I hear whatever's left of AT&T's telegraph operation can be had for a steal and is sure to take off like a rocket any time now.

Do ... you have even the slightest idea what you mean by that, lol?

Geothermal is already workable. Ask the people in Iceland where it accounts for over of the country's power generation. The reason it's not everywhere is that unless you live next to a volcano or other geological features that put out enough heat, there's no way to tap into it other than transmitting the power from those places. Making it even more efficient or increasing the output are certainly things we should do as well, but geothermal is already working now. I like it better than solar or wind because the power generated doesn't fluctuate like those others do and hence there's less reliance on batteries if the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing.

The burned out hard drives and power supplies will replace themselves?

Yeah I remember the convenience of my dad handing over his credit card in the early 90s and having the clerk run it through those embosser/carbon paper things.

And I'm sure everyone over 50 who used to have a summer job at the amusement park remembers the fun of dealing with all those paper slips and only actually getting paid after the physical paperwork got reconciled.

I hired a plumber a few years back to change out some valves and pipes that he could do with the stock out of his truck in 90 minutes that would have taken me two days of home depot runs.

After the job, he took out his tablet, typed in all the parts he used, logged his time, and had me tap my credit card. I get an email receipt, he gets paid for the job his apprentice gets his hours logged, and neither he, his boss, nor I have to think about it anymore.

This is in contrast to the guy who blows out my sprinklers for the winter. He comes with the big compressor. Does his thing for 15 minutes and leaves. Then a week later I get a bill in the mail and am expected to mail a paper check.

Trades are as affected as they want to be.

About 10 or 15 years ago, one of my employer's suppliers of electrical and hvac stuff was still an old timer who sent around paper catalogs and did ordering by phone.

Don't know if he's still around but I'm pretty sure he or whoever is running his outfit isn't doing it that way anymore and I'm also sure that the sprinkler guy isn't going to be doing it that way for my longer either.

You have to admit; it's a fun thought experiment.

We don't know we will find such a method. But let's say we do. Just for the sake of the thought experiment. Imagine how different people will react. Some will have their favorite cause just plain ... taken away.

yes, actually yes. I would do it differently though, I would use sodium and burn it in water to create the particulate matter, this would accomplish more than one goal, it would block a percentage point of the Solar energy and would percipitate into the ocean water deacidifying it. If done xorrectly, maybe as NaK alloy it can also be used to generate power while burning in water.

no, the goal is keeping power and gaining glory by restoring the old ussr back and then some. The fact that it is done by using the criminal element as well as the regular army just shows how unprepared the dictator is.

... it would certainly put the hyperventilation industry out of business, to just ... you know ... cool things off a bit.

We can't have that!!

Last night, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station fulfilled the five-year plan for energy production in 46 microseconds!

It ain't the amount of energy or the peak power that matters. It's having it available when needed. Sometimes the wind don't blow and the sun don't shine, but molecules always oxidize and uranium atoms always split.

I'd love to know how he plans to power the country during a windless anticyclonic night then. Batteries? Hydro? Dont make me laugh.

...wind is only providing 8gw, ccgt is providing 13. Nature is fickle. The sort of people who think base load generation wont be required in the future are deluded.

the Germans occupied Ukraine, actually occupied the house of one of my grandfather. What is your stupid point?

You're pretending there's a good option on the table. There isn't one.

Option 1 is make lots of noise about defending democracy while half assesly egging along an overt proxy war with a nuclear armed adversary, being prosecuted by a country just as crooked as that adversary (sharing centuries of cultural ties with it), just more broke.

Option 2 is accepting that that aforementioned nuclear armed adversary actually achieved military conquest over some territory already (11 years ago) and exercises de facto control of some more, thereby acknowledging that the taboo on military conquest that the west has pretended to espouse over the last 80 years, has for the past decade plus been more pretense than something we will die for. Thereby removing some disincentive for other potential aggressors elsewhere to attack our nominal allies.

Option 3 is to pretend that no such tradeoff between bad options exists and look like a fucking fool to anyone out there without qualms about sending their boys into the meat grinder pro patria mori. And those people and places exist and they are watching. See downsides of option 2 above.