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peter lindsay

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What are we going to make stuff out of when we run out of oil?

I'm at my work station in an office. The only things on my desk I can see that don't use plastic are the paper clips. What is all this stuff going to look like when oil is too expensive to waste on day to day items. We might have to save the remnants of the oil supply for carbon fibre and nano-tube production. Or as a source of pharmaceutical precursers.

Topics: conservation global oil plastic pollution
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    Krisztián Pintér 200+

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    May 21 2012: not "when" but "if"

    and it can be coal, bio or carbon dioxide.
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      peter lindsay 30+

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      May 22 2012: The simplest BIO solution would be to use wood. It's already ploymerised. We may find ourselves sitting on wooden chairs with leather apholstery typing into our computers on a wooden keyboard.

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