I'll answer Mike's questions a bit out of sequence, so it'll flow better.
Darth Wong wrote:You're talking about predictions made so long ago that they hadn't discovered the neutron yet and they thought the female orgasm was some kind of hysterical madness.
In December 1973, the Minister for Minerals and Energy of Australia, Reginald F. Connor declared that Australia's known recoverable resources of crude oil would run out in eight years.
As we all know, that time frame is about the same time of the documentary films which revolved around the life of Main Force Patrol officer Max Rockatansky.
You never tire of this "people have made mistakes in the past, therefore all science today is crap" style of argument, do you?
I've been looking at the old newspapers and Peak Oil arguments seem to reoccur every twenty or thirty years; and they're usually based around the statment that "we have X barrels of proveable reserves, but we are consuming them at Y rate; therefore we have Z years left.".
Anyway, posting this kind of stuff in the random peak oil threads that pop up from time to time would IMHO, be trolling, sos I decided to simply post them here since they
are history.
And it's funny how the same things keep cropping up; for example, Oil Shale just won't die; and in the article I found containing the 1973 statement by the Aussie Minister, there was talk about using cut down forests to produce ethanol as a motor fuel.
And this thread is worth it anyway, for the spinoff alone - the female orgasm is a sinful sinful thing.
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