That TED looks mighty interesting... though since my household only uses about 258 kw/h a month, I wonder if it would make sense for us.
The other people in the building, though... they might see some benefit. I'm amazed at how some people can use over 1,000 kw/hs when you're typically out of the house eight to nine hours a day. (As opposed to our household, where the wife and baby stay at home!)
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Originally Posted by IamIan
Thankfully .. the Population issues shows strong signs of , slowly correcting itself ... The net total rate of population increase has been on a decline for decades.
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70+ million a year is still a lot of new mouths to feed. The slowing, however, is perhaps indicative that we're reaching the energy limits of our civilization. The worry is if the decline that follows will be just as precipituous, and how many of us will survive the crash.
EDIT: WW3 will be a whimper... not a bang. Asymmetrical warfare with every man, woman and child out in the streets fighting with Molotovs and Kalashnikovs as the big governments try... and fail... to reassert their moral and authoritative ascendancy in thousands of bushfire revolutions across the globe.