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HarlechMan on scored.co
1 month ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)1 child
Betting on space mining actually being economical in 20 years is retarded. We're not building a space elevator any time soon. The biggest issue we have anyway isn't so much that there isn't enough copper in the solar system, but that our energy stores generally are already tanking when it comes to energy return on investment. Right now the only way to get more copper, lithium, etc. is to burn a hell of a lot of diesel fuel to run mining trucks, drill rigs, and so on.
Global oil production has been bouncing around the same levels for nearly a decade now. We can produce more but it is vastly more expensive than in the past, and that just basically kicks the can down the road. Nuclear is the only real replacement energy source, but you run into the problem of fuels. Nuclear can keep your lights on but it's not fueling that mining equipment, nor the transportation without completely replacing tremendous parts of our logistics infrastructure.
Fossil fuels were a gift, and we need to use that to bootstrap us up into a more long term nuclear/solar future. Instead we are using that boon to create infinite blacks and pajeets, not to mention a sea of consumer garbage.
> Right now the only way to get more copper, lithium, etc. is to burn a hell of a lot of diesel fuel to run mining trucks, drill rigs, and so on.
Exactly. It would be more "carbon-neutral" to not pursue EVs at all than to burn all these fuels mining for the resources, let alone actually assembling the damn things.
> Instead we are using that boon to create infinite blacks and pajeets, not to mention a sea of consumer garbage.
Agreed. We're doing it all wrong, yet ZOG cheers and subsidizes it all.
Global oil production has been bouncing around the same levels for nearly a decade now. We can produce more but it is vastly more expensive than in the past, and that just basically kicks the can down the road. Nuclear is the only real replacement energy source, but you run into the problem of fuels. Nuclear can keep your lights on but it's not fueling that mining equipment, nor the transportation without completely replacing tremendous parts of our logistics infrastructure.
Fossil fuels were a gift, and we need to use that to bootstrap us up into a more long term nuclear/solar future. Instead we are using that boon to create infinite blacks and pajeets, not to mention a sea of consumer garbage.
Exactly. It would be more "carbon-neutral" to not pursue EVs at all than to burn all these fuels mining for the resources, let alone actually assembling the damn things.
> Instead we are using that boon to create infinite blacks and pajeets, not to mention a sea of consumer garbage.
Agreed. We're doing it all wrong, yet ZOG cheers and subsidizes it all.