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The alternative is to save energy. There is still much to gain with advanced technology. For example we drive all day with vehicels that have an overall efficie
by holri 16y ago
The alternative is to save energy. There is still much to gain with advanced technology. For example we drive all day with vehicels that have an overall efficiency factor of 3%. Huge waste is going on. It's a shame.
- khafra 16y agoIf there were ways to save large amounts while maintaining economic output, people would be doing them and making massive amounts of money from the savings. There are ways to achieve a mean world GDP, or at least a standard of living similar to ours at a much lower rate of single-use resource consumption, but we're at a local optima. Civilization is a greedy search algorithm.
- holri 16y agoIt's a matter of price. Labour ist very expensive and high taxed. Therefore you can get rich by developing technology saving labour. On the other hand energy is cheap, so there is no economical incentive to save energy. Image an opposite pricing. I bet we would have carbon cars weighing 300 kg and with 1l/km fuel consumption. Technologically possible today but not economically.