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* REQUIRES TIME-MACHINE STUPIDLY GOES FORWARD IN TIME FOR 2018 TECHNOLOGY INSTEAD OF 2025...OR 2050 * CANADIAN ENERGY SEARCH TEAM OF THE FUTURE NEVER COMES B

* REQUIRES TIME-MACHINE STUPIDLY GOES FORWARD IN TIME FOR 2018 TECHNOLOGY INSTEAD OF 2025...OR 2050 * CANADIAN ENERGY SEARCH TEAM OF THE FUTURE NEVER COMES BACK BECAUSE FUTURE IS FULL OF SEX ROBOTS

pdfernhout 8y ago
Yeah, a time machine -- or reading any of the publications the Rocky Mountain Institute has been putting out since the 1970s (e.g. Brittle Power) that show, when accounting for externalities, renewables and energy efficiency have been cheaper than fossil fuels and nuclear since the 1970s. Renewables and energy efficiency should have won in the marketplace for decades. Why didn't they? it is because of an tilted playing field where people don't pay the full cost (including risk) for fossil fuels and nuclear at the gasoline pump or on their electric bill -- but instead they pay it in higher health care costs, taxes for the military, or government-absorbed risk like for nuclear meltdowns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Institute "The Lovinses described the "hard energy path" as involving inefficient liquid-fuel automotive transport, as well as giant centralized electricity-generating facilities, often burning fossil fuels such as coal or petroleum, or harnessing a fission reaction, greatly complicated by electricity wastage and loss. The "soft energy path" which they wholly preferred involves efficient use of energy, diversity of energy production methods (and matched in scale and quality to end uses), and special reliance on "soft technologies" (alternative technology) such as solar, wind, biofuels, and geothermal. According to the Institute, large-scale electricity production facilities had an important place, but it was a place that they were already filling in the middle 1970s; in general, more would not be needed. In a 1989 speech, Amory Lovins introduced the related concept of Negawatt power, in which the creation of a market for trading increased efficiency could supply additional electrical energy to consumers without increasing generation capacity—such as building more power plants."

* REQUIRES TIME-MACHINE STUPIDLY GOES FORWARD IN TIME FOR 2018 TECHNOLOGY INSTEAD OF 2025...OR 2050 * CANADIAN ENERGY SEARCH TEAM OF THE FUTURE NEVER COMES BACK BECAUSE FUTURE IS FULL OF SEX ROBOTS

pdfernhout 8y ago

Yeah, a time machine -- or reading any of the publications the Rocky Mountain Institute has been putting out since the 1970s (e.g. Brittle Power) that show, when accounting for externalities, renewables and energy efficiency have been cheaper than fossil fuels and nuclear since the 1970s. Renewables and energy efficiency should have won in the marketplace for decades. Why didn't they? it is because of an tilted playing field where people don't pay the full cost (including risk) for fossil fuels and nuclear at the gasoline pump or on their electric bill -- but instead they pay it in higher health care costs, taxes for the military, or government-absorbed risk like for nuclear meltdowns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Institute "The Lovinses described the "hard energy path" as involving inefficient liquid-fuel automotive transport, as well as giant centralized electricity-generating facilities, often burning fossil fuels such as coal or petroleum, or harnessing a fission reaction, greatly complicated by electricity wastage and loss. The "soft energy path" which they wholly preferred involves efficient use of energy, diversity of energy production methods (and matched in scale and quality to end uses), and special reliance on "soft technologies" (alternative technology) such as solar, wind, biofuels, and geothermal. According to the Institute, large-scale electricity production facilities had an important place, but it was a place that they were already filling in the middle 1970s; in general, more would not be needed. In a 1989 speech, Amory Lovins introduced the related concept of Negawatt power, in which the creation of a market for trading increased efficiency could supply additional electrical energy to consumers without increasing generation capacity—such as building more power plants."