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The Exile II said:
I think solar will overtake wind once the storage capacity allows it. Wind is just too impactful on everything around it. If you're talking a thousand foot turbine (they're coming) an top of a two thousand foot hill, it's in everyone's back yard in a twenty mile radius.

One of the counties where I work are already making noises about being at saturation point.
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Yep. That's why most of it is offshore, and should stay there. Not that offshore is without it's issues either mind, but the shallow continental shelf we have is perfect for it.

Solar is part of the future but the panels are sill expensive and quite inefficient, and we're aren't blessed with constant, predictable sunshine, though any light will do up to a point.

The short of it is that all energy has an impact. And we all use a lot of it.
 
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I have faith in science generally to keep humanity going. I have a sense there are answers to be found yet to the challenges of climate change. Carbon capture technology is an example. I believe other things will come along that add up to an answer. Blind faith maybe. But I want to be an optimist here. I dont really see a doomsday scenario here. Nor do I with AI, for example.

The only certain doomsday scenario, I think, is that the universe is dying. It will cease to exist at all. Trillions of years away, but a certainty. So humanity is goosed in the really long term. We are into the last 10% of star creation that the universe has to offer. I sometimes think about this. Nothingness. Nobody to remember humanity. It will be as if none of us ever existed, no life, nothing.
 
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FellTop said:
I have faith in science generally to keep humanity going. I have a sense there are answers to be found yet to the challenges of climate change. Carbon capture technology is an example. I believe other things will come along that add up to an answer. Blind faith maybe. But I want to be an optimist here. I dont really see a doomsday scenario here. Nor do I with AI, for example.

The only certain doomsday scenario, I think, is that the universe is dying. It will cease to exist at all. Trillions of years away, but a certainty. So humanity is goosed in the really long term. We are into the last 10% of star creation that the universe has to offer. I sometimes think about this. Nothingness. Nobody to remember humanity. It will be as if none of us ever existed, no life, nothing.
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Is it still worth having the match Monday?
 
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FellTop said:
I have faith in science generally to keep humanity going. I have a sense there are answers to be found yet to the challenges of climate change. Carbon capture technology is an example. I believe other things will come along that add up to an answer. Blind faith maybe. But I want to be an optimist here. I dont really see a doomsday scenario here. Nor do I with AI, for example.

The only certain doomsday scenario, I think, is that the universe is dying. It will cease to exist at all. Trillions of years away, but a certainty. So humanity is goosed in the really long term. We are into the last 10% of star creation that the universe has to offer. I sometimes think about this. Nothingness. Nobody to remember humanity. It will be as if none of us ever existed, no life, nothing.
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At least tell us how many trillions, I need to know how much beer to get in
 
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rooch 3 said:
Is it still worth having the match Monday?
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Indeed, everything ends, even the universe.
However, what happens next ? Another universe will be created. An infinity of universes indeed.
I bet another sunderland will be around ... winning trophys in abundance ... even getting into premier league playoffs and thrashing Middlesbrough in a playoff final.
Hopefully we won't have to wait till then.
 
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FellTop said:
I have faith in science generally to keep humanity going. I have a sense there are answers to be found yet to the challenges of climate change. Carbon capture technology is an example. I believe other things will come along that add up to an answer. Blind faith maybe. But I want to be an optimist here. I dont really see a doomsday scenario here. Nor do I with AI, for example.

The only certain doomsday scenario, I think, is that the universe is dying. It will cease to exist at all. Trillions of years away, but a certainty. So humanity is goosed in the really long term. We are into the last 10% of star creation that the universe has to offer. I sometimes think about this. Nothingness. Nobody to remember humanity. It will be as if none of us ever existed, no life, nothing.
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Yes, the bigger truth is certainly that we are a tiny micro second of time in the bigger picture.

And a similar truth is that, for all the certainty and perfect predictions of the future delivered, ( often in the name of raiding your wallet), there is a great deal more that we don't know than we do or ever will know.

I like to think of what would a group of the wise and good would have said if, say a hundred years ago, they were asked to deliver a prediction about the world in 2023. They would have stood in a world where horses were still the main form of transport for most, Germany was on it's knees after a ruinous and " final" war, hi tech was radio, where you could have the BBC or the BBC, and a myriad other aspects of life continued which owed their origin to the 19th century or even earlier.

As you say, God Himself only knows what will come this century. But I think I'm relieved I won't get to see a lot of it!
 
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