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Environment & Energy

Socialistlemur

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5. I remember writing something about it in an evolution debate 25 years ago

Reply to GliderGuider (Reply #3)

Mon May 27, 2013, 12:38 PM

May 2013

I'm not as swift as some of you but I still think we can get over the hump with renewables if we reduce population size. I think we could go to geothermal energy investment as an escape hatch, the technology known as fracking seems to have application but the working fluids need better definition.

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Energy to build it, energy to maintain it. [View all] GliderGuider May 2013 OP

Have to reduce population size Socialistlemur May 2013 #1

It will decline. GliderGuider May 2013 #2

A bit on my view of the role of thermodynamics GliderGuider May 2013 #3

I remember writing something about it in an evolution debate 25 years ago Socialistlemur May 2013 #5

To do this, you need to get people to stop having kids OnlinePoker May 2013 #8

Perversely I'm very left wing radical Catholic... hunter May 2013 #12

There’s a great deal of misinformation on this topic OKIsItJustMe May 2013 #13

I think it might be possible to bring this civilization in for a soft landing... hunter May 2013 #4

What does the ground of ocean expand....etc....mean? Socialistlemur May 2013 #6

I think hunter means that the airplane of civilization is crashing, GliderGuider May 2013 #7

Yep, thanks. hunter May 2013 #9

You reminded me of the two times I almost crashed while soaring GliderGuider May 2013 #10

Studying paleontology and ecology gave me a huge respect for chaos theory. hunter May 2013 #11