OT: What if we live in a infinite resources world like in SE4?

[couslee]

I'll take that south pole acre, as long as it's not on an ice river. talk about solar power abilities. subterrainian living quarters are not hard to heat either. Esp with a full acre of windmills and solar panels. However, it would be a shame to ruin such a natural phenomon with human presence. I would rather see dommed oceanic technology persued. but that also could have it's bad effects. The problam is not with available resources, but the lazy and wastefull nature on mankind. And the only true unlimited supply of anything I have ever seen, is greed.
imo.

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Or, you could try a finite resource game

[ January 31, 2003, 19:36: Message edited by: couslee ]

[PvK]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
"I read somewhere that there is enough land right now on the earth to give every person on the face of the earth 1 acre of land."

Such studies ussually conviently ignore the land that is a hellhole or totally useless (or both).

Who wants dibs on that one acre near the south pole?

Phoenix-D

Or that we're already killing the planet with the amount of land we're occupying.

PvK

[Phoenix-D]

"I'll take that south pole acre, as long as it's not on an ice river. talk about solar power abilities."

Not really. You only have sun for half the year, and the sunlight you do get is much less intense than at the equator.

"I would rather see dommed oceanic technology persued. but that also could have it's bad effects."

Everything does. It's a matter of trade offs..and personally I don't think we'll see many of these. Too dangerous, and I doubt you find many people eager to live somewhere where they can't go outside.

Here's a neat (and somewhat disturbing) example of what kind of problems dommed habits would have. Except in reverse.

http://www.dur.ac.uk/paul.clark/crabvspipe.html

PvK: it's not so much the land we're occupying, it's what is being done to everything else.

Phoenix-D

[Instar]

theoretically, energy does equal matter, but you need such tremendous amounts of energy as to be impossible (with anything that we know of)
Solar power has several problems:
Clouds for one, also solar power is very costly and low yield power wise. I personally think that we could cut down greatly on oil use if we all had solar panels on our roofs, but it would be expensive. I like the idea of building more dams, but it damages rivers very badly. Its controversial. Wind power looks interesting, newer wind mills can make more power and are cheaper than ever.

[couslee]

Instar.... and then there is of course the giant buttered cat array.