Vis a vis this excellent thread, I'd be interested in people's thoughts about a new video by Robert Murray Smith on "The Internet of Energy". This looks to me to be better than Tesla's technology, and in fact, a very significant advance for, especially, widespread solar. ken
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > As your analysis demonstrates, there's no warranty of any particular level > of insight that attaches to comments in this and similar fora. You are free > to leave when you like. > > Eric > > > On May 5, 2016, at 13:19, Che <comandantegri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Blaze Spinnaker < > blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> Fortunately, looks like LENR may not be needed to rescue the planet > >>> > >>> http://www.keith.seas.harvard.edu/blog-1/cheapsolarpower > >>> > >> > >> Indeed. If solar power will help humanity to squeak by, and LENR will > allow it to build out all kinds of military capabilities, solar power may > end up saving humanity where LENR would doom it. > >> > >> Eric > > * Dealing with an out-of-[democratic-]control Military-Police apparatus is > essentially a _political_ issue: generally only solved by class violence of > some degree. > > * Cold Fusion OTOH is a _technological_ issue: with a political-economic > social nature necessarily attached to it, after the fact. > > * These two issues do NOT easily conflate. Not in this (too-usual, > unfortunately) way. > > > And IMO it is one of the great failings of this and other fora that such a > basic understanding of fundamental societal relations is almost invariably > and essentially tossed aside -- in favor of the usual simplistic > understanding of how non-technological social issues actually operate. > (i.e. 'technology will save/doom us!!', yadda...) Technology, per se, *is > essentially NEUTRAL*. > > > >
