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Old 05-23-2018, 02:48 PM   #1834 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sendler
Please try to familiarize yourself with the scale of our energy consumption.... It just does not add up. By a factor of 10. This wishful thinking without ever running the numbers is impeding logical discussion of what really can be done to come down for a softer landing after liquid fuel leaves us.
I was bicycling along and a jacked-up pick'emup drove by 'rolling coal', and I thought "that's a bad state of tune". We are both part of the statistics.

Half of the problem is using Scott Adams-level persuasion techniques to shift public perception, not Google-style algorithmic manipulations.

The other half is getting the Boring Company to create [a] water[s] tunnel from the Pacific to Death Valley so 'Murica can live off that sweet, sweet Algal diesel.
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