Re: The Mother of All Energy Balances


Bret Cahill wrote:
> To be sure we CAN adjust somewhat painlessly using 80% less oil.
>
> Moreover, I have no reason to doubt the conventional fusion people that
> fusion is less than a decade off.
>
> Also the info age makes just about everything, politics as well as
> energy, much easier.
>
> Finally I have a personal economic conflict of interest in that I think
> I can beat the 60% efficiency of the GE I series industrial gas
> turbine, the most efficient engine on earth, with something much
> smaller than 100 tons.
>
> Nevertheless the big time geo wars have already begun. Permanent
> losses to quality of life are also at stake.
>
> Someone needs to be taking this situation a little more adult and
> seriously. We are still doing this willy nilly, like those guys with
> handle bar mustaches from a century ago.
>
> It's really quaint but you wouldn't buy software from a guy with handle
> bar mustaches, would you?
>
> Then why are we doing energy policy that way?
>
>
> Bret Cahill

I observe a lot of lamentation about human nature above. We have had
ecological destruction and mindless wars before "peak oil". In fact,
the rapid progress in Solar and Wind Energy technologies holds out hope
that we can drastically reduce and in fact reverse past destruction of
the earth resulting from human economic activity.

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