http://gigaom.com/2012/03/09/my-great-hope-for-the-energy-future/ Wed, 22 May 2013 22:26:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2012/03/09/my-great-hope-for-the-energy-future/#comment-826760 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:13:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=496582#comment-826760 I don’t see the increasing goats and chickens nor the declining identity theft but otherwise agree with everything. Thank you for the great blog.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/03/09/my-great-hope-for-the-energy-future/#comment-823286 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:39:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=496582#comment-823286 Hhey! What I can tell is that people are actually st**id. (In the past they had to be quite wittier to survive; The question is do they have the “right” to go on within the evolution tree – probably not?!) You cannot change them quickly. They WILL HAVE TO adapt. No VOLUNTARISM, forget that. They are too st**id for that. Believe me, I experienced real communism. That’s exactly what happened. The “homo sapiens” now only WILL HAVE TO adapt if the gasoline price will quadriple and they won’t be able to pay much of the comfort. That’s on course now. And look around -more and more of them adapt. Let’s hope it will be spread over longer period of time and not spiking in a collapse. The other alternative is a technology breakthrough as cold fusion or LENR (about 6 sources including MIT, NASA kind of declared within the last year that Fleischmann-Pons were right and you CAN get nuclear reactions happening at 200degc.)

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/03/09/my-great-hope-for-the-energy-future/#comment-818006 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:49:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=496582#comment-818006 In your first post, you used an erroneously high estimate of growth. According to Diamandis’s TED slide, incomes has tripled in the last 100 year. That implies a 1,11% growth rate in the past booming years. Of course the rest is just inflation.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/03/09/my-great-hope-for-the-energy-future/#comment-817995 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:03:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=496582#comment-817995 Did this calculation: one day at a movie theater compared with home theater. One movie theater: 2000 moviegoers, 7 mile travel each, $0.20/mile gasoline (20mpg) = $2800/700gallons gasoline. Hometheater first run movie: no gasoline. Content that can be digitally delivered is low hanging fruit. Painting roofs white, insulating walls, etc. There’s lots of low-hanging fruit for energy improvement with no lifestyle compromises (actually lifestyle improvements). Appreciate the gravity of the energy situation and believe the financial opportunities will attract the finest tech attention. And as you point out we have a plentiful energy source – just look up.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/03/09/my-great-hope-for-the-energy-future/#comment-817574 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:17:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=496582#comment-817574 Currently reading “Abundance” by Peter Diamandis. Sounds like you need to read it too.

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