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You want to murder most of the population of earth and you call me unrealistic because I want to drill to harness magma energy? I asked how you plan t...

No, it's really not a thing. Resources are ultimately a function of the energy available to create them. It's morally repugnant to consider people sur...

Over-population is not a thing. The misapplication of technology is a thing. If we applied the right technologies the world could easily sustain 8 bil...

There really isn't though, and herein lies the point. We'd have to cover an area of 225,000 square miles with solar panels to meet current global ener...

Drilling 10,000 m deep geothermal wells 15 September 2010 It may be possible to collect geothermal energy from depths down to 10,000 m, according to N...

Whether you are right, (you are not right) or wrong - we are close to an impasse of direct and repeated contradiction. I can't explain why again, beca...

I understand the principle; but it doesn't apply. Underground water sources fed by convection can hold a limited amount of energy and take time to hea...

Not feasible, why? You're not suggesting are you, that the energy is not there? There is an unimaginably massive amount of energy in the earth's inter...

Shelves are tricky! Wait until you encounter drawers!

I'm looking to drill through rock at temperatures of 700'C - close to magma chambers and subduction zones, line the bore holes with pipes and pump wat...

My assumptions are that we have to be right in relation to reality to survive and prosper. The best knowledge of reality we have is science. And if we...

It's strange how age imparts credibility. Supercomputer generated climate models are a dime a dozen, but if the 1912 editor of the Commonwealth of Col...

There's exigency aplenty to come if we don't develop an adequate alternative to fossil fuels, you can bet your bottom dollar on that! Just been lookin...

Put up or shut up on the question of whether to continue to use fossil fuels, or stop suddenly with no back up plan in place? That's not a choice. If ...

Such trenchant critique! Clearly you are an intellectual!

Thanks. But credit should really go to Wilson Clark - who wrote an encyclopaedia of potential energy technologies published in 1972, entitled Energy f...

Evidence, to show what? What exactly is it that you want me to prove? What is it that you can't google for yourself? If I recommended a book, what are...

Then let me bring you up to speed. I'm saying a left wing anti-capitalist green commie approach to sustainability is wrong, because the root problem i...

No. What you reckon is specifically excluded. For all sorts of reasons; where to begin. Capitalism works. Capitalism has the knowledge, technology and...

Is it that - having me point out a possible, but seemingly unlikely means of securing a sustainable future implies horrors too terrible to contemplate...

First, I said I'd demonstrated the rightfulness and trustworthiness of science as a rationale for the application of technology - not demonstrated tha...

What I propose hasn't been done. As far as I'm aware, the research doesn't exist. There is other research that is relevant in some respect, a piece of...

I don't wish to take on all the baggage of scientism, but but on this one key issue - science offers an objective rationale for the application of tec...

If you refuse to value the opinion of someone who is clearly interested in, and knowledgeable about a subject then that's your too bad. I could, I sup...

Science is also a body of knowledge; a worldview, to contrast with an ideological worldview. Applying technology in accord with an ideological worldvi...

I didn't express my opinion on fusion. Not really. I said I'm not optimistic, but actually, I think it won't work, not profitably anyway. My hunch is ...

You just said: For you, it's rhetorical. I express opinions that are justified with reference to research, and obviously so - but what I don't have is...

Indeed.

I can maybe understand why you say so, but I think it would be better to develop magma energy as the global energy commons precisely because it would ...

Speak for yourself. Or what you say has a relevance and consequence for me - and is therefore paradoxical. It's simple logic. That's what I am saying ...

There's a famous saying that fusion has been 5 years away for the past 30 years. And that was 20 years ago. It's still five years away. I'm not optimi...

Exactly! The problem lives in the real world. Energy policies are fashioned by sovereign nation states in service to their interests, and the sum of a...

I don't see it that way. I'm pointing toward a scientific understanding of reality as a trustworthy rationale for the application of technology - not ...

It's not an unreasonable question to ask - if it is possible that humankind might survive? Turns out it is possible - and here's how! What's messianic...

Those are reasonable concerns I'm in no position to refute empirically, but nonetheless, I think otherwise. The word 'geothermal' covers a lot of grou...

A disinterested view of the science seems to recommend we harness the massive heat energy of magma to produce limitless electrical power - to sustain ...

Among the best attributes a hypothetical human civilisation could exhibit is respect for science as an understanding of reality. If technology were ap...

Exit...pursued by bear!

The organism was incorrect in relation to the reality of its environment, and so was rendered extinct. Moderators - red in tooth and claw!

To maintain science is just a tool is very wrong. It's so much more than that; and that in essence is the whole argument, because there's a functional...

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We could aim to overcome climate change completely. Sufficient clean energy is available from the molten interior of the earth; that we could decide a...

"Ever since Theresa May's government pushed through legislation committing the UK to be net zero by 2050, questions have been asked about the monument...

I must have written that a thousand years ago. Why post that here now - without a link? I've no idea where it came from - or what, precisely I was ref...

You would say that, but I remember Neil Kinnock twice unable to score past a very tired post Thatcher Tory government. Tony Blair ditched Clause IV; w...

I found the list easy enough when I looked. If you want to incorporate it into your post, I'll delete my posts after!

That's a quite badly written Wikipedia page about The Seven World Riddles, and it doesn't list the seven, and nor do you! Has science solved some of t...

I totally get why a laser pointer, directed from Earth, could move a point across the surface of Mars faster than light. What I don't understand is ho...

I've read a couple of your posts now, and am still wondering what your age, sex and location are. Not a hint. It leads me to suspect your profile pict...

Have you considered the inherent difficulties of studying something so big and so old as the universe? I do not accept cosmology 'is not science' just...