VladDrakken(DAK)

Sep 18 2012, 02:23 AM

Vlad's Opinion

But what do you do if the batteries or the energy stored is not sufficient enough? Remember, not everywhere is always sunny.

I am completely and utterly for the idea of renewable energies, as our reliance on fossil fuels has caused more trouble than its worth. But the shift has to be actively made and its only so so. Its going to take a lot more interest and backing to get this stuff off the ground. Its going to take that, or the inevitable collapse that will come from fossil fuels being depleted.

As you mention, this kind of renewable energy would basically kill major energy companies that refuse to adapt, hence why many find it more easier to enforce and keep use using current energy sources.

It will undoubtedly change a lot, but I don't know if one could say it would revitalize the economy. Its noticed that often the most economically beneficial way to make money is to take the non-eco friendly route. You must also remember that the jobs required to do the solar panels are not the same amount as it takes for other, more wasteful energy companies, thus it would lead to more jobs being lost than really saved. Its something I think is often failed to be noticed in science is the realization that the more we try to make things faster, more efficient, or try to make a major change, is that we fail to realize how much we also end up losing or adding to problems that didn't exist before.

For example, you have five workers doing one job, but then you get a machine that does the job of those five workers. They have to get a new job, which makes sense, but when other people and such are using and adding more and more machines that lessens the amount of workers needed, and the population continues to rise, at one point there will eventually be jobless without many choices to get a job. Perhaps those people can be trained to handle, fix, or be engineers for those machines, but there is only so much needed.

Personally, Science solves as many problems as it helps create.

...Sorry. I tend to think of these things. I am for renewable energies, its just that I don't think a "revitalized" economy is really what you should aim for. I personally would of add "ascends religion, politics, and capitalism" since money be damned in my opinion.

Omerto

Sep 21 2012, 10:43 PM

There's more to the economy than "jobs." At some point the income paid to workers has to come from somewhere, and if it's going to represent a growth in real standards of living, it has to represent the addition of new, real value.

Which these roads would probably add. Or they might not, depending on how expensive their creation and maintenance would be, and how efficient they would really be in terms of energy production and environmental impact.

Really, there's no way to know from arm-chair guess-work. There will be variables, a lot of variables, big and hugely important variables, we just don't consider.