tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post8184709369446650817..comments2024-03-24T11:01:27.668-04:00Comments on Resource Insights: Wireless charging: A colossal waste of energyKurt Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-58518874856260240962020-08-12T14:42:16.437-04:002020-08-12T14:42:16.437-04:00In response to Robin, I would note that wind and s...In response to Robin, I would note that wind and solar energy could be construed as ambient sources of energy. But nothiing is cheaper than energy efficiency, which is easier, faster and cheaper [also often permanent] than any other energy source, including the renewables. <br />The mean temperature of space is about 3 kelvin, equivalent to 3ÂșC above absolute zero, is irrelevent as far as receiving electromagnetic radiation. After all, that doesn't stop us from using the Sun for almost all our current [wind] and remote [fossil fuel] energy sources. But The cosmic background microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang can only be detected with seriously big radiotelescopes, often based above the atmosphere, many, many orders of magnitude less intense than our nearby star. <br /> Efficiency first + foremost, always. And then the sustainable energy sources.S. W. Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01654864579983316386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-8292755013783033112020-08-10T05:14:20.385-04:002020-08-10T05:14:20.385-04:00I would assume most people's savings and priva...I would assume most people's savings and private pension funds will be wiped out in a post peak oil World. The Govt will be forced to allocate remaining resources with the help of ration booksDon19https://www.blogger.com/profile/05955676272366296870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-73850489405053766832020-08-09T21:51:46.439-04:002020-08-09T21:51:46.439-04:00Does the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (th...Does the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (the leftover ambient energy from the Big Bang), or "cosmic rays" or any other ambient source have enough energy denstiy to charge a cell phone? Shades of Tesla, but not excluded until someone with enough STEM says so.Robin Dattahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15358491380192365005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-52853683853453995272020-08-09T14:48:26.125-04:002020-08-09T14:48:26.125-04:00Hi Kurt
Do I have the following thinking right?
...Hi Kurt<br /><br />Do I have the following thinking right?<br /><br />- Wireless and other technologies that use electricity are growing because electricity is still relatively inexpensive. <br />- Electricity is relatively cheap because fossil fuels are still relatively cheap and in some cases now, over supplied. ( Coal, natural gas primary sources of electricity generation power + Hydro + Nuclear infrastructure built using fossil fuels (embedded energy) ). <br />- Fossil fuels are over supplied and inexpensive now due monetary intervention of central banks and debt accumulation of at all levels in particular national governments and corporations. <br /><br />WHEN economic and fossil fuel production growth ends permanently and the fossil fuel energy descent begins, and it may have, will electricity prices soar? (Fossil prices themselves may not increase that much except for short term price spikes. The fossil fuel supply will decrease...) <br /><br />Two related comments:<br />-At least in the U.S., consumers do not seem to directly bear all the costs of wireless, internet, other technologies. Google and Facebook for example are "free". I would suggest that 12 years of central bank intervention have resulted in the misallocation of capital and distortion of market prices not just in fossil fuel production, but many industry sectors. <br /><br />-There may be real efficiencies in using technology + software + electricity that is in fact a significant part of driving increased use of such technologies. But we really will not know if that is true until the era of central bank stimulus ends and we return to currencies tethered to real values or the actual economic output of a country. I am assuming with this statement that fiat currencies will not function in a Post Peak Oil, post growth, deflationary world. <br /><br />Regards.<br />Shawn Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11133575785476157598noreply@blogger.com