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>80-100M barrels/y, Per day... >we’re drinking from the basin about 1000x the rate that it replenishes Try half a million times faster.

• klabb3 4y ago
  > Per day... Oh shit. You’re totally right. > Try half a million times faster. Yep. At least it’s better to have a number than nothing, even if it’s +-1 OOM. It’s pretty wild to imagine using up 500k years of fuel production in only a single year. While googling around, found another interesting metric: ratio of proven reserves to production rate, ie how much longer can we sustain given current consumption and no new developments. That number has increased over the decades, and sits around ~50 years for both oil and nat gas and ~100+ years for coal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserves-to-production_ratio https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserves-to-production_ratio