Absolutely true, it's only borderline cheap right now because we have invested trillions into the infrastructure to get at it - infrastructure which has gotten ever more complex to get at the harder to reach/extract stuff.
Some shale oil could cost more in energy to get out that it would provide, ironically we still do it because the energy we use to get it out is cheap and oil is relatively expensive.
F*** all of these a-holes, see if they fall for it twice, aim for a more important leader next time.
"We can't. Without that much free energy it's not possible to sustain our current technology level. Renewables just aren't enough and never will."
Total nonsense, the sun can power our civilisation just by covering a small chunk of the Sahara or roofs worldwide.
http://www.greenpeace.org/inte...
This much area needed for solar to power the world:
http://landartgenerator.org/bl...
" I don't think people realize that it would require 100% of an entire day's worth of clear-sky production of their $20,000 5 KW rooftop solar system to not-quite replace 1 single gallon of gasoline. "
If cars didn't weight 2-ton because people have a propensity to crash them, then your statement wouldn't need to be true. Perhaps autonomous cars will change that.
A pushbike weighs 10kg, an simple electric bike - about 20kg.
Everybody here is fixated on oil to the point of not discussing anything much else.
Windmills, watermills, these are what started the industrial revolution and would likely be useful a 2nd time round. Watermills and windmills are simple tech that can be built from wood and stone. I expect we'd go also back to using horses a lot if our current system collapsed. Modern electronic technology is not built to last, they wouldn't much left of it working after a couple of decades.
Too many people here seem to think mad max is a documentary.
0.5% efficiency loss per year, that means they will still be outputting 50% after 100 years. Inverters don't last long though.
I assumed this was coming from the Internet Radio stations saying "Hey, how is it fair that we have to pay royalties and those guys don't?"
Understood. No human empathy for wrong gender, wrong race. Thanks for making it so clear what kind of person you are.
Aliasing of fonts on a 1080p screen makes text look grey, 4k allows larger fonts to be used with a smaller proportion of the pixels being grey. The result is nicer blacker fonts and more intricate fonts can be used.
Many non-aliased fonts look dreadful - blocky and very badly proportioned, again they would look far better scaled on a higher resolution screen.
Simply shrinking the text with the screen is not the right thing to do.
They might point out that 78 + 12 = 90 and ask what happened to the other 10%
No one should vote for me for President either.
Bush was governor of one of the the largest states. Governors balance budgets and oversee the government of their states. But I'm not for Bush. We've had too many Bushs and Clintons already. Scott Walker is clearly better than Bush. Even Chris Christie is better.
Rand Paul is leading on getting rid of mandatory prison sentences. He crafted a balanced budget plan a couple years ago. He's a clear leader. But he has a similar accomplishment issue to Hillary.
Unlike Rand Paul, Hillary has had many many years to accomplish something important in several different roles.
Certain people get a pass. That's the real explanation. That's why it doesn't matter in Hillary's case.
When all your eggs are in one basket, you protect the basket, regardless of how many monsters are hiding there behind the eggs.
Government control of health care is the first thing that comes to mind.
It's because neither one of them has much of a resume. What else is there to say about Hillary?
What else was there to say about Obama? He was running as the first black President. No one was going to say he isn't black.
Maybe we can choose a President based on something more substantial this time. If we do it will be really hard for Hillary to win because she has no prominent achievements.
"Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core." -- Hannah Arendt.
