[jbeckton]

This is a link to a CNN board question-
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08 ... cnnSTCText

"What is the future for energy? Where will our power come from by 2020? Send us your thoughts and we'll print the best ones here."

I am by no means a doomer but the responses from some of these people show that education is the first step. Most of these people have absolutely no idea what the hell they are talking about.

If these are the "best ones" I want to see the ones that didn't make it.

I can't stop reading them, it's like a car wreck, I can't turn away.

[like_the_dinosaurs]

Looks to me like they get worse, the further down the page you go.

Nano, fusion and denial of global warming.

And my personal favourite, creating mini lightning bolts from air.

Makes me laugh and cry at the same time.

[julianj]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[Aaron]

Ahhh I love seeing these moments... when a moderate like Beckton begins to understand the real problem... & marches toward doomerism.

After all the technofix arguments & sustainability debates, we are left with a terrible truth.

People.

Don't fear Peak Oil... fear how your neighbors will react to it.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'm')ini lightning bolts from air

[jbeckton]

Here are a few of my favorite comments:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')o when someone comes up with some kind of a machine or a method to extract energy from a dead body (as gross as it sounds).... it would change the world.

[jbeckton]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'A')hhh I love seeing these moments... when a moderate like Beckton begins to understand the real problem... & marches toward doomerism.

[Olaf]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'A')hhh I love seeing these moments... when a moderate like Beckton begins to understand the real problem... & marches toward doomerism.

After all the technofix arguments & sustainability debates, we are left with a terrible truth.

People.

Don't fear Peak Oil... fear how your neighbors will react to it.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'm')ini lightning bolts from air

[perdition79]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('like_the_dinosaurs', 'c')reating mini lightning bolts from air.

[jbeckton]

Here are a few more brian busters...


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') have a design for a mountain top power generator that captures lightning and uses the mountain to store the energy like a giant capacitor.

[Ludi]

That last one is just precious.



I FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT OUR ENERGY NEEDS IN THE FUTURE WILL BE ABSOLVED BY THE RE-DISCOVERY OF THE VAST SEA OF ETHERIC ENERGY THAT SURROUNDS US AND CAN BE OBTAINED EVEN IN THE VOID OF SPACE. MAGNETICS WILL HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW TO EXTRACT THIS ENERGY. PERPETUALLY....


Feel the etheric energy all around us.....

[Ayame]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', '
')Don't fear Peak Oil... fear how your neighbors will react to it.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'T')hat last one is just precious.



I FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT OUR ENERGY NEEDS IN THE FUTURE WILL BE ABSOLVED BY THE RE-DISCOVERY OF THE VAST SEA OF ETHERIC ENERGY THAT SURROUNDS US AND CAN BE OBTAINED EVEN IN THE VOID OF SPACE. MAGNETICS WILL HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW TO EXTRACT THIS ENERGY. PERPETUALLY....


Feel the etheric energy all around us.....

[JPL]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'T')hat last one is just precious.



I FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT OUR ENERGY NEEDS IN THE FUTURE WILL BE ABSOLVED BY THE RE-DISCOVERY OF THE VAST SEA OF ETHERIC ENERGY THAT SURROUNDS US AND CAN BE OBTAINED EVEN IN THE VOID OF SPACE. MAGNETICS WILL HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW TO EXTRACT THIS ENERGY. PERPETUALLY....


Feel the etheric energy all around us.....

[whereagles]

See? That's what happens when newspapers try explaining complicated stuff (i.e. cosmological dark energy) to people.

[Novus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jbeckton', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'A')hhh I love seeing these moments... when a moderate like Beckton begins to understand the real problem... & marches toward doomerism.

[Revi]

You wonder what is in most people's heads. Have you seen Idiocracy? Some of these answers remind me of that movie. "Brawndo's got electrolytes."

[Denny]

The one that got me was the reference to salt water and paper batteries. Geez, it can even replace AA batteries. Zowie!

Like if you took all the AA batteries in the world, what it represent of the electrical powoer used in one day? 3 seconds? 15 seconds? Not sure, but it wold be insignificant, that is for sure.

Considering we are many generations now into the electrical age, the common citizen is no more advanced in their understanding of it than his or her great-grandfather in th early 20th century.

[AirlinePilot]

OMFG!

If there was anything pushing me over the edge it is stuff like this. I cannot begin to imagine how monumentally fucked we all are when things begin to unwind.

It is mind numbing, it is sickening, it is terrifying.

We will plummet from the spires of humanity when the lifeblood of modern mankind can no longer course through his veins.

The basic man on the street is barely equipped to get through a single normal day, let alone what things may look like in 15-20 years. Is it no wonder we have so many doomer's here? How can you NOT be one after seeing things like this?

Reminds me of Leno's Jaywalking pieces. Un-be-liev-a-ble!

[AirlinePilot]

his one is priceless!


"This is way overdue......remember slot cars when you were a kid. Put a groove down the middle of major highways power it from the wind generation and tie into the national power grid and bada bing......no more oil dependancy or oil wars."

[SolarDave]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Denny', 'T')he one that got me was the reference to salt water and paper batteries. Geez, it can even replace AA batteries. Zowie!

Like if you took all the AA batteries in the world, what it represent of the electrical powoer used in one day? 3 seconds? 15 seconds? Not sure, but it wold be insignificant, that is for sure.

Considering we are many generations now into the electrical age, the common citizen is no more advanced in their understanding of it than his or her great-grandfather in th early 20th century.