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You say probably a lot. And that was my point. We dont know. We say “probably”.
And the whole law of thermo dynamics was also my point: you cant reuse energy twice magically. It does something, now, in our climate. We are removing that energy and converting it into something else. So what it did before, whatever purpose it was, doesn’t happen now. Does it matter? Probably not. We dont know for sure.
What’s the problem with only 1 degree median temperature rise? Probably nothing, we said.
Well… That’s come back and kicked us right in the nuts now didn’t it?
There was a time, once not very long ago, when we also said “it probably will not matter if we burn this oil.”
We dont know. Were fucking around with systems we dont understand and which exist in a current state of equilibrium. And we dont know how much we can wiggle the scales. So we say: it will be fine, probably.
Am I saying to not do it? Nope, the other options are proven to be bad so lets try something else. All for it.
Yeah, I did say it twice about the same thing. You got me there. However, energy is not created by solar or wind. It is merely transformed. And is transformed again when it’s used. You don’t have to question that. It’s still doing the same thing it did before, we merely rerouted it a bit.
You say probably a lot. And that was my point. We dont know. We say “probably”.
And the whole law of thermo dynamics was also my point: you cant reuse energy twice magically. It does something, now, in our climate. We are removing that energy and converting it into something else. So what it did before, whatever purpose it was, doesn’t happen now. Does it matter? Probably not. We dont know for sure.
What’s the problem with only 1 degree median temperature rise? Probably nothing, we said.
Well… That’s come back and kicked us right in the nuts now didn’t it?
There was a time, once not very long ago, when we also said “it probably will not matter if we burn this oil.”
We dont know. Were fucking around with systems we dont understand and which exist in a current state of equilibrium. And we dont know how much we can wiggle the scales. So we say: it will be fine, probably.
Am I saying to not do it? Nope, the other options are proven to be bad so lets try something else. All for it.
Yeah, I did say it twice about the same thing. You got me there. However, energy is not created by solar or wind. It is merely transformed. And is transformed again when it’s used. You don’t have to question that. It’s still doing the same thing it did before, we merely rerouted it a bit.