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are you so sure? there are intelligent species other than humans. Perhaps they are simply human-like species in their nascent evolutionary state.
by DontchaKnowit 3y ago
are you so sure? there are intelligent species other than humans. Perhaps they are simply human-like species in their nascent evolutionary state.
- adrianN 3y agoIt's unlikely that a second industrial revolution can happen, since we already consumed all the easily mined resources.
- debaserab2 3y agoOnly the ones useful to us
- oefnak 3y agoBut we left them on top, right?
- mtsr 3y agoMaterials yes, but easily accessible sources of large amounts of energy are mostly gone.
- zerodensity 3y agoI mean they will still have the sun.
- badpun 3y agoProducing solar panels requires an advanced technical civilization being in place. You cannot jump from middle ages tech to producing solar panels with skipping dependence on fossil fuels in the intermediate steps.
- zerodensity 3y agoYou can still use water and wind which are also powered by the sun.
- adrianN 3y agoWe had water and wind power for centuries before the industrial revolution happened.
- zerodensity 3y agoYour point being?
- mtsr 3y agoIt’s hard to extract the huge amounts of energy we get from fossil fuels from these sources without having a cheap energy source available to get you started.
- zerodensity 3y agoHard does not matter. If it takes the new life 100k years to go from agricultural to the industrial revolution rather than the 10k years it took us they will still get there. What I am saying is that it's not impossible to have an industrial revolution without coal. Not that it's not hard.
- badpun 3y agoWe did that in preindustrial age. In total, it didn’t amount to that much energy.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoWe at most did things like run a mill on a river. Now compare the megawatt output of a proper modern hydroelectric project and say it isn't much energy. Imagine a society side stepping coalburning and going right to big hydro projects. Even something like a forest specifically grown and cultivated for energy is a relatively new idea, and doesn’t require any real technology even beyond understanding systems theory.
- sgu999 3y agoPetrol is renewable, just not at our scale. I'm not sure where all the materials we left on the surface will be in a couple million years however.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoIf carbon is burned its in the atmosphere presumably. Thats easily accessible as it will eventually get absorbed as terrestrial biomass. Charcoal economies are technologically simpler than coal economies.