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Physics Lectures for the General MIT Community: c Out of Gas - The End of the Age of Oil
David Goodstein
Thu Jan 12, 02-03:30pm, 4-370
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
The world will start to run out of cheap, conventionally-produced oil much sooner than most people expect, possibly within this decade. This talk will discuss the reasoning that leads to that conclusion and the likely consequences if it is correct. It may be possible, with considerable difficulty, to substitute other fossil fuels for the missing oil, but if we do that we may do irreparable damage to Earth's climate. And even then we would start to run out of all fossil fuels, including coal, probably within this century. Can civilization survive if that happens? We will consider the possibilities.
Contact: Paul Rivenberg, NW16-284, 253-8101, rivenberg@psfc.mit.edu
Sponsor: Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Cosponsor: Physics
Latest update: 19-Nov-2005
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