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Old 05-15-2018, 02:28 PM   #1731 (permalink)
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Getting started on Fuller. He seems to equate the economic growth from 1810 to present with technology and intellect but it is entirely impossible without the near 1:1:1 increase in population, GDP, and therefore, energy consumption, that was available after the discovery of fossil fuel.
He spoke in a strange dialect. And understood the compounding of knowledge.

His 'growth from technology' starts with the 'deep-bellied' sailing ship invented in Thailand thousands of years ago.

He came out of a New England Transcendentalist family, and he was extremely 'mystical' but believed his insights had to be embodied in practical artifacts. Like Scheherazade_numbers.

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Which still doesn't address the density and storage problem of converting electricity to work in large farm, mining, construction machines. Our tractors will need some mighty long extension cords.
It is what it is, we'll deal with it or go down in flames.

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What will actually happen is that most people remaining will grow their own food by muscle power after the age of fossil fuel.
Else we will realize it's more efficient to grow food and smokables in LED light underground.

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