[Novalug] OT: energy options (was Re: Trying to be less obnoxious)
Greg Bledsoe
greg@bledsoehome.net
Fri Feb 7 11:00:00 EST 2014
Your desire to wipe out swaths of humanity based on what "might" happen
strikes me as, to put it mildly, insane.
Thanks and have a nice day.
Greg
-- If you are afraid to speak out and criticize the powers that be
You are already a slave.
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:48 AM, pereira <ninorpereira@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/07/2014 10:41 AM, Greg Bledsoe wrote:
>
> John Holdren, Obama's former science czar, had some ideas. Assume you
> are familiar with/share them.
>
> Not specifically.
>
>
> Pretty scary. They involve things like forced abortions, world wide
> tyranny, mass but secret pregnancy vaccinations like WHO has been caught
> distributing in third world countries except distributed in the food and
> water supply, that sort of thing.
>
> The saddest part is, new technology and discoveries will make all this
> thought obsolete.
>
> That's questionable. I wish I could have the same confidence in technology
> that oozes out of
> such a statement. Don't get me wrong: technology is wonderful in many
> ways, but it also
> brings with it problems (like, too many people now; had we remained
> hunters and gatherers
> we wouldn't be in our particular predicament (it would be much worse, to
> be sure, but different).
>
> Personally I hope people who think like this never get the power to
> implement these sorts of mad schemes.
>
> You are right: such schemes are best implemented after everyone, or at
> least a large majority,
> concurs that something along these lines is needed toward of even worse
> disasters.
>
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> -- If you are afraid to speak out and criticize the powers that be
>
> You are already a slave.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:31 AM, pereira <ninorpereira@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 02/07/2014 10:28 AM, Greg Bledsoe wrote:
>>
>> So how do you propose "adapting" the size of earth's population?
>>
>> Good question, with a really long answer that I won't get into right now
>> (but will at some time if you let me know you are really interested).
>>
>> Flippant reaction: "make war, don't make love".
>>
>> Nino
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>> -- If you are afraid to speak out and criticize the powers that be
>>
>> You are already a slave.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:25 AM, pereira <ninorpereira@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Many of my colleagues believe in thermonuclear fusion as the ultimate
>>> power source.
>>> I no longer do, so I got out of it. IMHO the only way to deal with the
>>> energy problem
>>> in the long run (let me define: 1000 to 10,000 years, which I consider
>>> to be just
>>> about the time that homo sapiens has been more or less visible on earth)
>>> are
>>> all the forms of solar energy (hydro, wind, biomass etc. included), and
>>> then adapting
>>> the size of the human population to these ("renewable") resources.
>>>
>>> Besides enough energy we also need enough water and room to breathe,
>>> space
>>> for the animals (including worms and such). Then, we have maybe
>>> 1,000,000,000
>>> years to go before the expanding sun swallows us all.
>>>
>>> Oh well, I won't be there at that time.
>>>
>>> Nino
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/07/2014 09:25 AM, Ed James wrote:
>>>
>>> I hear ya. I believe the military, long ago, nixed Thorium reactors
>>> for Uranium to harvest weapons material. I doubt that will change.
>>>
>>> Personally, I'd prefer a "Manhattan Project" for fusion, rather than
>>> fission, reactor technology. I worked for the Plasma Physics group doing
>>> my undergrad (and brief grad) Physics stints at UMD, and really enjoyed the
>>> research. But...long way to go and all that.
>>>
>>> Ed James
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Derek LaHousse <dlahouss@mtu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm a fan of LFTR, meself. I'll just bury it in the backyard under a
>>>> foot of concrete and power my subdivision..
>>>>
>>>
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