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I have such high hopes for pervasive solar power to drive new markets. Fossil fuels are an increasingly ugly hole - they're becoming increasingly expensive and
by beat 11y ago
I have such high hopes for pervasive solar power to drive new markets. Fossil fuels are an increasingly ugly hole - they're becoming increasingly expensive and destructive to extract, and resource wars over energy extraction sites and transportation routes will become more and more violent and contentious.
Cheap clean power plus 3D printing allows for unique new markets to happen.
- arca_vorago 11y agoWe'd also have to address the corruption of the system, or else you wind up in place like here, where the electric company that the incumbent congressman got privatized refuses to buy solar at reasonable market rates while overcharging the public and various other shadyness. If we allow the international bankers to continue robbing us no one will be able to afford solar panels. Now they are prepping to take control of the water market as well.
- nostrademons 11y agoI think we will see widespread migration of people, driven by cheap solar energy, global warming, water shortages, self-driving transportation, 3D-printing, fast mass transit like the Hyperloop, and hopefully holographic-videoconference based telecommuting. When you no longer need to live close to work and you no longer need to be in a major population center to get a wide variety of consumer goods delivered to you, there's little reason to live in either cities or suburbs. People are free to form autonomous communities connected to the global economy by the Internet, and will likely do so in areas least impacted by global warming and water shortages.
- reality_czech 11y agoA comment combining solar energy, global warming, self-driving cars, 3-D printers, the Hyperloop, and telecommuting? That's it, we have reached peak HN for today. Thanks for playing guys.