A question about air travel

in the event of the planet's oil resources running out. Havent really thought about this, the question has just come into my head: but when the oil runs out how will folks get about?

I enjoy para gliding so if i could i would use this to move arround. A bit far to do UK - Thailand in but you never know.

Barges as far as the Oriental and rickshaws from there.

Sailing ships. Worked before, will work again.

[thrillbill]

...by the time it gets that severe, aliens from outspace will (by then) take pity on our primitiveness (and stupidity) and share their knowledge on an alternative fuel...

Barges as far as the Oriental and rickshaws from there.

And what are the barges supposed to run on, pray tell?

oil produces not just gasoline but everything from soap to plastics, I'm sure there will be an alternative. But bees who produce honey are apparently in short supply due to some kind of virus killing or interrupting the lives of bees. Apparently, they are not "working" and just leaving their nests and the poor ole Queen Bee is being killed off. If this continues at the rate it does, the whole world will dire, we rely on bees to pollinate the crops, if that doesn't happen then we are in trouble.

[catawampuscat]

Blimps... :cat:

Blimps... :cat:

What does homintern have to do with it?

[Marsilius]

Barges as far as the Oriental and rickshaws from there.

And what are the barges supposed to run on, pray tell?

Barges are traditionally towed by horses or other beasts of burden - hence the term "tow path" for the track running alongside a canal.

"Someone" whispered in GB's ear that the solution to it all is just around the corner.

[Aunty]

Blimps... :cat:

What does homintern have to do with it?

Well we are discussing jumbos! :cheers:

We would still get around, but probably be a hell of a lot thinner!

Barges as far as the Oriental and rickshaws from there.

And what are the barges supposed to run on, pray tell?

Peddling and oaring volunteer muscle marys will be picked up in Singapore. The SM volunteer crew will provide power whipped up through the canal.

[Shuee]

the new fleets of the airbus a380 have been sponsored to be built already with the insite of that particular airline taking fuel reserves into account, for the predicted future

if that fails then i know that you can run cars from some yeist rich alcohols, & even cooking oil old & recycled. failing that i'm sure automic fusion, where you get 100% efficiency from the reaction, will have been refined by then so they can just change the planes fuel converters - well it sounds easy in theory hahahaha

[Michael]

Virgin have already begun experimenting with bio fuels.
BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7261214.stm)

Putting a little extra thought into it overnight, the problem will surely surface way before the oil runs out completely. As supplies start to deplete the price of fuel will become so prohibitive as to make flying economically unsustainable for the average punter. Have we perhaps been living in the golden age of travel? Instead of the human race reaching out to the stars and discovering new worlds, could it be that travel to the other side of this world will revert to become the arduous journey of bygone times?