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Sardauk on 04 July 2009
mrstickball said:
Sarduk - HE3 powered reactors will come online within the next 30-40 years. Even with currently available efficiency ratings, 50 tons of HE3 (the moon has about 100,000,000 megatons of the stuff, FYI) could meet the energy needs of the world for a year. Don't you think it'd be more environmentally-friendly to mine 50 tons of material as opposed to thousands of kilometers of solar arrays?

Just because something is non-renewable doesn't automatically make it less friendly. Afterall, the material used in windmills or solar arrays are non-renewable. Conservation > Renewable. It'd be better to use a small, non-renewable amount of product for something that can take care of billions as opposed to a much larger amount of material needed for a renewable source. Even if we did use solar to power everything, the arrays would constantly need replaced by non-renewable materials.


It is an assumption. Besides, 3O-40 years of steady CO2 increase will dramatically change the weather as we know it, and will bring consequences to geopolitic situations (Wars for food and water, and moderate wheather area).

Within 30-40 years, green energies will probably sustain households consumptions while Reactors will be more military/heavy industries oriented.

We will need a combination of the two anyway... it is not about only choosing one as an excuse to cut the taxation problems....



 

Evan Wells (Uncharted 2): I think the differences that you see between any two games has much more to do with the developer than whether it’s on the Xbox or PS3.

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Sardauk on 04 July 2009
TheRealMafoo said:
mrstickball said:
Sarduk - HE3 powered reactors will come online within the next 30-40 years. Even with currently available efficiency ratings, 50 tons of HE3 (the moon has about 100,000,000 megatons of the stuff, FYI) could meet the energy needs of the world for a year. Don't you think it'd be more environmentally-friendly to mine 50 tons of material as opposed to thousands of kilometers of solar arrays?

Just because something is non-renewable doesn't automatically make it less friendly. Afterall, the material used in windmills or solar arrays are non-renewable. Conservation > Renewable. It'd be better to use a small, non-renewable amount of product for something that can take care of billions as opposed to a much larger amount of material needed for a renewable source. Even if we did use solar to power everything, the arrays would constantly need replaced by non-renewable materials.

Everything is renewable, it's just a question of time.


Indeed, but time that we don't have.

And our current economy is agains't what is renewable and substainable.



 

Evan Wells (Uncharted 2): I think the differences that you see between any two games has much more to do with the developer than whether it’s on the Xbox or PS3.

TheRealMafoo on 04 July 2009
Sardauk said:
TheRealMafoo said:
mrstickball said:
Sarduk - HE3 powered reactors will come online within the next 30-40 years. Even with currently available efficiency ratings, 50 tons of HE3 (the moon has about 100,000,000 megatons of the stuff, FYI) could meet the energy needs of the world for a year. Don't you think it'd be more environmentally-friendly to mine 50 tons of material as opposed to thousands of kilometers of solar arrays?

Just because something is non-renewable doesn't automatically make it less friendly. Afterall, the material used in windmills or solar arrays are non-renewable. Conservation > Renewable. It'd be better to use a small, non-renewable amount of product for something that can take care of billions as opposed to a much larger amount of material needed for a renewable source. Even if we did use solar to power everything, the arrays would constantly need replaced by non-renewable materials.

Everything is renewable, it's just a question of time.


Indeed, but time that we don't have.

And our current economy is agains't what is renewable and substainable.

We have a lot of time. Humans are not going to destroy the planet. Worst we will do is make it uninhabitable for humans, all die off, and in 200 million years (a blink of an eye in the planets life), nothing we did here will matter.

 



Avinash_Tyagi on 04 July 2009
TheRealMafoo said:
Sardauk said:
TheRealMafoo said:
mrstickball said:
Sarduk - HE3 powered reactors will come online within the next 30-40 years. Even with currently available efficiency ratings, 50 tons of HE3 (the moon has about 100,000,000 megatons of the stuff, FYI) could meet the energy needs of the world for a year. Don't you think it'd be more environmentally-friendly to mine 50 tons of material as opposed to thousands of kilometers of solar arrays?

Just because something is non-renewable doesn't automatically make it less friendly. Afterall, the material used in windmills or solar arrays are non-renewable. Conservation > Renewable. It'd be better to use a small, non-renewable amount of product for something that can take care of billions as opposed to a much larger amount of material needed for a renewable source. Even if we did use solar to power everything, the arrays would constantly need replaced by non-renewable materials.

Everything is renewable, it's just a question of time.


Indeed, but time that we don't have.

And our current economy is agains't what is renewable and substainable.

We have a lot of time. Humans are not going to destroy the planet. Worst we will do is make it uninhabitable for humans, all die off, and in 200 million years (a blink of an eye in the planets life), nothing we did here will matter.

 


Ummm yeah, no one is worried about destroying the planet, we're worried about us, don't know about you, but I would prefer humans to be around long enough to evolve into a new species, not die off because of over pollution and shifiting climates.



 

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TheRealMafoo on 04 July 2009
Avinash_Tyagi said:


 Ummm yeah, no one is worried about destroying the planet, we're worried about us, don't know about you, but I would prefer humans to be around long enough to evolve into a new species, not die off because of over pollution and shifiting climates.

Me too, but the doomsday argument gets tiring.



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Final-Fan on 04 July 2009
TheRealMafoo said:
We have a lot of time. Humans are not going to destroy the planet. Worst we will do is make it uninhabitable for humans, all die off, and in 200 million years (a blink of an eye in the planets life), nothing we did here will matter.

200 million years is not an eyeblink even by the universe's standard, let alone the planet's.  Earth has only blinked 22.5 times? 



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Sardauk on 04 July 2009
TheRealMafoo said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:


Ummm yeah, no one is worried about destroying the planet, we're worried about us, don't know about you, but I would prefer humans to be around long enough to evolve into a new species, not die off because of over pollution and shifiting climates.

Me too, but the doomsday argument gets tiring.


Doomsday... sight... That is not gonna happen to an American or a European.

You mentioned the poors several times... it happens to them every day and it gets worth.

 

Pfff who cares anyway ?

Lets drill, pollute, consume and die (BUT you don't touch my f*cking monnnaaayyy !)

I'm bored...



 

Evan Wells (Uncharted 2): I think the differences that you see between any two games has much more to do with the developer than whether it’s on the Xbox or PS3.