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Originally Posted by aerohead
You've just purchased a Model T Ford.
There are no paved roads.
There's no such thing as a gasoline filling station.
There is nothing to suggest that automobiles will achieve any market penetration in the transportation sector.
None of these huge problems have been resolved.
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All the advancements of the last 100 years are the product of super cheap, super dense embodied fossil energy. This was a one time energy bonanza which will never again be repeated. It has allowed human civilization to balloon far beyond the carrying capacity that will remain after we are relegated to whatever we can get out of solar panels.
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Things will be much smaller and simpler in the future after the carbon pulse.
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