Reply #33: You're kidding, right? [View All]

That diagram shows ???

It shows nothing about where the energy from renewables would flow, and it certainly doesn't back up your claim regarding resource availability. Likewise your assertion regarding the toxicity of lithium battery production. You made the claim that their production "requires a lot of energy- and produces highly toxic waste" then act like a link to a community group calling for greener products is a some sort of validation? Why do you want to waste your time that way?

I'm serious and not being snarky - do you understand our energy system at all? What I outlined in my last post isn't just my lunatic imaginings (although being on DUEE might not be the best way to demonstrate that), it is an outline of what is probably the consensus view among the top energy policy wonks in the country. Whether you approve of capitalism or not, I really don't give a damn, the fact is we have a true planetary emergency shaping up and changes are going to be taking place. If you prefer a world led by the Bush/Cheney's of this world, keep dicking around with visions of a utopian hunter-gatherer existence and those good ol' boys are going to carry the day. There is an alternative to fossils, but if even 'enlightened progressives' are too damned stupid to support it or even bother to educate themselves about it, then we are really and truly fucked.