I agree with you that it is the western corporations that is
exploiting the African nations. But if we follow your reasoning,
increase our consumption rate and ignore our greenhouse gases
production how does that help the African nations?
Wouldn't it be in the western corporations' interests to furthur
destablize the region in order to exploit more of the natural
resources?
At least by reducing consumption rates and introducing renewable
energy the corporations would lose the incentives to throw in the
money to furthur destablize Africa. Your suggestion would worsen
the stituation the way i see it.
I've did a quick glimpse through the pdf you sent me. To be
honest i could only understand around 20% of it because most of it
is made in technical terms that i'm not schooled in to
understand.
How can you don't know the practicality of the geothermal plants
and yet be so sure that EROEI can be resolved with the EGS? That is
already a contradiction. You are basing on pure faith to
support your views.
The report only states the potential benefits of implementing
the EGS, the theoratical methods that can be used to tap the energy
reserves. I won't say it won't work, but i'm very skeptical that
this supposedly 4,000 years of reserves can be tapped into and
distributed through the world in our life time.
Even if by some miraculous discovery, we got all the technology
to exploit and implement it would still take decades to rework our
infrastructure to support it(Gathering the
engineers/materials/workers/machines), and that is for the
countries that can actually afford it in the first place.
And still it only deals with America, it doesn't deal with how
the rest of the world can tap into it and the potential cost
required.
We have already made this world dependant on the workings of
capitalism. If the potential benefits from solar, wind, tidal and
wave energy is so significant, the corporations would have raced to
exploit it.
Do not forget that any new startups would still need fundings
from these corporations, these "corporations" do not need to try to
control it, people would beg them to come.
I agree with you on the fact that society has to reduce their
consumption levels, consumerism and materialism are sick
ideologies. But the reasons which we do it are flawed. And besides
why do you think corporations spend billions every year
advertising. In addition anthropogenic CO2 (around 0.0068%) gases
do not affect climate, 98% of GHG is water vapour.
In Al Gore's so-called Inconvenient Truth, he states
that there is a complex relationship between CO2 and temperature.
But he doesnt go on to state it. The complex relationship is that
CO2 levels lag temperatures, according to ice core records, by
about 800 years. Immediately, that makes him a corporate shrill who
is pushing a carbon tax to fill corporate coffers.
The way I see it, stabilising Africa is a danger to be
prevented. The exploitation of the natives and natural resources
can only continue if African countries, for instance the Congo, are
divided and in turmoil. That why the people or any nationalistic
leaders cannot use the country's natural resources for national
development. Divide and Rule, a classic tactic from the age of
colonialism. In fact, from 2001-2003, the UN put together 3 reports
that blame the chaos in Congo on about 100 corporations, if anyone
still doubts that fact.
Well, I am also unable to completely interpret that report, but
one thing I can derive is that EGS offers huge potential. I'm no
engineer, I cannot argue about the technical details that EGS
involves. But I do know that sofar, discussion about renewable
energy sources like geothermal, wind, solar, wave and tidal are
very scarce in the MSM. If there is one incentive for corporations
to suppress such information, its because of control. Fossil
fuels/biofuels/hydrogen/nuclear are technologies that make people
and countries dependent on energy companies. Imagine if every house
in the world was energy self-sufficient, these corporations wouldnt
make any money at all.
More than 100 years ago, Nikola Tesla offered humanity unlimited
energy by tapping the EM energy in the atmosphere. Upon his death,
his work was hushed up and he fell into obscurity. Given how much
is being covered up by the MSM and public awareness, it is likely
that energy independence is a danger to be averted when we can
achieve it.