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Old 03-29-2018, 10:38 PM   #1233 (permalink)
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And even if you successfully replace all electricity, this is only 20-30% of all embodied energy we use to have this life style.
There's the other entire side of the equation. Vertical farms and wind powered sailing ships, houses that grow from a bio-engineered seed in five years, an accountable [smirk] AI for President of the World — any number of black swan events could make a better ROI.
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