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When will we run out of fossil fuels?
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Planet Earth Below the SurfaceAlain Prinzhofer is a geochemist at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (Paris geophysical institute - IPGP), and he wonders how long it will take for Humanity to exhaust the reserves that our planet has taken millions of years to build-up.
Where are our remaining oil, coal and natural gas stocks? Do researchers already have any idea on how to replace these fossil fuels when they become scarce?
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