There is plenty of oil left

05Apr07

I found this graph (pdf) from an interesting lecture from a UC Berkeley physics professor who had some good data on the availability of oil and the feasibility of several types of ‘alternate’ energy sources, mostly in the context of automobiles.

Basically this shows that we’re not going to “run out of oil” as is so often stated, but that we’re just running out of cheap oil. He also talked a lot about why we’re so dependent on oil and why other forms of energy e.g. hydrogen and solar aren’t going to replace gasoline, ever. He believes that all cars in the future will be hybrids.

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