lifeboat.com — This report by José Luis Cordeiro, director of the World Transhumanist Association, was "written in 2020 and sent via wormhole" to describe how the energy crisis resolved itself by 2020. It even documents the fact that a third Bush was elected as President. (Oh well.)
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dagonwebJan 8, 2007
Quite an optimistic scenario. I have studied the various aspects of energy police in great detail and I am moving from a "oil crash" energy pessimist around 2001 to a more optimistic stance a la Jeremy Rifkin. However I think that the antics of the NeoCons in Iraq [who arguably started an oil aquisition war in order to guarantee the "western democracies", specifically the US, would have oil in the coming decades] have endangered world peace, not in the least by executing this viking raid in a pretty miserable manner. My longterm hopes still lie with fusion, preferably He3 fusion powered by imported Lunar He3. The modest infrastructure required for He3 will spark other mining projects on the moon and near asteroids, and that can only spark serendipitous progres most people have no conception off. There are still ignorant types calling the moon "a worthless ball of rock". Boy will they have a laugh about that in 2050. ...assuming we don't screw up and have a massive global collapse. It can go real well or disastrously wrong.
blueheronJan 9, 2007
I'd like to pit Mr. Cordeiro against James Kunstler, recently author of "The Long Emergency" and definitely of the "oil crash" persuasion, in a debate on this issue. I'd expect one of Kunstler's points to be that at the present rate of consumption, all of the now estimated oil reserves will be consumed by 2037. Yes, everybody hopes that those estimates will be increased, but nobody expects consumption to be anything like level. Another concept I'd expect of Kunstler is a tough look at the relationship of the cost of obtaining the energy to the net energy gained. On that thought I'm off to find out more about Lunar H3.