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    - Return to the Middle Ages?

    Started by K-Dog Jul 28, 2024, 09:42 PM

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    K-Dog

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    Jul 28, 2024, 09:42 PM
    Seriously, a house of cards surrounds rich living.  There will be no supply chain to support gated neighborhood power and neighborhood AI.

    Once the diesel stops everything goes to shit, for rich and poor alike.  Money won't buy love or anything else.  The only thing to do will be to die.


    Remember Alice. 

    QuoteBut even if a windmill had a positive EROI?  SO WHAT?  Any contraption that generates electricity isn't worth a fig newton, because tractors, harvesters, logging and mining trucks and equipment, construction and road trucks, cranes, forklifts, 18-wheelers all run on diesel fuel.  Not electricity. The 8,000 parts of the windmill aren't going to arrive at the factory without trucks.  The wind mill isn't going to be moved to its destination without trucks.

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