Desalination around the world- how other countries are making fresh water from the ocean

[nationalize the fed]

13. the alternatives are here now, just not accepted

There are a couple of options. We can keep burning fossil fuels until climate changes crash this civilization, we can accept nuclear power and continue to live as we are now living until some other natural system supporting us collapses, or we can accept a much slower paced lifestyle powered by non-nuclear, non fossil fuel sources. My own choice would be the last -- a lower energy lifestyle and an end to economic "productivity" as we now know it.

Fuel cell cars, buses, trucks etc. can eliminate the piston powered gas engine within a few years, and the only exhaust is water. Solar electricity is in the infant stage, with many innovations to come.

Using fission to boil water to spin turbines is insane and should be illegal. Hopefully saner heads will prevail in the future. Not one more fission plant needs to be built.

Hydrogen is the future, and it's here now. Many either don't get it or don't want to.

I don't think humans, such as we are, will ever leave this planet in any significant numbers....

Humans have around 4 billion years before the sun blows up to figure out how to leave the planet, and I'd like to think that's enough time to figure out how to do it.

...but it's more likely, if we continue down the path we are on, that our species will join all the others that have become extinct.

Sometimes the negativity of the internet is overwhelming. I'm still a bit more optimistic.