Does the earth have an unlimited supply of non-renewable natural resources?
Well no, these “non-renewable” sources take millions of years to make, for example oil, and coal; these where made from the rotting (decomposing) parts of pants and animals and have been compressed to form these substances; these are then taken from the ground, to be used for heating power and fuel. When they run low, the prices go up, because there is not enough to meet demand. Some people have made suggestions to when are non-renewable sources will run out, however, some would argue that there could be more that we haven’t found yet. To answer your question the earth does not have an unlimited supply of non-renewable natural resources. They will run out, however, we rely on private transport so much as well as other forms of new technology that we are willing to dig and find more, regardless of the impact it will have on the earth. Also, because these take millions of years to make, it is not possible for the earth to “make more” in time for us. I studied geography for many years; I hope I made it simple and clear.
Are resources fixed or unlimited?
Some resources are effectively fixed, and some renewableBy effectively Fixed, we include:Oil (though there’s more if we spend more and dig deeper).Coal (takes a long time to replenish)manpower (there’s a finite amount of people on the earth, and it taken a generation to replace them)By renewable, I include:Wood (just plant trees)Sunlight (we get a Earth’s supply full continuously)Most food (can be planted or reared)Air (plants get the oxygen back)Water (cycles via clouds, rain and rivers).However you could say that any resource that isn’t fully utilised is unlimited. For example, there’s unlimited sea water, unlimited sunlight passing the earth which we could harness. It may be technically limited, but there’s so much that it satisfies all our uses and there’s till some spare.
Are there any unlimited resources?
No resource is truly unlimited. There are abundant resources, but even abundance is always relative to patterns and intensity of use. Take water for instance - the kind we can use for cooking and drinking. Until recently, water was thought to be available in rather unlimited amounts. But we have started to use water in agricultural irrigation of crops we feed to animals and grind up for fuel, in cooling of stupidly wasteful heat producing machines that we want to produce electricity rather than heat (atomic power plants need huge amounts of cooling water to dissipate unwanted heat) and on the other side, we are destroying the purity of water flowing under the ground, by high pressure geological injection of junk into the earth to liberate gas that we want for other wasteful heat-and-energy producing machines.With all those uses, clean water has become somewhat scarce, to the extent that some are talking about wars over water, where before, we had no such thoughts.So if anyone says there are unlimited resources, don't believe them. Every resource can be over-used and abused to the extent of eventually becoming scarce.An important factor that is counter-acting the limits and the over-use of physical resources is our inventiveness and creativity. I would not count that as a resource, but rather as a factor to preserve resources and allow us to live within our means and within the constraints that the environment may set for us.
Does the earth have unlimited resources?
In most respects, assuming recycling, yes.But the one main limiting resource is the ability of the planet to shed waste heat. Since all work and energy generation create waste heat, it’s absolutely necessary to get rid of it. So this limits both our ability to generate useful energy and then to use it productively.
Is gas a limited resource?
Yes, because it is a non-renewable resource. This is part of the reason why gas prices are increasing is because it is a non renewable resource that is limited. Other limited resources that are non-renewable are petrolium, diesel, and coal. Click on the wikipedia link below and you will see more non-renewable resources.
What would a world with unlimited resources look like?
Pretty much like our world.You can think of resources in two categories:Energy resourcesMaterial resourcesWe are living in a universe almost filled with Hydrogen.We just need to master the technology to maintain a stable fusion reactor (we already have almost all the science behind it). Just like existing cosmic factories, the stars.When we master that technology, we will have access to a world with unlimited energy and material resources.We can make as much energy as we want through fusion. And we can make all the heavier elements through fusion (just like stars, as you know all the chemical elements in our world and in our bodies was made in the stars and we are all indeed stardust).What we can do when we used all the hydrogen? We can make the lighter elements (like hydrogen) by breaking down the nuclei of heavier elements through nuclear fission. We may not be able to go back all the way to hydrogen, but we can go back to Helium for sure. As you know many heavy radioactive nuclei can decay to lighter nuclei emitting [math]\alpha[/math] particles, and as you know an [math]\alpha[/math] particle is the nucleus of the helium atom. So we can make helium again and we can breakdown helium atoms to make hydrogen.So we will have access to unlimited energy and material resources (assuming that our universe is infinite in size).Then, we will need an efficient way to carry this energy and material resources. Something like a wormhole would be perfect.Then we will just need to find planets with enough gravity to sustain an atmosphere with 1 atm pressure. then we can transfer the atmosphere we want there through the wormhole and then we can use our unlimited energy source and LEDs (as light source) to harvest plants and life...
Is there any kind of unlimited resource in the world?
It doesn't get any better than solar.The total solar energy absorbed by Earth's atmosphere, oceans and land masses is approximately 3,850,000 exajoules (EJ) per year.[10] In 2002, this was more energy in one hour than the world used in one year.Source Solar energy - WikipediaName almost any resource on the planet and it will have its source in solar.Oil and coal - are buried solar energy. Plant and animals lived because of solar. Died and turned into these, over time.Hydro power - solar energy cusses water evaporation. Allowing for the water to be lifted to fall and create kinetic energy.Nuclear and geothermal are energy sources not from the sun. But we could easily give those away if solar was harnessed more fully.
What would happen to the economy if natural resources were infinite?
In some ways, we act as if that were the case now.Taking the biggest question—oil vs the atmosphere.Oil—in the counterfactual case of an infinite supply, we still have the issue of how our infinite supply is distributed. With the current glut of oil as oil producing countries try to fight elasticity by producing more than the market needs, the economics of oil pricing and usage seems barely affected by predictions of future shortages. On this supply side, we act today about as we would if shortage was foreseen.Atmosphere—Oil converts to carbon dioxide when processed as fuel. Carbon dioxide changes the atmosphere is ways said to create climate change and global warming. Are we acting much differently? To some degree (no pun intended) yes but in the counterfactual case of an infinite supply of clean air the impetus to develop alternative energy sources would be lost. That would result in a tangled web of business failures as for example Tesla, Elon Musk, wind turbines, solar cells etc found their markets vanish.
What natural resources does Greece have?
Greece is one of the most wealthy regions on this planet, despite what is happening in the economy, the potential is practically unlimited. Greece has one of the best places in the world for tourism industry and a lot of cultural resources to back it up. But that is not all. Greece has a very rich soil, it generally not known but as a geology student I can tell you Greece has huge amounts of iron, aluminum,gold, silver, copper, magnesium, rare earth metals, uranium and oil, not to mention huge amounts of natural gas. Greece has a sun that shines most of the year and winds that blow most of the year almost everywhere and sea currents and with the geothermal activity being high makes greece the energy paradise for almost any kind of energy. Greece also controls a vital strategic area that bridges europe with asia and africa. Greece also bridges the Mediterranean with the russian eastern coastline, making greece a trading paradise from both sea and air and so close to the middle east. The greek soil is also of the most productive in the world and greek products are of the highest quality world wide. The reason why we are in such a mess is because all of these resources are untouched. Almost all energy is provided by coal plants and imported oil (since we don't use ours). Green power facilities are few and most are abandoned, there are no reactor (besides the huge supply of uranium. Trade has collapsed many years ago due to laws and taxes and most greek products barely even make it to the greek market, most rot in warehouses due to EU laws protecting foreign production. Laws protect local transport companies making transportation of greek products more expensive that transporting them from latin america (current situation). All these laws have crippled greek economy and for some reason nobody even tries to use the natural resources available. Only tourism is backed by the government and that only to the bare minimum...