“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
State of the Game
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I disagree.. if you are 20 years from a tipping point or 2000 years.. I opt for the 2000
it's always going to be true that personal transportation is more preferrable than not for individuals. And it's always going tobe true that personal transportation is not efficient for society.
We're a small population in a large area ...so it's taken us longer for the needs of the society to start outweighing those of the individual. Though, that's not all that drives the societal needs forward in this regard. The US gets much of it's financial GDP from being leaders in technology and IP. You can't do that by sitting back on old crap that the markets in the rest of the world (who do have that population pressure making this issues un-ignorable) leave you behind. So wanting to stay rich is motivating the US where societal pressure was not.
I do not foresee busses and trains in the US's future. But rather cars as a service. Cars will become too (they already are) expensive for most people to afford and so they'll be shared.. it's simple, inevitable and as much as someone may like driving or that privacy....just the way driving has to evolve. Only the rich will have personal cars ..just like only the rich have personal jets.
Your wind farms put out more energy than expected during the time leading up to the power outage. Your 100 year old tech gas dependent power plants that refused to winterize because updating for changing climates is expensive and doesn't exist in texas is why you had a power issue. That and the fact that you let corporations self regulate a public utility. Working out just as literally everyone else predicted given history being history and all that.
yea. Maybe by getting rid of the government that allowed your electric companies to skirt recommendations and then getting rid of the ceo's and boards on those companies and having them run by people who answer to the public and not share holders for things like safety and performance.
exactly - most are quite dumb, about 5% are clever enough to have a much better life than those 95% - and just about 5% of the 5% are actually smart. But the dumb 95% have no chance to understand them, they would have to believe, and that is why they deem science to be a kind of religion as well - they cannot reason about it, they have to believe. And they just won't want to believe into something, what is prone to change - science is falsifiable, whereas religion is not - and so there is more a tendency to religion than to science as well - which is then again really unfortunate, when mankind is confronted with a problem like we have it now - where science would be required, but isn't trusted.
Why should I care. In 20 years AT MOST my body will start to deteriorate rapidly.
You do you... just live in the knowledge of what you do doing what it does to those that are left
It's really ironic, speaking as somebody who actually does have a bit (but not a lot, I'm no expert) of knowledge on the subject matter. Nuclear energy is by far the safest, cleanest, most economical source we have right now. Not saying that we won't have even better options in the future, because I'm sure we will (fusion, anybody?), but right now we have nothing better.
Unfortunately, thanks to a rubbish fantasy movie made decades ago as well as the utterly predictable failure of "design by commitee" Soviet work back in the mid 80s, everybody thinks that nuclear energy will make us all glow in the dark. While gleefully boarding planes with much less scrupulous safety regulations (even though they are, quite rightfully so, quite extensive) than your average nuclear power plant.
It is to laugh. But nobody ever went broke underestimating the gullibility of humans in a crowd.
It might finally solve the Chinese communist problem. Wouldn't that be ironic?
Reading those wise words made me realise how wrong my attitude is.
Luckily I forgot about it in the next moment.
The only thing that belongs in tea is gin with ice and a slice of lemon.
And that is what most are like - selfish - why should they care and even less pay for it, if it doesn't benefit them now - this is exactly why we are doomed as a species.
this thread needs more cats...
Oh yes. I'm sure that the idiotic focus on wind farms had absolutely NOTHING to do with endless government subsidies for them, along with punitive regulations designed to make it ever more difficult to do things any other way.
But I can meet you halfway: How about we get government the everloving fark out of just about everything and let people just mind their own business as much as humanly possible?
I'll have mine without the tea please.
Thank you for your kind words, it may be the first time anyone ever claimed that my behaviour as "humanely".
Well, kind of.
To be fair, we are getting to a point (finally!!) where viable fusion reactors are looking like more than the pipe dream they were a few years ago. If we get that beuaty up and running viably, we can forget those monstrosity windfarms... and solar panel efficiency is going up and up - I think there was an Oxford? team that reckon they've got the efficiency up to about 47% now from memory
I watched Planet of the humans too.Oh yes. I'm sure that the idiotic focus on wind farms had absolutely NOTHING to do with endless government subsidies for them, along with punitive regulations designed to make it ever more difficult to do things any other way.
But I can meet you halfway: How about we get government the everloving fark out of just about everything and let people just mind their own business as much as humanly possible?
Edit: It's worth a watch...
Rum & tea is nice too, especially when you just entered indoors after a long exposure to cold weather.
Hear, hear! I never doubted we'd get there eventually, and I don't doubt it now. And then we'll truly have endless, clean energy. Well, as endless as entropy allows, but long enough that we won't have to fight about it anymore, anyway