Author Topic: Utopia Culture  (Read 601 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Online Michael Hardner

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12477
Utopia Culture
« on: December 12, 2022, 10:32:56 am »
Free energy everyone
Star Trek has arrived IRL

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/politics/nuclear-fusion-energy-us-scientists-climate/index.html

Tech change so massive it bootstraps social change.

Alberta's #1 industry will go from tar to yoga.

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

Like Like x 1 View List

Offline waldo

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 8715
Re: Utopia Culture
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2022, 12:35:27 pm »
Free energy everyone

Alberta's #1 industry will go from tar to yoga.

clean energy - commercial viability when? Good thing Alberta has diversified from its reliance on fossil-fuels... and that Sovereignty Act from Premier Smith & the 'Calgary FoolSchool' with its accompanying separation threat & presumptive build pipelines anywhere thingee - you betcha!

Offline wilber

  • Administrator
  • Full Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9120
Re: Utopia Culture
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2022, 01:12:37 pm »
Free energy everyone
Star Trek has arrived IRL

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/politics/nuclear-fusion-energy-us-scientists-climate/index.html

Tech change so massive it bootstraps social change.

Alberta's #1 industry will go from tar to yoga.

Alberta won't be suffering anytime soon. This is so far from a practical system it will be decades before it can make any difference. Good to see some real progress though.
"Never trust a man without a single redeeming vice" WSC

Offline Black Dog

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9078
  • Location: Deathbridge
Re: Utopia Culture
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2022, 02:03:29 pm »
Alberta won't be suffering anytime soon. This is so far from a practical system it will be decades before it can make any difference. Good to see some real progress though.

We will, just not because of this.

Online Michael Hardner

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12477
Re: Utopia Culture
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2022, 02:07:18 pm »
clean energy - commercial viability when? Good thing Alberta has diversified from its reliance on fossil-fuels... and that Sovereignty Act from Premier Smith & the 'Calgary FoolSchool' with its accompanying separation threat & presumptive build pipelines anywhere thingee - you betcha!

Viability maybe in a generation ?

Alberta needs scientists to save its ass, it seems.

Online Michael Hardner

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12477
Re: Utopia Culture
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2022, 02:08:01 pm »
Alberta won't be suffering anytime soon. This is so far from a practical system it will be decades before it can make any difference. Good to see some real progress though.

If we find out that the economy will be completely made over inside of 50 years should we plan for that ?

Offline wilber

  • Administrator
  • Full Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9120
Re: Utopia Culture
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2022, 02:35:22 pm »
If we find out that the economy will be completely made over inside of 50 years should we plan for that ?

It will be made over but we don't know how. We sure can't plan for a concept that has no timeline and may not even be practical even if it can be done experimentally. I'm not particularly worried about Alberta, it will manage somehow but the the whole country has to plan for lost oil and gas revenues, not just Alberta.
"Never trust a man without a single redeeming vice" WSC

Offline Queefer Sutherland

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10191
Re: Utopia Culture
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2022, 03:48:44 pm »
This is what they said about nuclear energy.  Somebody will find some reason to hate on this
"Nipples is one of the great minds of our time!" - Bubbermiley
Dumb Dumb x 1 View List

Online Michael Hardner

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12477
Re: Utopia Culture
« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2022, 03:58:00 pm »
It will be made over but we don't know how. We sure can't plan for a concept that has no timeline and may not even be practical even if it can be done experimentally. I'm not particularly worried about Alberta, it will manage somehow but the the whole country has to plan for lost oil and gas revenues, not just Alberta.

The overall benefit to the economy would be immeasurable. 

Offline wilber

  • Administrator
  • Full Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9120
Re: Utopia Culture
« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2022, 04:06:41 pm »
The overall benefit to the economy would be immeasurable.

Only if it can be made into a practical means of generating electricity.
"Never trust a man without a single redeeming vice" WSC
Winner Winner x 1 View List

Offline Squidward von Squidderson

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5630
Re: Utopia Culture
« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2022, 07:09:03 pm »
This is what they said about nuclear energy.  Somebody will find some reason to hate on this

You don’t know about nuclear waste?  Or the potential for disaster around a nuclear reactor?  Are you really that ignorant?

Offline Spike The Hike Shady

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9013
Re: Utopia Culture
« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2022, 07:15:22 pm »
Viability maybe in a generation ?

Alberta needs scientists to save its ass, it seems.
Maybe sooner than that.  I can’t see why cities couldn’t be powered sooner than later with this technology.  Obviously power on more of a micro level would be much farther away.
Dumb Dumb x 1 View List

Offline Spike The Hike Shady

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9013
Re: Utopia Culture
« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2022, 07:18:28 pm »
This is what they said about nuclear energy.  Somebody will find some reason to hate on this
Exactly.  Leftists have successfully frightened people into thinking nuclear power is that of the 1960s.  It’s much safer and completely emissions free, and could be used as a bridge.  But they’re only interested in reducing emissions their way.

Offline Spike The Hike Shady

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 9013
Re: Utopia Culture
« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2022, 07:20:03 pm »
Viability maybe in a generation ?

Alberta needs scientists to save its ass, it seems.
You need to stop worrying about Alberta and more so of the Middle East.
Like Like x 1 View List

Online Michael Hardner

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12477
Re: Utopia Culture
« Reply #14 on: December 12, 2022, 08:41:34 pm »
You need to stop worrying about Alberta and more so of the Middle East.

I'm one of the few who dares to say something about Alberta.  As opposed to Albertans who never shut up about Ontario and Quebec