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That’s not a strategy. It’s an observation. It’s an important observation! Now what do we do about it? Discounting carbon heavy industries is one move. How mu
by brians 7y ago
That’s not a strategy. It’s an observation. It’s an important observation!
Now what do we do about it? Discounting carbon heavy industries is one move. How much? When will those heavy costs hit?
My own preference is to start coffee farming in North America, to offset the coming end of global shipping. What year will that be, so I can have my crop ready?
- davedx 7y agoMy strategy is investing in renewable energy shares. So far I am long Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, and Tesla. It’s early to tell if this is a viable long term strategy as carbon assets become stranded etc.
- ghostbrainalpha 7y agoThere will be small market for your backyard craft coffee...but Coffee requires a very particular environment to grow, so you are going to spend more energy adapting your local environment to produce coffee that is expended by the shipping of coffee. What I think will happen is someone will make a completely artificial "coffee flavor" beverage, with added caffeine that the mass market prefers to coffee and doesn't require importing coffee beans.
- stallmanite 7y agoRe: artificial coffee substitutes are you talking about something like Postum? I’m trying to imagine a palatable take on modern energy drinks adapted to be served hot but my imagination is failing me. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postum
- pochamago 7y agoI genuinely cannot imagine a world where global shipping were to end. At absolute worst, we could return to sailing to accomplish it.
- dwaltrip 7y agoI did a bit of research and hydrogen fuel cells look to be the most promising alternative to diesel powered shipping. Batteries are a no go, they would be need to be 10x more energy dense than they are today (which is very unlikely to happen anytime soon).