Quiz Question...

homelessskilledworker

Thrugelmir wrote: »

In many areas water is already serious issue. So where's this resource going to be pumped from.

Enough water on this planet is not an issue:), far from it.

spadoosh

Thrugelmir wrote: »

In many areas water is already serious issue. So where's this resource going to be pumped from.

Theres enough water (on its cycle) to supply the world (at current level) the problem is getting it to where its needed storing and processing of it. Notincluding things like saline distillation (sp)

His point is valid with unlimited energy would solve most problems because it wouldnt matter if it was wasted. As it costs nothing. You dont pay for air because ther is an abundance of it (that and the gov still havent worked out how to tax it.)

Thrugelmir

homelessskilledworker wrote: »

Enough water on this planet is not an issue:), far from it.

Maybe the answer. Though not the solution. As pumping water around in sufficient volume will require some engineering.

homelessskilledworker

spadoosh wrote: »

All well and good but your forgetting something.... greed. Ther emight be something that could make unlimited and free energy, will the people (and i mean all the people) ever see this. Your more optimistic than i though.

It could be done now if people with money were willing to pay for it but then theyd have no power over people.

My suggestion turn the majority of africa into a giant solar panel and ireland into a wind farm... problem solved

I wondered about this very idea, right now they are working on a PV cell that is a 50th of the present price. My idea would be to cover a huge part of the Sahara with these pv panels. Can you imagine the energy that these would produce.

The few locals would have also all the shade they could ever need:)

homelessskilledworker

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Maybe the answer. Though not the solution. As pumping water around in sufficient volume will require some engineering.

If you have the energy source then ANYTHING is possible, extraction of various ores, food, heat, freezing, transport, the list is just endless.

In my own head the future of this planet will be incredible, and I just do not see this doomsday picture that so many preach, our biggest worry will be some nutter with a weapon of mass destruction.

homelessskilledworker

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

Just goes to show what a rubbish ultimate aim the profit motive is.
As far as I am aware, railways were the driving force for many advancements (e.g. more accurate time measurements) and were vital for the industrial revolution.
And today they still provide a vital service.

Just a massive shame that we never moved over to Isambards Kingdoms Brunels wider gauge, it would have been even better.

spadoosh

homelessskilledworker wrote: »

If you have the energy source then ANYTHING is possible, extraction of various ores, food, heat, freezing, transport, the list is just endless.

In my own head the future of this planet will be incredible, and I just do not see this doomsday picture that so many preach, our biggest worry will be some nutter with a weapon of mass destruction.

Or some nutter creating a device that can power the globe.

I'd love to share your optimism and in general im a very happy person, looking forward though i see dark times. Massive struggle for resources (which will please some on here restricting the population growth) the wealth divide growing globally and then the fighting for whats left and ownership.

It really is daft the world we live in.

I know im going to be told either im a hippy or deluded but i do hope for the 'star trek' civilisation, one where the world has a whole has no borders no governance just like minded ideas on beneffiting human kind. The only goal to push us forward. No restrictions. We're weak enough as humans without fighting against each other, theres bigger problems that face mankind than trade deficits and economies. Yet few people see this.

Im one of the most laid back people anyone could meet, very little bothers me and i very very rarely worry about anything, humans going forward does worry me (alot), then i sometimes think meh weve managed so far and not done too bad.

Thrugelmir

homelessskilledworker wrote: »

In my own head the future of this planet will be incredible, and I just do not see this doomsday picture that so many preach, our biggest worry will be some nutter with a weapon of mass destruction.

I spent some years working for a Company with a great concept for renewable resource preservation. The Company has now been trading for 9 years. Has consumed nearly £30 million of venture capital. Has yet to make a profit in any trading year, and requires yet more capital funding.

Ideas are great. Commercial reality is another matter.

spadoosh

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Ideas are great. Commercial reality is another matter.

Completely agree.

This is what stands in the way of world evolution.

homelessskilledworker

spadoosh wrote: »

Or some nutter creating a device that can power the globe.

I'd love to share your optimism and in general im a very happy person, looking forward though i see dark times. Massive struggle for resources (which will please some on here restricting the population growth) the wealth divide growing globally and then the fighting for whats left and ownership.

It really is daft the world we live in.

I know im going to be told either im a hippy or deluded but i do hope for the 'star trek' civilisation, one where the world has a whole has no borders no governance just like minded ideas on beneffiting human kind. The only goal to push us forward. No restrictions. We're weak enough as humans without fighting against each other, theres bigger problems that face mankind than trade deficits and economies. Yet few people see this.

Im one of the most laid back people anyone could meet, very little bothers me and i very very rarely worry about anything, humans going forward does worry me (alot), then i sometimes think meh weve managed so far and not done too bad.

I do understand where you are coming from, and the path we are taking now is just based on self interest and doomed to fail. But every problem we perceive to be there has an easy solution if there was a political will not smoothered out by religion for example.

I think the communications revolution is incredible enough, but once we arrive at the energy revolution everything that came before it will just be pants in comparision:)
The sooner we start the inevitable move from oil/fossil fuels the better, but greed and power will put that back away.

I think this planets future will be spectactular, I just think something really awfull will happen first though, the kick up the a**e