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I think energy is going to be scarce based on analysis of the material circumstances, such as land and resource availability and the involved thermodynamics. Pr
by janef0421 4y ago
I think energy is going to be scarce based on analysis of the material circumstances, such as land and resource availability and the involved thermodynamics. Price is irrelevant, because price is a social phenomenon, not a material one.
- carbonguy 4y agoWhile land and resource availability are definitely reasonable concerns in any discussion about, say, shifting humanity's primary energy source to direct solar (lots of panels means lots of factories to build them and lots of land to put them on) as opposed to indirect solar (oil and coal) I'm struggling to understand why you think "thermodynamics" means that usable energy will become scarcer on a timeline that is meaningful to human civilization. Happy to listen if you care to explain, but no worries if not.
- adrianN 4y agoLand is plentiful and solar panels are (by weight) almost exclusively made from sand (followed by aluminium). What problem to do you anticipate?