Thought Provoking

[hurleyjd]

I am no greenie but we might stop and think about what if.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/when-will-the-worlds-natural-resources-really-run-out/ss-BBTX0WT?ocid=spartandhp

 

[ez14.]

I didn't read much of it. But where do they think the water is going???

 

[greybeard]

I didn't read much of it. But where do they think the water is going???

"You been freeze dried or doing hard time?"
Ain't you heard?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWwtKoIQgLI

The movie "Cowboys and Aliens' is actually a documentary....
:lol2:

 

[TexasBred]

To date we have mostly accessed those natural resources that are easily accessed and very plentiful. Will eventually get harder and we won't be able to be as selective but will be a long time before it's impossible.

 

[Jogeephus]

I'm of the belief a big azz asteroid is going to nail us before we run out of oil and coal. If I'm wrong, I think we will make some major breakthroughs in alternative energy sources in the future and think a carbon tax is silly and akin to giving a heroin addict free dope in hopes it will rehabilitate them. Besides, AOC claims we will all be dead in 12 years anyhow so why does it matter?

 

[Bright Raven]

Conservation of matter:

The law of conservation of mass or principle of mass conservation states that for any system closed to all transfers of matter and energy, the mass of the system must remain constant over time, as system's mass cannot change, so quantity cannot be added nor removed. Hence, the quantity of mass is conserved over time. 

Matter (elements, compounds, etc) cannot be destroyed. The form can change but the element is still here. By the time that "natural resources" are used up, mankind will fabricate compounds to meet his needs. When it comes to energy, nothing can rival solar. Just a matter of time.

 

[hurleyjd]

here is article on the decline of gas producing wells. May be so and maybe not as someone in high places would say. I will leave to the experts on this board to explain a ruminate on it.

https://geology.com/royalty/production-decline.shtml

 

[jltrent]

I am worried about us destroying each other first. Countries puts a big chunk of their resources, money etc. at trying to find ways to kill each other. One of these days they will come up with something that will wipe out the humans welter it be by accident or intentionally.

 

[Bright Raven]

I am worried about us destroying each other first. Countries puts a big chunk of their resources, money etc. at trying to find ways to kill each other. One of these days they will come up with something that will wipe out the humans welter it be by accident or intentionally.

The Universe has no Conscience!

 

[bball]

I am worried about us destroying each other first. Countries puts a big chunk of their resources, money etc. at trying to find ways to kill each other. One of these days they will come up with something that will wipe out the humans welter it be by accident or intentionally.

I am inclined to agree. For as advanced a species as we are, we are certainly capable of great destruction. Mr. Smith has quite an interesting, if not accurate, assessment of our species.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L5foZIKuEWQ

 

[Caustic Burno]

This theory has been with us for over fifty years it has some viability IMO.

https://enviroliteracy.org/energy/fossil-fuels/abiotic-theory/

 

[Jogeephus]

This theory has been with us for over fifty years it has some viability IMO.

https://enviroliteracy.org/energy/fossil-fuels/abiotic-theory/

I listened to a scientist lecture on this very thing. She made a good argument.

The original link that mentioned using up water reminded me of a fella I knew who believed in this and invested his life's savings in a waterless car wash business which gave him the sole and unrestricted right to sell this product in nearly a quarter of the state. To hear him tell it, he was going to make a fortune so much so that he offered me a piece of the business but I declined because the thought of paying taxes on that much income was unnerving. He got around paying the taxes after the bank took his car and his home.

 

[Caustic Burno]

This theory has been with us for over fifty years it has some viability IMO.

https://enviroliteracy.org/energy/fossil-fuels/abiotic-theory/

I listened to a scientist lecture on this very thing. She made a good argument.

