tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post4727211407678585938..comments2024-03-24T11:01:27.668-04:00Comments on Resource Insights: Do we have too much energy?Kurt Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-84279141545371629472008-11-16T11:58:00.000-05:002008-11-16T11:58:00.000-05:00your point of view is very original. i always thou...your point of view is very original. i always thought there is not enough energy for all people. yet we still depend on other species and our knowledge will make colonization of other planets possible in the distant future.and that needs energy. although we may have too much energy, the problem is how we use it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-82397921489087204672008-03-17T01:27:00.000-04:002008-03-17T01:27:00.000-04:00Back in the petroleum shortages of the 1970's, I u...Back in the petroleum shortages of the 1970's, I used to maintain that we indeed had an "energy crisis". But that the "crisis" was not that we didn't have enough energy, it was that we were using too much energy. Our goal, then and now, should be to use much less energy.<BR/><BR/>I have always feared the future posited by some cornucopians where fusion (or some other heretofore unknown energy source) provided our civilization with "unlimited" energy. There is little more frightening than the thought of our culture with "unlimited" energy. We could then do "unlimited" damage to our biosphere and almost certainly kill ourselves off quite quickly.Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02893534274420487455noreply@blogger.com