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Originally Posted by GGG
We have something like 200 years of coal available and people don't really look for it anymore. We have 200 years of uranium available not including what can be recycled. 50 years of oil.
So really we have at least 100 years of currently found energy reserves before really considering the renewables we need to transition to.
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And at the speed of renewables transition, I think it's quite likely they'll be able to "bend the curve" to be more economic than fossil fuels before then. The real trick will be storage, of course, and you might see some peaking natural gas power plants past most other fossil fuel use.
I believe it was a former opec boss who said, "The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stone, and the iron age didn't end because we ran out of iron." The point being of course that fossil fuels will be naturally replaced by something more efficient over time. I suspect it would be wise for governments to let the market figure it out, but that's only my political opinion.