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Most nonbiological resources don't get any replacement at all.

• pfdietz 4y ago
  But they have enormous stockpiles, compared to the biological resources. The upper 1 kilometer of the Earth's continental crust contains about 10^19 tonnes of cobalt. There is no similar stockpile of whales.
• fwungy 4y ago
  The abiotic oil theory says that oil is produced as an intrinsic result of deep earth geothermal processes. Peak oil theory may have been right about the peak, but wrong about the steepness of the right tail. Russia has had success with drilling for oil based on the abiotic theory.
  • pfdietz 4y ago
    The abiotic theory of oil is also bullshit. I wonder why people keep talking about it.
    • fwungy 4y ago
      Russia has been using it successfully in their fields to predict deposits.