Not at all. I'm quite happy to discuss what I've actually proposed, but that's not what you're doing. You dismiss my arguments as scientific religion,...
No. The premise of this thread is - the particular approach I argue is necessary to save the world, and I want to talk about it. Something you've refu...
Who says it can never be used? There may come a time in the future when it will be necessary to burn fossil fuels to regulate the climate in the oppos...
Okay. Go on... It's rude and off topic. Crashing into someone else's thread with a vaguely related idea - contrary to the stated aim of the thread, is...
I am obsessed with hydrogen - that's true, but the rest isn't true. There are good reasons for the particular application of technologies I suggested....
Welcome. I found this observation of yours interesting and wanted to comment. If I may just point out that 'how to save the world' is not a question. ...
No Jake. You have either failed or not even tried to get to grips with my ideas. You're just dumping your nonsense on my thread. Start your own thread...
botheius: You would take the pain upfront if you would tax fossil fuels to decrease demand, and/or to force technological change. It could be done tha...
How it could be done: In terms of the physics of reality - solving the energy issue is the first necessary step to securing a sustainable future. Ener...
The flaw in my otherwise perfect plan, Ships might run into them! Oh no! I didn't think of that! It's beyond the wit of man and the reach of technolog...
How are we going to live in space - if we cannot live sustainably here on earth? This planet is ideally suited to the kind of beings we are - or vice ...
Make that sixteen! So, your alternative is what? That we have less? How is that achieved? We dismantle capitalism - is that your plan? And exchange it...
It's not suitable technology, or knowledge of the problem that we lack. We can do this, but not without some innovative political and economic ideas. ...
There's no magic symmetry that somehow changes the value of money to offset internalizing the true cost of fossil fuel burning. Not exactly, no - but ...
My beef with you is - this is my thread, and thus far you haven't discussed my ideas at all. You keep putting the same idea forward again and again - ...
No-one has disputed that human beings are limited; nor has anyone argued for unlimited use of technology. The pertinent point is that human beings are...
I apologize for the brevity of my previous reply. I was just making a note - preparing to answer when it all kicked off. Poirot - double header, the e...
A billion is a very big number. It's so large that it distorts any comparison to the life of an ordinary person. I think these statistics suffer from ...
That's a reasonable argument. I do seem to be laying blame exclusively with the Church, but rather I'm describing what actually happened to the man wh...
If you begin with the genetic lottery that distributes gifts like intelligence unevenly; you are led to the realization that 50% of people are below a...
I don't think we are successfully managing technology. We are headed for extinction as a consequence of the particular technologies we've chosen to em...
It's an opinion of course, that Marx saved capitalism. It wasn't his intent, but let us assume his critique was correct - then capitalism should have ...
If there is any prospect at all of successfully managing the potential dangers of science and technology, I'd suggest it follows from adopting respons...
It's difficult to get all the pieces to relate correctly one to another. Thanks for making the effort. But consider the opportunity foregone by the Ch...
Actually, I'm trying to watch Poirot! I can leave that there as the bookmark of an idea I might elaborate on when I'm less at leisure and more focused...
Homework? At my age? I've hardly the eyes for it anymore, and keep forgetting where I left my damn spectacles! I keep adding things to my reading list...
It would be helpful if you made yourself aware of the argument set out in the thread. It's arguably quite an important argument, and you're doodling o...
My manners are appalling, and I'd apologize, but I have something to say that's difficult for people to hear. I can't apologize for the tactics employ...
I disagree. I wouldn't suggest internalizing the true cost. But if you did, the very value of money itself would adjust - just as it adapted to oil pr...
Begin with a newly formed, sterile earth - still hot and steaming. Merely physical forces acting on chemical elements... forming compounds, we now kno...
I believe I can prove you wrong, but it's a lengthy argument. I can show you the causal relationship between the evolving organism and reality, that p...
I'm not an electrical engineer - I'm a philosopher. I've pointed out two dozen times that I'm only seeking to prove in principle that it's technologic...
I'm sorry BitterCrank, if you're getting the feeling I'm avoiding your posts. I'm not - at least not deliberately. Interesting question. 1633 - Galile...
None taken. This is a political philosophy forum, and I'm seeking to do political philosophy - not chemistry and technical drawing. I can't give you a...
I read somewhere it's an indirect greenhouse gas - prolonging the lifetime of other pollutants in the atmosphere, which presumably would be less of a ...
You've misunderstood. I've said magically becoming rational was the natural course of human affairs, but a course we didn't take. It may seem strange ...
Concise is better. Thanks. Fossil fuels ubiquitous position in the energy market relative to renewables makes this an inherently unjust calculus. I wa...
Lot of concrete in a nuclear power station. Covering the oceans completely would be disastrous - if it were even possible. The oceans are 7/10ths of t...
Ahhh, the Malthusians - they are persistently gloomy. Thomas Robert Malthus FRS was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of politi...
And what's more, you can't eat a tank! It wasn't actually the first computer, but that's another debate - one that ultimately resolves to the question...
The short answers are transmission loss over distance, particularly at lower voltages, the night-time problem - and that, powering national grids woul...
Well, I could say a lot more about my approach too - but I'm not getting that you've fully come to grips with it. Or seek to come to grips with it! Ho...
I find your post very difficult to respond to. I don;t wish to be rude, but it's so wordy - I can't identify the points you're trying to make. Might I...
I haven't made that argument. I have argued for the necessity of changing that equation, and described a possibly possible means to do so. I have argu...
That certainly could be said about the nature of science - and how it is employed in society, but much more might also be said about the nature of sci...
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