Our love affair with oil, the most glorious and tragic story of our times, but how does it end? Michael Hodgkin looks at the science behind the story.
By Rich Bowden. First printed in The Tech Herald 30/7/09. Img left: CSIRO headquarters, Canberra, ACT. Credit: CSIRO Img right:Outcrop of komatiite lava, South Africa. Credit: CSIRO An Australian study has concluded that a “late veneer” of the Earth’s platinum came from extraterrestrial sources. Scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)...