See my long note on your other post. Drilling in Alaska as opposed to a developing nation with no regulations on drilling is overall better for the planet. The drilling will happen no matter what, it’s just a matter of where it will happen.
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They’re both bad. One is not worse than the other. Instead of only thinking about where to drill, why not think about new sustainable solutions? (I’m not talking about batteries or anything else either), this is me saying this as if my moms hometown in Iran hasn’t been drilled into for oil since 1901
And I’m not an expert or am knowledgeable on any of the science stuff, so i apologize for how dumb I may sound
No you definitely don’t sound dumb. The issue is that we need energy now, and fossil fuels are going to continue being used until we have the infrastructure for alternative sources. In short, our best alternative solution to fossil fuels is nuclear energy, which unfortunately has been politicized because people think it’s “dangerous” (it’s not). Wind/solar/hydro aren’t reliable enough to make up our base load which is why we still rely heavily on fossil fuels. Switching to nuclear could resolve all of these issues were discussing. I think if you continue going down the bitcoin rabbit hole you will find you naturally fall down the energy rabbit hole because of bitcoins relationship with energy. That’s how i gained an understanding of energy and the grid.
I think #[5] does a great job on his podcast having guests on that are knowledgeable in energy. This is one of my favorite episodes: https://fountain.fm/episode/13181642640
And here’s another on nuclear: https://fountain.fm/episode/13244552894
And here’s a couple on how bitcoin helps fix this:
Also, heres a good “debate” on climate change: https://fountain.fm/episode/11816407616
Can confirm, these were great episodes
And bringing up the “who’s right wrong”… I was so focused on the topic of oil/Alaska that I didn’t even mention nuclear. So I was wrong there
These were GREAT episodes and nuclear is the future!
Agreed!!
Nuclear is such an important option that never gets the attention or care. I agree it’s nearly impossible to stop using fossil fuels, I have to use it everyday at work.
What’s not impossible is investing more in viable options like nuclear instead of letting the fossil fuel industry run the show as they profit on us not being able to use anything else.
That’s a great point. And we will probably ALWAYS use oil/fossil fuels to some degree. I’m sure there will be instances when it makes more sense to use them, but it will be a tiny fraction of our overall energy use
💯 It’s tragic we didn’t build out our nuclear capacity to anywhere close to what we needed. The cost of building wind and solar on the scale that nuclear can achieve is orders of magnitude higher.
The oil cartel will burn down the world before letting nuclear proliferate.
They will try
But we will defeat them first
US military complex uses 1M barrels of oil a day. In order to ensure cheap oil, they will start any wars anytime any day. Do you think you can stop them?
Only bitcoin can fix this.
You can’t even stop the war in Ukraine and that is not even our military up front. 😆
If they had they’re way, they would send the troops there. We have stopped that. When MSNBC has to do a hit piece on the #RageAgaisntTheWarMachine protest, we’re winning
Support is plumemetting. Bitch McConnel has to say how we need to convince the American ppl that the war is worth supporting. He’s suppose to represent the ppl, so he showed his hand
Winning doesn’t always mean complete destruction. Look at the Viet Cong, Mujahideen, Sade Brigade, etc
High time preference wants to win a battle today and risk losing the war
Low time preference understands that you can lose every battle and win the war
If the U.S. started switching to a nuclear based grid, the oil would become much cheaper for the military to use because there wouldn’t be as much demand
It would have been cheaper for the USG to have bought all of Iraq’s oil than it was for what they spent on gas alone during the Iraq war
The war wasn’t about oil or keeping it cheap. If anything, it was to make it expensive for the oil companies and to keep OPEC happy and in line
WTF does the US military care about prices?!
Thank you for the resources as well and taking the time. You always have the resources for me to learn more and I appreciate you for always helping me
My only problem with #[4] on this topic is that he doesn’t seem to understand how a nuclear plant could be insured without a government
“It’s too expensive to insure”. Yes, under the current system that has a government “backing” it with no cash in reserves to insure it. They’ll just print it.
Under a Bitcoin Standard, insurance companies would set the regulations to make a nuclear plant safe and insurable. I don’t know why he doesn’t seem to be able to make that leap.
Everything is about trade offs. Technologically, we cannot eliminate oil/fossil fuels without having devastating results for humanity, at least until technology improves
If only there was an incredibly safe form of energy that produced almost magical amounts of power at a shockingly low price without massive amounts of waste or CO2.
