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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Sorry, I don't buy the pessimism. I watched the "survivalists" of the late seventies. We went onto 25 years of overall good times. (Overall. I rode the Texas banking debacle all the way down to the bottom in the 1980's as a bank programmer.)
We've been in an energy squeeze for the last 7 years. It'll last another 7-10 years. Then we'll be out for another 25 year good times run. Shucks, we're all e-book readers here. Look how much resources that saves. Wind is already at the inversion point, solar will be there in another 5 years. Battery technology is slowly but steadily improving. We'll make it thru this valley....
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Saw a program recently where a new solar collection ink had been developed that can be applied with a standard ink-jet printer to a thin mylar film. This was purported to be much more efficient than existing solar collectors as well as much cheaper to make and was flexible to boot. Looked very promising.
If we could slow the population growth and speed the development cycle, maybe there will be several more generations before we run out of energy. It's a race to see which wins.