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Originally Posted by roflwaffle
It's not faith, just basic logic. We must have a global AE system at some point because fossil fuels are finite.
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There's an alternative (pun!) to covering growing global energy needs: Reducing those needs. And I don't mean just increasing efficiency, which should be done anyway. Smaller energy demand = easier to produce/store with what we have at hand. Yes, it will probably mean that the economy will stop growing, or will even shrink, but must the economy always grow? Why? Is
that an axiom? Humans have had the
bigger, better, faster, more! philosophy since they left the African savannas, and that's what is behind many of today's problems - the need for even more of everything (money, power, people, energy, pollution, etc.).
My rant is getting OT, sorry.