Always has been. 🌎🧑🚀🔫👨🚀
On June 20, 1979, 32 solar water heating panels were placed on the roof of the West Wing. . . . At the dedication ceremony for the panels, President Carter said, “In the year 2000 this solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy… A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people”.[1]
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I think that a lucid analysis of this time period is to connect most of the current conflicts happening right now with a common thread of oil powers attempting one last desperate time to retain control over the geopolitical flow of power, I collectively call this global set of wars that has Ukraine at the focal point The Last Great Oil War.
Both russia and Ukraine are beginning to utilize electric dirt bikes on the frontline, this is especially remarkable for russia given that they are ostensibly an oil power that in my opinion launched the Ukraine War in large part in order to try to grasp a more decisive leverage over fossil fuels in the region as their perceived their power waning. To then turn around and start using electric vehicles on the frontline because they are the most efficient just seems symbolically like an indicator of how late we are in the fossil fuel era.
www.gearpatrol.com/motorcycles/usc-wolfstorm/
defensemirror.com/…/Kalashnikov_Testing_Stealth_C…
Tobberone@feddit.nu 1 day ago
As bad as things are, I’m still glad that the oil wars are driven by greed and not scarcity. Had the option been mad max things would have been so much more desperate, as things stand, a world with energy and hope is still an option.
pennomi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Easy to blow up an oil refinery compared to a field of solar panels. Solar is so obviously a strategic defense necessity.