glowmode wrote:The real reason that "climate change" was brought into this thread was because SAFIRE is pivoting into the sustainable energy market. The SAFIRE team must do that or risk running out of funds. If there's one thing that Al Gore has taught us, it's that anthropogenic climate change sells!
If the SAFIRE reactor happens to become a popular source of energy, I'm looking forward to the entire planet getting away from fossil fuels, just for the simple fact that people start wars over that shit, and use it as a control mechanism. Earth should go all-electric (after all, it already is that from a cosmological standpoint). We all know that electric is the future.
Even if we disagree with climate change believers about climate change itself, do people here disagree that electrical transportation (electric cars, bikes, planes) are the way of the future? Do we disagree with them that the Earth is sitting at the precipice of what is likely the greatest climate catastrophe any human has seen in 12,000 years? We have so many similarities and I for one applaud the SAFIRE team for pandering to that market. They have to sell out to move on.
Also, I'm so excited for the Thornhill and Scott video on the SAFIRE findings. I think that that will be one of the most important Thudnerbolts updates of all time. So very much looking forward to that content!!
Tempted to take this to a new thread, or ask the mods to do so.
I have one huge problem with the dive towards electric transportation - Batteries.
Have you looked into
A - how little time these things last before they degrade, and
B - just how much rare earth is required to make them, and
C - how bloody difficult they are to dispose of without some extremely nasty pollution in themselves?
Yes - a clean power source would be wonderful but battery based is not the answer. All electric vehicles do more harm to the environment, pollution wise, than the gas guzzlers they are replacing once you take the environmental damage caused by their initial manufacture and replacement /disposal of batteries into account.
What we should be doing is stopping pollution and single use plastics. That would be a great first step. Instead the politicians are demonizing a trace gas that has no effect on climate - period.