The reason I ask is, I am now totally for a decentralized solar grid and a universal income, to middle class standards, which will of course continue to see exponential declines in cost. Basically you don’t have to spend much more then we already spend to make that happen.
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Energy is on a deflationary cost to near zero by the way. See Pereskovite solar cells.
I didn’t use to support this, because it wasn’t feasible. I think it is now or at least within ten years due to the logarithmic progression of known systems.
Nah, you can still be Republican and support such politics.
If anything your a centralist.
I think I am still a republican, who has adjusted to a new reality. You take different actions in a constrained economy then you do an abundant one. And we are entering an age of incredible abundance.
Did you guys know, the world population will likely peak at nine billion or so and then crash? I used to base my pessimism on an ever increasing population, whoops, wrong.
Turns out, if you educate women, they no longer want five kids, while dad is down at the local male drinking club. Weirdos.
When I post here, it is an avoidance therapy, I should be playing my guitar. But hey, why do cells communicate in neural network with ions? Bitches.
That bio electric net thing bugs me, eww and plasticity, kareepy. Might be the key to ageing though, so carry on.
being Republican, Liberal, etc doesn’t mean you agree with 100% of everything they say.
your allowed to have personal opinion on subjects you just generally agree with them.
and honestly the more republican, liberal willing to meet in the middle is what America needs.
How will you transport goods using solar power? How will you run the heavy machinery of industry on solar power?
I don’t mind the solar grid but am against the universal income. Republicans and democrats need to band together to brings jobs back from overseas and limit the amount of insourcing.
A universal income is setting up people on welfare to be poor so big corporations can send jobs overseas exploiting cheap labor as well as bringing in tech workers to replace American workers at a fraction of the cost. Millions of jobs have been lost because of this and it’s decimated the middle class as well as creating more people dependent on government.
Your positions sound more like Democrats just 12 years ago more than today’s progressives. One should go back and read some of then Senator Obama’s positions on insourcing and outsourcing and what it will and has done to the US economy.
Cheap labor is going to be the ai robot next door. You’re worried about hand out from the government and foreign workers while the real concern is skynet eating us.
Humanity is going to need to find meaning beyond menial labor for points.
Transport less goods. I ran into this earlier today:
If you hang around long enough I think you will see it. I was reading a article the other day which said that experiments with transmitting power to your house via plasma stream is going well. Think about it. There could be a time in the not so distant future where power transmission will be done without wires.
Batteries. Or more specifically for right now, solar and or wind in combination with cryogenic battery system.
Won’t need it, I will generate my own power.
Sorry, no bringing those jobs back, if they did come back they would be done by robots.
Universal income. That’s downright socialist wanting everyone to have a decent way of living.
Welcome to libdom.
Allan
Maybe instead of universal income, we could have robots produce sundries.
I’m all for the solar/wind route, especially if nuclear gets more love. Homes could have their own personal reactors in the ground providing safe, clean, reliable power.
Large scale energy storage has been solved. Cryogenic batteries. Not as efficient as it could be but it works.
