Bobert:

I suggest to you that the problem is ALREADY conservation of energy being over-emphasized. This is a failure in imagination or the result of direct suppression by oil-interests.

Oil iis terrific -- its portability, energy-density ratio and (up until lately) availability make it a natural choice as a means of energizing our industrial sites including trucks and cars.

But to imply there is a crisis of energy while we live in a universe that has nothign else in it BUT energy is absurd.

I concur absolutely that enviro-friendly energy (renewable) is critical.

But rather than reduce consumptionl would the world not prosper more if there were systems in place capable of producing 100 times what anyone ever needed? Suppose you could travel by car for a penny a mile? Better? Absolutely. Suppose we could take a crate the size of a small car and install it in a remote village and thus generate unto it all the energy it could possibly need?

These capabilities are just over the horizon, technologically. They require determination and imagination and freedom from oil-fixated oligarchists, in order to be realized.

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