the growing population) we have 52 years left
Yes, actually considering also the âsolidâ Oil Resources that are in the Rocky mountains. There are a lot of places like that, that might also not be discovered yet :-)
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Sure, wind turbines as well. I didnât bother writing that⌠whatâs the problem?
That is pure speculation. Completely blind speculation by a guy who is just trying to make a video. What he explained just seemed⌠implausible. He got speeds wrong, ranges simplified and that kind of stuff. Not the quality I expect from Wendover Productions.
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The question is not how much oil we have left but how much of it we may still burn.
If we keep drilling for and burning fossile oil at the same rate right now it will very soon let the effects of it, specifically global warming exponentionally worsen. It is true that we might have decades of fossile fuels left over, but we canât ever burn that all if we would want to keep this planet an inhabitable home for many further generations.
The plane of the future in my subjective opinion is a zero-emission, perhaps solar-powered or at least âgreenâ energy loaded aircraft with about the capacity of a rather small long-haul airliner and the range of this new Boeing 797 concept.
By 2030 already, we will have about 1,000,000,000 more people living on earth than now and this leads me to being concerned more about the regular medium to short-haul travel than a couple transatlantic flights.
There will be a point when our usual short to medium-haul airliners like the 737 will not be capable of running the routes they fly anymore because of capacity issues. More and more people are living on earth and the percentage of people using air traffic as their mean of transport is increasing just as quick.
Airlines like Swiss, Austrian and British already use 777s and 767s for routes like Vienna - Frankfurt, Zurich - Vienna and London - Amsterdam. And that is only one of countless flights on these routes each day. If zero-emission aircraft donât become a reality, running larger capacity, fuel efficient planes a couple less times a day rather than more low-capacity aircraft will over a long course perhaps be the better solution for our planet, air congestion, those affected by aircraft noise and so on and so forth. It may make us dispense with comfort in terms of frequency of flights and travel times, but I donât think I have to elaborate that our earth is more valuable than arriving somewhere 1 hour earlier or later.
Actually âglobal warmingâ is actually getting better, are rate of consuming oils is far better than what it was in the 70sâ.
Yeah, no.
Global warming canât get better. Itâs happening and getting worse every day we burn something that creates greenhouse gases. Whereas our emission of greenhouse gases has decreased in a consequence of more environment awareness and green energy production becoming a bigger thing in most countries, the effects stay until we can keep the emissions at a constant rate, so the global temperatures donât further increase.
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Guys, letâs not go off topic about Global Warming, thanks :)
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