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Old 01-02-2018, 03:08 PM   #687 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sendler
...it cannot power a civilization. Not this one.
There's your problem. The 100x leverage they got by drilling for oil that didn't just bubble up out of the ground fast enough produced an infrastructure no longer fit for purpose. Bucky Fuller told us this in the 1970s (if not the 1920s ).

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All of this technology works fine if the population was 1/5th and people grew most of their own food/ biomass heat. And [et cetera]
Double the efficiency of the collective effort, and we can sustain the present population at an even higher standard.
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