I agree Bob, the world is not managed in order to increase everyone's
benefit. Jed tends to be an optimist about the future while I and
apparently you as well are more of a realist. The world is in a mess.
The West has created an unstable and unsustainable economic structure
and many parts of the world are being threatened by religious
insanity. Add something so unexpected, uncontrolled, and threatening
to the production of oil, coal, and uranium as is LENR, we can expect
the worst possible outcome. For example, although the US is self-
sufficient in energy, the cost is controlled by the world market. If
the cost goes down, the profit goes down and the loans supporting the
infrastructure cannot be paid, resulting in massive default. The
system is already saturated with such bad debt.
Meanwhile, China is limited by how fast she can build energy
generators and by availability of water. If she can out produce us
now, just think what she can do with unlimited energy. In the future,
she will be selling to her own people for prices we can not afford,
resulting in shortages and a lower standard of living in the West. I
raise these issues because unless the West finds an intelligent way to
respond to this situation, we in the West will be in bad shape. Unless
the real threat is acknowledge, no effort will be made to find a
solution until it is too late, as is typical of how the West reacts.
Simply pretending all will work out is not a solution.
Ed
On Sep 23, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Rob Dingemans wrote:
Dear Jed,
On 23-9-2013 20:13, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Furthermore, decreasing the cost of energy is likely to improve
first world economies sooner than it improves third world countries
or China, since we have more high tech, we have more ways to grow
the economy, and we import more energy per capita than they do.
Lower energy costs would be a tremendous boon to Japan, because
they are closing down all of the nuclear power plants.
You would be right if the focus of the ones in charge were to be on
lowering energy cost and gaining a higher standard of living for ALL
people.
However I strongly doubt if that is what their real intention is.
I tend to agree with Alain and Edmund's (probably also Peter
Gluck's) perception of how the world is "managed".
Kind regards,
Rob
