Well, so much for scientific research in Antarctica…it’s about to be a war zone.
Who put the barrels there!!!
Death to Oil
I fear it’s rather death for, or death by oil for us.
We should make a song, death…death to the O.I.L… Same tune as Bob Vylan did in Glastonbury.
Add this to the list of “problems the wealthy make sure we don’t solve.”
Death
toby Oilfixed
FFS lets move on from trying to suck every last drop of oil out of the earth’s crust.
The year is 2070. Common daily temps are between 35-45°C. Only 200k humans survive globally, and barely.
They still use fossil fuels to generate electricity…
daily temps are between 35-45°C
Not in Russia. :D
They will one day.
Maybe, but look at that territory, it’s perfectly positioned to unlock more agriculutural land northward as the world further south burns. I bet the Russian ruling class is eagerly awaiting this scenario that would put them towards the top of the pile in world powers. They may end up in a position to pick and choose from waves of immigrants.
Problem is that it isn’t that simple. The general fact we do know is that the atmosphere will be more energetic and, on average, the globe will be hotter. The more energetic facet means more weather activity and changes to various currents. So local weather may be more impacted by a change in wind current temperature wise. The change in storm activity may be the bigger concern rather than temperatures. We don’t know how much viable agriculture will be possible or exactly where it will be. Also there’s the question of soil quality. It’s a dangerous gambit to assume a straightforward “Lots of snowy land now means lots of agriculture in a warmed globe”.
A truce has been reached between the forces of AE-X11 Musk and the virtual consciousness of Jeff Bezos as they vow to unite against the tribal council of the former Russian Federation to secure the remaining oil reserves in the desert plains of the Antarctic continent
Human population
nowbeing only 0.00025% of its peak, their greenhouse gas emissions are now insignificant, so, the planet isnowfinally recovering, fast.Edit : obviously I’m not a writer.
If there’s only 200K people left, everything is going to be fine … for them.
The robots are relying on fossil fuel too
Doesn’t need a lot of oil to upkeep a population of 200k humans though.
200K?
Hey everyone, check it out, this guy still has some optimism left!
A larger nation with a massive population like India or China will unilaterally employ some kind of geoengineering project long before it gets to that level of lost profits.
Likely it will be some kind of massively risky atmospheric particle seeding to reflect some percentage of sunlight, which could have unknown consequences down the line.
I have seen the Animatrix. We all know where this is going.
What’s oil?
Just in time for it to not matter as oil demand declines and renewable energy takes over.
I mean, it’s arguably always better to not entirely deplete something, even if you don’t “need” it.
That being said… Ughhhh
Not if the regressives have anything to say about it.
Oh for fucks sake.
Hmm sounds like a good reason to have the ice all melt and speed up us dependency on it - USA 2026 probably
Ffs, just fuck off, Russia.
Hate to break it to you but Russia isn’t the only member of the petroleum industry.
Yeah, but this is about Russia, Mr. Whatabout.
Because no one else would touch those reserves except Russia? It is moot anyway because it is in the UK claimed region. Sorry it isn’t as simple as you’d like it to be.
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/no-the-russians-havent-found-oil-reserves-in-antarctica
Fuck the West…
You happy now?
But Russia is the one doing oil prospecting while masking it as seismic research which obviously skirts the intent of the Antarctic Treaty, which other countries actually do honor
Reported discovery: A Russian company, Rosio Oil Exploration, has claimed to have found large oil deposits in Antarctica.
Location: The alleged discovery is reported to be in a region of Antarctica claimed by the UK.
So the UK would be the one extracting it. It may be complete bullshit too.
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/no-the-russians-havent-found-oil-reserves-in-antarctica
So, they were looking
It’s almost poetic. The oil got there because there was once vegetation on Antarctica, that decayed over the eons. Now the thirst for oil will lead to heating the planet enough to melt the ice again.
And then an immediate ice age!
Kind of like a runaway diesel.
To be fair, the antarctic continent wasn’t always at earth’s southern pole, it was at a lower lattitude, so implying the overall earth temperature is why it wasn’t covered in ice is less significant.
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/
There are 1.65 trillion barrels of proven oil reserves in the world as of 2016.
So another extra 30% or so.
Yeah, we already have more than enough to ruin the world.
Solar is moving so fast, no way this will be economically feasible to draw up. Leave it in the ground!!
Just for context, the US uses around 7 billion barrels per year. Can keep the SUVs going for the better part of a century.
Assholes can roll coal for a century.
What’s weird is that Gale Banks, one of the godfathers of turbocharging and a huge name in diesel performance, is adamant that rolling coal is stupid. Especially in modern engines with lightening fast fuel control systems… more forgivable in older diesels with mechanical injection systems. But he says it’s money and horsepower literally blowing out your exhaust, being a internal combustion engine enthusiast myself I don’t understand wanting to leave performance blowing away in the wind; that’s YOUR unburnt diesel blowing away! In THIS economy!
No matter the advances, the Otto cycle will always be 25% efficient, at most.
Last I heard modern gas engines have reached a smidge over 30% thermal efficiency because the pure Otto cycle hasn’t been used in decades. Mazda(?) recently announced an engine over 40% efficiency using an Atkinson design I think. Superchargers and more Turbochargers boost efficiency more by recycling waste energy.
But I’m not sure any of that matters because diesels aren’t Otto Cycle.
diesels aren’t Otto Cycle.
Are they not four-stroke?
All Otto cycle are 4-stroke but not all 4-stroke are Otto cycle.
Such as Wankels, ok, just replace “Otto cycle” with 4-stroke in my original comment.
