Big Think

Raymond Zugel on January 10, 2008, 8:44 AM

All of this is positive but it does not include one of the more important aspects — our way of life. We need to look forward to more scarce resources and understand how that could/will change our way of life and how we will adjust.

Raymond Zugel on January 10, 2008, 1:44 PM

All of this is positive but it does not include one of the more important aspects — our way of life. We need to look forward to more scarce resources and understand how that could/will change our way of life and how we will adjust.

Joseph Mifsud on March 9, 2008, 5:05 PM

We should get off oil.

Ethanol may offer some answers but does not look like a complete solution. Not even close.

Joseph Mifsud on March 9, 2008, 9:05 PM

We should get off oil.

Ethanol may offer some answers but does not look like a complete solution. Not even close.

Henrik Petaisto on May 24, 2008, 8:21 AM

Cellulose ethanol is not a sustainable alternative for oil. It drives up the food prices and is inefficient to produce.

Henrik Petaisto on May 24, 2008, 12:21 PM

Cellulose ethanol is not a sustainable alternative for oil. It drives up the food prices and is inefficient to produce.

tim hall on April 25, 2009, 12:58 AM

I am with Raymond on this issue. We live like pigs. We could cut our consuption in half in the U.S. if we started thinking about conservation more seriously. I heard of places in  Europe where the hall lights in their hotels were on motion sensors. The light only comes on when you enter the hall. There is something about a single person traveling from point A to point B packing 6000 pounds of steel that just does not sound intelligent. Building a defence system that can crush the world a hundred times over seems like a waste of energy. Especialy if that nation has over 75% of the most powerful allies. I think we are being scammed. Walmarts have an eight inch outer concrete wall construction with an R rating of about two. At least Koals has enough economical knowledge to add an R 13 to the inside of that concrete. We still heat water in semi insulated metal tanks. Heat on demand technology has been around for thirty years. Does anybody have a take on the new printable solar panels? How many kilowatts they are capable of producing and how long they last? I know the printing press is very expensive. There is one somewhere in Texas. Should we be building windmill factories in Africa so those folks can better provide for themselves or should we just allow the Chinese to make slaves out of them within ten years? Let’s see, we could build windmills in Africa, sell them all over the world and make a load of money. Hey, that might jumpstart industry in Africa.