Silver lining to running out of oil

[nelmo]

I'm not looking forward to a time when we run out of oil but one bright side will be places like Saudi Arabia can revert to the dusty, war-torn shitholes that the rest of the Middle East is.

I've just seen some cricket highlights - England playing Pakistan in Abu Dhabi and I can't see a single spectator in the grandstands. At the last Bahrain F1 GP, there were 15,000 spectators ALL weekend !! Over 100,000 on race day alone at Silverstone, for comparison. And the less said about the Qatar World Cup, the better.

I don't blame the players for taking the cash (I would) but once the oil (and thus the money) runs out, they'll be lucky to get the World Tiddlywinks League turning up....
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[DrDonnyBrago]

They'll be pressing the west for oil producer "pensions" long before the oil dries up. I have few doubts that they'll still be extremely wealthy long after I'm dead.

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By the time the oil has ran out, they'll all have migrated anyway.

The current wave of immigration is just Islamifying their future countries of residence in preparation for them. Who do you think is funding all these Mosque's?
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[angryjonny]

[Polarbear]

[Rogerborg]

[Im-a-Ridah]

The oil won't run out as such, it will just get progressively more expensive. It's actually gotten cheaper recently as the US has been fracking and has vast reserves. There's also said to be loads under the pole. It would be a good thing for companies to produce things that lasted longer and were more recyclable, rather than using cheap oil as an excuse to make things that break after a few years.

[Itchy]

The water crisis will get them first.

Thing is though they have ONE trick left. That is to turn all the useless non arable land into solar power plants gigantic ones.

China is doing this and installs 6-14GW every 3-4 months with the Gobi. You can see them on flights that go across northern China.

They can then electrolyse water for hydrogen and then bind the hydrogen into a liquid fuel form (seen various articles on this) and business as usual except instead of LNG tankers it'll be some sort of hydrogen based liquid fuel you can pump much like petrol.
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[Rogerborg]

Great plan if a PV system is actually net energy positive. I'm going to laugh if it isn't, very briefly, in the cold and dark.
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