Reply #32: Yes, a little [View All]

[Terran]

although not that company. I think you miss what was perhaps my main point. Yes, there are many technologies out there now that can save our butts. I've read wind power could actually supply the world's needs by itself. The obstacles aren't technological, they're economic and political. What do you suppose the cost would be to build enough plants converting waste to fuel via thermal depolymerization to supply this country with energy, in ALL it's forms? It took decades to build the industrial infrastructure we have now. But we don't have decades to remake it again--things may start falling apart in just a few years.

There is also the matter of the will to do this. Do you actually think the currently vested interests will just go quietly? Do you think some governments won't see a potential benefit in going to war to get a hold of existing oil resources, instead of the more difficult choice of radically altering their energy infrastructure?

Technology is not the problem; politicians and consumers are the problem.