You are a great writer. I have vision difficulties. I enjoy listening to essays as I read along. Please consider slowing down a bit as you speak, and articulating each word. It doesn't have to be the King's English, naturally, but there's a great deal of slurring between words that demands too much of the listener to discern, and in so doing, your content is lost. There's no need to rush.
1) Any reserve (however big) is useless if the energy needed to extract it is greater than the amount you 'dig out' energy wise for future use.
2) Modern Industrial society requires near-exponential levels of energy use to keep certain living patterns intact. Basically, the amount of decadence currently afoot will deplete whatever little *economical* reserves there are out there.
As for people not getting 'the exact date for peak oil' correct... that's their problem. Lots of people claim to have the ability to 'see the top of the stock market' & fail to do so. This does not then mean that said notion is false, it's more that the person was wrong
The shale gas was not economical till a geologist figured out how to get it. Well the pollution laws will be changed or ignored. Which is happening now. At present so called green energy is not economical without massive subsidies. Seems select entities get these subsidies. The concept for led lights came from a researcher who came up with the idea before the technology to creat it existed.
The powers that be want to stay in charge. They are losing power and getting desperate.
'Renewable' energy is too ineffective (by yield and other measures) to be a resolution to Modernity's current woes.
As for science & innovation:
One of the OGs of Health & Fitness said it best ages ago... 'No amount of Exercise can outrun bad nutrition.' The same applies here as well:
No amount of Science & Innovation will rescue Modern society from its Decadent, Overconsumptive lifestyle & tendencies. At this point, many of the more speculative Tech solutions are basically akin to playing the Lottery.
Even if A few of them hold some promise into the near future, until people change their lifestyles so that their consumption patterns are more in line with the world around them, Science & Innovation will be but a temporary reprieve.
You are a great writer. I have vision difficulties. I enjoy listening to essays as I read along. Please consider slowing down a bit as you speak, and articulating each word. It doesn't have to be the King's English, naturally, but there's a great deal of slurring between words that demands too much of the listener to discern, and in so doing, your content is lost. There's no need to rush.
Will keep that in mind! Thank You for the constructive feedback!
Yes, and you have a pleasant voice to listen to as well, so it will all be for the good.
There is plenty of coal in the US 500 yrs worth last I saw. I have been hearing about peak oil for 50 yrs yet more is found all the time.
Two points:
1) Any reserve (however big) is useless if the energy needed to extract it is greater than the amount you 'dig out' energy wise for future use.
2) Modern Industrial society requires near-exponential levels of energy use to keep certain living patterns intact. Basically, the amount of decadence currently afoot will deplete whatever little *economical* reserves there are out there.
As for people not getting 'the exact date for peak oil' correct... that's their problem. Lots of people claim to have the ability to 'see the top of the stock market' & fail to do so. This does not then mean that said notion is false, it's more that the person was wrong
The shale gas was not economical till a geologist figured out how to get it. Well the pollution laws will be changed or ignored. Which is happening now. At present so called green energy is not economical without massive subsidies. Seems select entities get these subsidies. The concept for led lights came from a researcher who came up with the idea before the technology to creat it existed.
The powers that be want to stay in charge. They are losing power and getting desperate.
Correct.
'Renewable' energy is too ineffective (by yield and other measures) to be a resolution to Modernity's current woes.
As for science & innovation:
One of the OGs of Health & Fitness said it best ages ago... 'No amount of Exercise can outrun bad nutrition.' The same applies here as well:
No amount of Science & Innovation will rescue Modern society from its Decadent, Overconsumptive lifestyle & tendencies. At this point, many of the more speculative Tech solutions are basically akin to playing the Lottery.
Even if A few of them hold some promise into the near future, until people change their lifestyles so that their consumption patterns are more in line with the world around them, Science & Innovation will be but a temporary reprieve.