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To run an embargos, you need a decently sized army, to have a decently sized army you need energy, and on soy-boys tears ain't as effective the other side good
by alacombe 7y ago
To run an embargos, you need a decently sized army, to have a decently sized army you need energy, and on soy-boys tears ain't as effective the other side good old diesel ICE (which you can still run on vegetable oil if dinosaurs juice runs out).
- fulafel 7y agoI actually meant to write trade sanctions. But yep plenty of ways to make diesel out of renewables.
- alacombe 7y agoYou still need to enforce your trade sanction by force. History has shown that wars are won by the side with the best energy supply. Your solar panels aren't gonna cut it. Actually, you still need to fertilize your crops (not to mention harvest, seed, weed-out, etc.), which which need a hell of a lot of petroleum derivative and/or manure, both of which are on the environmentalist hit-list.
- fulafel 7y agoTrade sanctions don't require use of force if you have most countries on your side, you can just threaten to extend the sanctions to any non compliant trade partners of the sanctioned countries.
- ben_w 7y agoSolar can produce up to about 1500 times humanity’s current total power consumption, including heating and transportation. It is currently in the middle (logarithmically not linearly) of replacing fossil fuels while simultaneously saving money.
- ginko 7y ago>Actually, you still need to fertilize your crops (not to mention harvest, seed, weed-out, etc.), which which need a hell of a lot of petroleum derivative and/or manure There's zero reason why you couldn't run the Haber process using electrolyzed hydrogen and electric heat