pstarr wrote:"we're rapidly depleting a one-time energy windfall accumulated over 500 million years."
HOLY BEJEEZUS! WHAT TO DO? Starve, you need to start a web site to alert everybody so they can crap their pants also!
The problem with fossil fuels, I'm becoming convinced, is more than just carbon pricing, but the lack of replacement pricing. The cost of coal, oil, and gas is based on extraction, and excludes not only the CO2 impacts, but the fact that we're rapidly depleting a one-time energy windfall accumulated over 500 million years. At the rate of millions of years of accrual per present year.
Factoring in the cost of our best fossil fuel alternatives seems the only sane approach. And yes, that would result in tremendously higher prices for energy and everything made available by energy. Which is precisely the point. We live at a time where everything is phenomenally less expensive than at any time in human history (or prehistory), on the basis of costs -- that is, investments of present resources to obtain future ones.
Waking up to and recovering from this temporary anomaly will be nothing short of catastrophic.
Cog wrote:There are top men working on this.
Cog wrote:There are top men working on this.
SeaGypsy wrote:Intelligence & delusion are far from mutually exclusive. Some people think Stephen Hawking is utterly brilliant, but to me he sounds like a total whacker. Elon Musk is nutso fantasist too, Steve Jobs an utter narcissist. Our society is reaping the rewards of 30 odd years of post modernism, we have lost the ability to generally reason together, our heroes can mostly barely string 3 sentences together, all are utterly specialized- implying some form of social retardation to start with.
pstarr wrote:Will it be nanosupercapacitors? Will it be Unobtainium? The SuperDumperCollider? Whole brain emulation (WBE) or mind uploading?
"It's now possible to take CO2 out of the atmosphere, and use it as a feed stock, with hydrogen, to produce net zero emission fuels."
The benefit of those synthesized fuels, Corless told AFP, is they can be tailor-made for use in existing systems, from petrol pumps to automobiles and airplanes.
"You don't have to re-tool the $30 trillion in (global) infrastructure now used to deliver fossil fuels," Corless said.
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