slimmouse wrote:Brief interluede;
Meanwhile in a thousand facilities desperately lacking finance the world over some truly dedicated people are trying to find ways around this via exotic technology. Many have gotten very close. Some have probably actually gotten there. But most of them kind are dead, or get involved in long lawsuits, or have patents waiting for approval forever and a day, or have their patents surpressed in the interests of ....wait for it "National security"...
Dont worry folks, weve got the likes of Wintler assuring us that ALL these instances and researchers are either con artists or indulging in a pile of duff pipedreaming because the big energy giants cant and wouldnt apparently surpress such stuff.
Carry on...........
You keep bang this drum about exotic technology. What do you mean exactly?
Is it tech that produces no effective pollution?
Is it tech that is cheap, easily manufactured and distributed?
Does it require any expensive, hard to find/mine/extract metals, plastics or other composite materials? (and are any of these likely to be sourced from areas of conflict - such as where precious and rare metals are extracted (Congo region for example) or like the middle east?)
Is this technology some kind of miracle battery/energy cell for home/local use?
Is it big project, clean fusion type national/global use?
Is it some kind of 'energy from thin air' tech, or does it require a fuel of some description?
Now: Let's assume it is best case scenario; Clean, cheap, infinite fuel, local use. Powers houses and cars - no more hydrocarbons whatsoever.
Corporations are going to be even more efficient, able to reach further and further and, able to fulfill 'their customers desires' even better than before. The same psychopathic drive for profit and power will be there.
Military is gona be doing shit but off the leash. MIC r&d guys with unlimited energy point sources? *shudders*
Other stuff is going to need the same resources, such as is being aggressively mined in Africa and Asia. These are finite and massively destructive to the indigenous communities. And also to the Chinese factory workers. Meat will still be ground to a pulp by industry and the military.
And lastly, population and food required to sustain it. Well? It's been growing at an alarming rate with the hydrocarbon bonanza: it will be out of control with unlimited energy. We would turn into a metaphorical hoard of locusts and pick the planet clean. Maybe we get to colonize other planets as part of the gig. That'd be a very noble aim for us. Learning our lessons from Africa, Asia and the Americas and teaching the poor lifeforms on other planets these lessons at the point of a ray gun?
Have I gone to far or was I starting, pie in the sky , trying to rationalize your well thought out and realistic drum beat?
The problem is within us, collectively. We are each complicit in our own way (some more than others) in the destructive economic structures and planet affecting behaviors of our species. The first step to change comes from within, but without collective effort we are individually doomed to what fate brings for us.