The original link that mentioned using up water reminded me of a fella I knew who believed in this and invested his life's savings in a waterless car wash business which gave him the sole and unrestricted right to sell this product in nearly a quarter of the state. To hear him tell it, he was going to make a fortune so much so that he offered me a piece of the business but I declined because the thought of paying taxes on that much income was unnerving. He got around paying the taxes after the bank took his car and his home.

Old lump of coal is a diamond with the right pressure.
It’s almost unbelievable you could have enough biomass compacted so quickly with enough pressure to form amounts of petroleum extracted.

 

[Jogeephus]

What I took away from her lecture is that oil and coal is something that is made every day from a continuous process. Seemed the real problem would be if our removals are faster than the earth's ability to create it. I don't know the answer to this but I suspect we have ample time to find viable alternatives rather than inefficient knee jerk government subsidized alternatives.

 

[greybeard]

I am inclined to agree. For as advanced a species as we are, we are certainly capable of great destruction. Mr. Smith has quite an interesting, if not accurate, assessment of our species.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L5foZIKuEWQ

Oh..the irony..
I didn't open the video, but I assume it's from The Matrix. Mr. Smith is of course, a fictional character and fails to realize humans are a resource as well as a user of resources. It's not surprising tho, (script writing notwithstanding) that Smitty came to his conclusion seeing as he was the cat daddy/el supremeo of all narcissists.
It's not lost either, that the Machines used humans as their one and only energy resource .... humans, to the Machines, were nothing more than power generators.

Without human intervention, 01 (Zero One) has grown to tremendous size. It runs on a combination of nuclear fusion and neuro-electric energy generated by the billions of humans in its power plants, which are connected to the Matrix.

https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Power_plant

The Matrix existed simply to keep humans from destroying themselves, so that the Machines could use them for the Machines' own survival. The base sole purpose of the Machines was simply to survive no matter what.

 

[bball]

I am inclined to agree. For as advanced a species as we are, we are certainly capable of great destruction. Mr. Smith has quite an interesting, if not accurate, assessment of our species.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L5foZIKuEWQ

Oh..the irony..
I didn't open the video, but I assume it's from The Matrix. Mr. Smith is of course, a fictional character and fails to realize humans are a resource as well as a user of resources. It's not surprising tho, (script writing notwithstanding) that Smitty came to his conclusion seeing as he was the cat daddy/el supremeo of all narcissists.
It's not lost either, that the Machines used humans as their one and only energy resource .... humans, to the Machines, were nothing more than power generators.

Without human intervention, 01 (Zero One) has grown to tremendous size. It runs on a combination of nuclear fusion and neuro-electric energy generated by the billions of humans in its power plants, which are connected to the Matrix.

https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Power_plant

The Matrix existed simply to keep humans from destroying themselves, so that the Machines could use them for the Machines' own survival. The base sole purpose of the Machines was simply to survive no matter what.

Incorrect. Go back and read your own post. It seems Mr. SMITH, fictional as he is, completely appreciated the resource that humans provided. He even goes on to explain how, initially, the matrix was utopiotic, but humans would not accept it. It wasnt realistic enough without some negative aspects. Good needs bad, sweet needs sour, justice needs mercy, etc. Points of reference for definition.
I suppose conquering an entire species of people and enslaving them for your own energy supply may prompt a sense of egotism and self admiration. I don't know personally as I have never engaged in that activity nor had any thoughts to do such. I do understand we humans have a propensity for violence towards one another. Being a veteran, I am sure you know that all to well, as I do.

 

[greybeard]

I suppose conquering an entire species of people and enslaving them for your own energy supply may prompt a sense of egotism and self admiration. I don't know personally as I have never engaged in that activity nor had any thoughts to do such.
I do understand we humans have a propensity for violence towards one another. Being a veteran, I am sure you know that all to well, as I do.

I think (firmly believe) we have more than just a propensity for violence toward one another, and it has zero to do with me being a veteran. There's way more violence in our modern world, meted out one against the other, every day in the civilian world than there is in combat and history has shown it has been this way for thousands of years.