Since Right Wingers have been telling me directly or by their silence that they aren’t going to do “my work for me” I must say go back and read the article more carefully. Do your own work.
But here is the information from the article. You can more readily find it from this.
Assuming that the United States continues to use about 24 tcf per annum, then, only an 11-year supply of natural gas is certain. The other 89 years’ worth has not yet been shown to exist or to be recoverable. [ i.e. a “mythical number”]
Even that comparably modest estimate of 11 years’ supply may be optimistic. Those 273 tcf are located in reserves that are undrilled, but are adjacent to drilled tracts where gas has been produced. Due to large lateral differences in the geology of shale plays, production can vary considerably from adjacent wells.
Oh, you are digging deep on that retort. I suggest you stop before you get any deeper.
The article itself provided its own math in the article based on collected data they referenced regarding their “89 years” calculation.
It is in there.
You are right, you never brought up natural gas. I did. In a very well crafted segue that kept with the energy theme but also allowed for a natural gas fracking to oil fracking prediction comparison.
A more astute reader would have recognized what I did right away.
