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Realistically, what could we do today if we had a massive amount of energy/electricity?
- Thread starter Lord of the Large Pants
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I read in some science article that charging a giant ring made of a superconducting material could make it into a "stargate", IIRC.
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Literally everything. Everything would last longer because higher quality materials would be cheaper. All vehicles would be zero pollution and running on ethanol fuel made from a certain sort of grass, using cheap-ass lithium batteries, biodiesel, etc. Good-quality food would be cheaper since greenhouses, hydroponics, fertilizer, etc. would be feasible to implement on a mass scale for practically every crop. There would be no water crises because we'd be desalinating seawater on a massive scale. Recycling would be almost 100% efficient. Carbon? Who cares, it would be cheap to sequester or convert it into something else. We'd probably be saving even more energy because we'd have mass-produced superconductors that only need cheap liquid nitrogen to cool.
One of the biggest redpills is when you realize these simple scientific facts, yet we're still told over and over how we're gonna die from climate change unless we live in tiny pods, eat bugs, and ride bicycles. Our elite would rather make us into glorified slaves than just spend like 5% of the GDP (about what was spent on the Apollo Program BTW) on building new nuclear power plants/actually investing in storage for renewable energy. Like the US has given 200 billion dollars to Ukraine this past year, so using the overbudget, outdated (by modern standards) Vogtle nuclear plant in Georgia as a baseline, we could've built about 7 nuclear power plants for that money, adding 15.6 GW to the power supply, or about 136 terawatt-hours. Speaking of Ukraine, that was the energy consumption of the entire Ukraine--tens of millions of people and lots of heavy industry--back in 2008.
The entire climate crisis and most environmental crises in general are nothing but manufactured crises to increase the power of the elite. That is why we do not have energy abundance in society and never will, at least until it comes time for our elite to save us from the climate crisis they themselves created (just like their Pharma companies and BASED politicians saved us from the pandemic).
One of the biggest redpills is when you realize these simple scientific facts, yet we're still told over and over how we're gonna die from climate change unless we live in tiny pods, eat bugs, and ride bicycles. Our elite would rather make us into glorified slaves than just spend like 5% of the GDP (about what was spent on the Apollo Program BTW) on building new nuclear power plants/actually investing in storage for renewable energy. Like the US has given 200 billion dollars to Ukraine this past year, so using the overbudget, outdated (by modern standards) Vogtle nuclear plant in Georgia as a baseline, we could've built about 7 nuclear power plants for that money, adding 15.6 GW to the power supply, or about 136 terawatt-hours. Speaking of Ukraine, that was the energy consumption of the entire Ukraine--tens of millions of people and lots of heavy industry--back in 2008.
The entire climate crisis and most environmental crises in general are nothing but manufactured crises to increase the power of the elite. That is why we do not have energy abundance in society and never will, at least until it comes time for our elite to save us from the climate crisis they themselves created (just like their Pharma companies and BASED politicians saved us from the pandemic).
Every naturally occuring element can. Even uranium. Everyone talks about asteroid mining as revolutionizing mining, but if you look at the capital inputs, it's at best going to be no better than just filtering it from seawater, especially since we already have the technology to do that. The big ones people talk about are lithium and gold in seawater. Lithium because it's relatively concentrated in saltwater, gold because it's got a high price so is viable to recover. But I do like mining uranium from seawater. It almost totally avoids all the horrifying problems associated with uranium mining like the sky-high rates of lung cancer or long-term land pollution.
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