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Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 week agoWhen fossil fuels are out of the equation, civilization will have to learn to live on a roughly 3 to 1 EROEI as opposed to the 100:1 of the prewar period and the roughly 20:1 today.
Your surplus energy decides your civilizational metabolic rate and is a key pillar of what is possible. Are we building shit like this at 3:1? What are we giving up for it?
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
No, and we never will if the technology doesn’t improve. The carbon has to go, there’s no two ways about it
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
The carbon, or us has to go. If we couldn’t afford to not emit it in the first place during the years of plenty, there is zero chance of getting rid of it in the lean years.
Any carbon emitted is carbon we will have to try and live with.