[ExI] Malthus and Marx

[John Clark]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 2:29 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:


> * > That 4% nuclear power comes from about 450 nuclear power stations. For
> nuclear power to make a significant impact it will require building
> thousands of nuclear power stations. This will take many years and cost
> trillions of rapidly devaluing currency.*


Huh? If currency is rapidly devaluing then why is inflation today the
lowest it's been in the nation's entire history?

*> In the current environment it will take a huge change for this to become
> acceptable, if it is even possible. Let's hope for nuclear fusion, or some
> other innovative energy source to appear. *
>

Replacing fossil fuels by ANYTHING, including nuclear fusion as well as
fission, would be a HUGE change and require many trillions of dollars; but
then COVID19 bungling by the USA has undoubtedly already cost many
trillions of dollars.  A trillion here a trillion there, and pretty soon
you're talking about real money.

John K Clark
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20200718/7d028f90/attachment.htm>