[ExI] "Toward a Type 1 civilization" by Michael Shermer

[Tomaz Kristan]

Sun's burning is not sustainable way to live by. Instead of a few billion
years of warming up we could have at lest many times more by decomposing it
to smaller furnaces.

- Thomas
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Damien Sullivan <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu>
wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:53:51AM +0200, Tomaz Kristan wrote:
>
> >    > Humans will need to make the transition from nonrenewable fossil
> >    fuels as the primary source of our energy to renewable energy sources
>
> >    What a crap, man! There is NOTHING like "renewable sources". All
> >    energy sources are not "renewable". Entropy always goes up, no matter
> >    what you do. Use is wisely as you can. Cut the crap.
>
> Yet there are many energy resources, commonly called renewable, which
> will be sustainable for billions of years, unlike the centuries or
> decades of fossil fuel use.  And I'm sure you knew that.
>
> -xx- Damien X-)
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