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To: Eric K. who wrote (112930)10/9/2000 8:56:08 PM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Re: something like 100-150 years of not-difficult-to-extract oil left in the ground

I don't have it around anymore, but a few years ago I put together a simple Excel spreadsheet to estimate how long it would take, at present growth rates of fossil fuel use, to use up the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.

Depending on the growth rate used, the period varied between 150 and 450 years.

The thing is, it'll probably get kind of annoying long before the very last free oxygen molecule is is consumed - so how much of a cut in the percentage of oxygen you're willing to accept in your atmosphere may put a limit on fossil use even if we don't run out of fossil fuel.

Dan
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