[extropy-chat] Re: peak oil debate framed from a game theorystandpoint ?

[The Avantguardian]

--- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:

> My own vision of the next three to five decades does
> 
> not include starvation or overly dire consequences,
> but 
> it is slower, with less transportation of humans. 
> We
> compensate by smarter use of communications, more
> working at home, probably some downscaling in some
> areas, perhaps less meat eating for instance, fewer
> big entertainment events such as football games and
> New Years Eve bashes in Times Square, that kinda 
> stuff.  We will live.  

I don't know, Spike. My vision is pretty nice. Our
economy goes nuke/hydrogen. We build a bunch of really
enlightened nuclear power plants with multiply
redundant safety-systems to generate electricy and
hydrogen. We use electric and matrix
absorption-desorption hydrogen fuel cell cars to go as
fast as we do now and a lot quieter too for those who
live on busy streets. 

We use fission as a crutch till we get fusion in a
bottle. Then we have our own miniture suns to power
stuff. Its not unbelievable, just unpopular, because
people are afraid of the N word.

http://www.ans.org/pi/matters/hydrogen/points.html
 

 

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