Woebot
Well-known member
Dunno if anyone stumbled across these threads I started:
on Wind Farms
http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=2236&highlight=wind+farms
and
on Nuclear Power
http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=492&highlight=nuclear
I've gotten very pre-occupied with this phantom of Energy Depletion. Like many people I have these visions of a breakdown in society at the twin hands of it and Global Warming.
It isnt so much the panic scenario (the UK can power itself with its own resources for something like 45 minutes!) but the unfolding misery of gradually increasing energy costs. Life as we knew it before becoming slowly impractical, descending gradually into desperation.
When I'm feeling positive about it (as is typical when you take these things on at a personal level, when my freelance work stretches months ahead of me and i've paid all the bills - not all that an uncommon scenario!) i'll reason that Wind and Wave Power and Clean Nuclear Energy will pick up the slack and the world will be a better place. This is, admittedly, a very rosy prognosis.
I wonder if our current era will become known as "The Oil Age" one of fantastically gross expenditure and waste. Whether people will look back and (rightly) see all our wars and political conflicts as oil-driven.
On the other hand I wonder contrarily whether the Energy Crisis will look rather like old Nuclear fears of the 50s-80s (CND-When the wind blows-Cuban Missle Crisis) in other words with their share of real disaster (Three Mile Island-Chernobyl) but largely phantasmal and feeding into scoiety's paranoias?
on Wind Farms
http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=2236&highlight=wind+farms
and
on Nuclear Power
http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=492&highlight=nuclear
I've gotten very pre-occupied with this phantom of Energy Depletion. Like many people I have these visions of a breakdown in society at the twin hands of it and Global Warming.
It isnt so much the panic scenario (the UK can power itself with its own resources for something like 45 minutes!) but the unfolding misery of gradually increasing energy costs. Life as we knew it before becoming slowly impractical, descending gradually into desperation.
When I'm feeling positive about it (as is typical when you take these things on at a personal level, when my freelance work stretches months ahead of me and i've paid all the bills - not all that an uncommon scenario!) i'll reason that Wind and Wave Power and Clean Nuclear Energy will pick up the slack and the world will be a better place. This is, admittedly, a very rosy prognosis.
I wonder if our current era will become known as "The Oil Age" one of fantastically gross expenditure and waste. Whether people will look back and (rightly) see all our wars and political conflicts as oil-driven.
On the other hand I wonder contrarily whether the Energy Crisis will look rather like old Nuclear fears of the 50s-80s (CND-When the wind blows-Cuban Missle Crisis) in other words with their share of real disaster (Three Mile Island-Chernobyl) but largely phantasmal and feeding into scoiety's paranoias?