[ExI] How the world collapses

[Tomaz Kristan]

spike:

> If trips take half again longer than they once did

Time is much more precious than oil.


On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:45 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:
> extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On Behalf Of *John Clark
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 17, 2014 10:12 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] How the world collapses
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> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>…  The solar panels on my roof don't seem very illusory.
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> >…But solar panels on the roof of my car are illusory because my car has
> 306 horsepower, one horsepower is equal to 746 watts so my car needs
> 228,276 watts.  On a bright day at noon solar cells produce about 10 watts
> per square foot, so my car would need 22,827 square feet of solar cells,
> that's not counting the additional air resistance caused by the 151x151
> foot square mounted on the car's roof and the "WIDE LOAD" banner I'd have
> to place on the back.. And I still couldn't get to work at night or on
> cloudy days.  John K Clark
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> Ja, your car can produce 306 peak horsepower, but its average usage is
> less than a tenth of that typically, and you can cut that in half if you
> allow half again more time to make the trip.  If trips take half again
> longer than they once did, we start thinking of ways to not go, or to
> combine trips, saving even more.
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> I have the notion that we will tear around like our asses are on fire so
> long as it is cheap to do it.  Then after it isn’t cheap anymore, we will
> stop.  Then we will have a whole new pile of problems.  Now we waste
> because we can.
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