Jeff ID
I was dreaming of a world last night where we had a perfect energy source. It was a nice dream. Something which was high density, easily transportable, simple to find and not damaging to the environment. wow… What if it then had a low extraction footprint with no strip-mining, no rarity of existence, and even better, no biologically deadly emissions. It would be a Gaian dream. Greener than anything ever imagined by any human in history.
My dream grew even bigger. I don’t think small when dreaming apparently, which must be a side effect of the nefarious manner in which I was raised. This energy source was something that was easy to use with simple machinery such that energy could be made into rotational, kinetic, electric and heat with minimal mechanical requirements. You might even carry it in a bucket or something – I know it’s silly.
Such an energy source would revolutionize humanity. With almost no negative impacts, everyone on Earth would be behind it. Imagine how the freedom it would create would be completely unbounded. You could literally travel anywhere!! And then, what if that energy source emitted something useful!!!!
I know it’s impossible but wow, what a world it would be. What a world!!!!!!
My perfect dream would create no change in the existing rate of sea level rise – in all of recorded history..
Hurricanes wouldn’t increase..
Droughts would not get worse..
Famine would be dramatically reduced.
I know it’s impossible but man, what if its byproducts made clothes and food and toys and even birthday cakes!!! That would be a beautiful thing! Ahhh, if only I were God, what a thing I would do.
Everyone would be on my side.
Every single person would be my friend.
Here I am, front of the queue to congratulate you. 🙂
If only we had coal and oil and natural gas. The world would be wonderful.
And what if this dream source of energy was natural, organic and biodegradable too….
The neo-feudalists would never allow it
It is well established that the technological and thus living standard of any society is closely related to the amount of energy available. This is where reality diverges from The Plan:
Agenda 2030, a United Nations
dogmatic scripturePlan to implement by, you guessed it, 2030, has this little gem as one of its stated global “Goal 9”:(We shall) “…foster innovation”
Doesn’t that sound nice? Do you own a dictionary? Go look up ‘foster’. It is when you take something away from those who gave birth to it, and raise it in protective custody.
Now keep that in mind, every time you philosophy on Energy and the continued existence of mankind as we knew it.
Can we at least agree, your dream has many, many enemies, and they are richer than you.
One large drawback, it is not infinitely available. And is no longer cheap.
I learned in High School that this girl did not have the same dream as me. The realization has stuck with me.
The authentic renewables are water vapor and carbon dioxide, the products of combustion. So making good use of hydrocarbon fuels from natural sources makes perfect sense. Sure, eventually the depletion of natural deposits will need to be solved. Maybe nuclear-powered advanced synthesis, maybe anaerobic methanogens, maybe a lot of things. But we will do best to stop demonizing hydrocarbon fuels.
Wind + solar + battery storage is not “renewable.” Not even close. It requires too much manufacturing of new harvesting and storage machines that turn quickly into junk.
Hey friend, can you spare a bucket or sixteen to fill up my car?
Yes, just imagine if thorium powered liquid salts cooled reactors had not been abandoned….and imagine if Czar Putey Putin had not funded the anti-frackers in Europe.
Alex… What are fossil fuels?
Perfect dream because there is a enough of that stuff to go around for at least a millennia or longer.
My dream is super cheap energy (any input, any storage, any distribution) at grid or home scale that would empower people economically to go do their thing anywhere, even in rural America.
Anything that ends the ethical religious dystopian narrative that is sucking the life out of the West.
Unfortunately that isn’t a science and tech thing….. it is a power thing..
Central england is effectively a syncline (basin) of coal from one coast almost right through to the other, maybe a little high on sulphur but still coal, and lots of it.
(4) Perpetual Power Generator with Microwave Transformers _ New Method 2023 – YouTube
Simple when you know what to do.
The warmunists would bitterly oppose your perfect energy source. One of their number once said that creating such an energy source would be like handing a loaded gun to a small child.
Their goal is to impoverish, humiliate, and demoralize the lower orders. They want serfs not free citizens.
Once you understand their real goals, everything is clear.
The most Energy intense source is Nuclear. We need to go all out for it. We need to reduce the old fashioned BS Regulations that make Nuclear Plants slow and expensive to build eg Design one, build many, and do it consecutively with the same teams. In the meantime use all of the available resources ie onshore gas, coal and oil. The BGS have some great data showing the extent of resources in the UK. Forget about wasting money time and energy on wind and solar, they’re a distraction. Keep the anti fracking brigade at bay with proper transparently verifiable data. Record the seismology.
Sounds to me a lot like natural gas with some geothermal thrown in.
I had a dream the other night too. We had to go after some bad guys in small boats that were charged by putting them, pointy end up, into a thing like a toaster. Problem when I popped the toaster, they were not sufficiently charged.
Must stop reading Watts Up before bed.
Your dreams are placing you far into the future. We once had all that, and abandoned it.