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It's a little early to claim that data is more renewable than oil. Oil has been extracted vigorously for 150 years, with only moderate increases in difficulty.
by tlb 8y ago
It's a little early to claim that data is more renewable than oil. Oil has been extracted vigorously for 150 years, with only moderate increases in difficulty. How can we predict the economics of extracting data 150 years from now?
- paulryanrogers 8y agoThey may have meant renewable in the sense that it is produced without requiring the consumption of a finite resource. Oil extraction is much faster then the rate at which it was generated, over millions of years.