Talk:IEA warns: bleak future for the World without more energy investment

This is likely linked to peak oil.
If you have not discovered any new oil, then investing money in hardware to extract or refine oil from the deposits that you have already discovered will give you little profit on investment. It will just deplete faster, leaving you without anything quicker. Like two children eating a candy bar, one from each end.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peak_of_World_Oil_Production_and_the_Road_to_the_Olduvai_Gorge

Indeed yes! I have added your links to the article. Thanks whoever? There are doubtless more reserves that are uneconomic at low o/g/c prices but which could be exploited whn prices rise again. But finite is the word.

I think IEA have much more than oil/gass/coal in mind - the recommendation in previous reports was to get going on nuclear - I don't have the references to hand at the moment. Fentonrobb 22:30, 11 November 2006 (UTC)