Unfortunately, even if you had a solar cell that functioned at 100% capacity (which does not seem to exist yet for all I'm aware of), we do not have the battery technology required to feasibly implement a major solar energy system. If technology were developed where batteries could maintain and hold a charge indefinitely, I would be all for solar power. I think that in the long term, such as system could develop a surplus. But then I also believe that unicorns would be operating the energy transfer facilities and gnomes would be running the transportation system. How awesome would that be... having the expedia travel gnome for your bus driver.

Right now the US citizen pays on average 18.5 cents per Kilowatt hour. This is with coal, electric, nuclear, etc. In France, they live on a government subsidized Nuclear power grid (around 90%) and pay 1.5 cents (converted from euro) per kilowatt hour. I can tell you right now that if the USA were to adopt a solar energy program at 50% of the national consumption, I would not be surprised if the costs of maintaining a silicon based power grid were more than $2.00 per kilowatt hour (and that is a conservative estimate). Keep in mind that solar panels only last about 10-15 years before they have to be replaced, and then maintenance of huge solar assemblies are hilariously expensive.

Last month I got an energy bill for $285. This is at a lower than average kilowatt per hour... .15 cents. Now? imagine energy bills for houses that consume around 2000 kilowatt hours with a $2.00 KH. It's $4,000... a month. If I got a bill like that, I would personally start burning those solar assemblies with barrels of crude oil I found underneath my house? which I would pleasantly call Texas tea in an ode to the Beverly Hill Billies. So how would solar energy effect the USA right now? Not well?

I don't think people are "green" enough to dig that deep. To tell the truth, I think the whole green movement kinda got out of hand. BMW did a survey and published a few days ago stating that "?20% of respondents said they look at CO2 levels when they research new cars, 75% said they'd only buy a car if they saved money." Autoblog People are not willing to dig that deep in the name of green. Not yet at least. When the earth starts going up a few degrees in temperature? then you might see that percentage go down a few points.

But if the world really were free of oil and on renewable energy. First, I would put all my life savings into a public service announcement to be broadcast all over the middle east. In this statement, I would say;

A)OPEC this (insert mental image of the middle finger) you a-holes!

B) All those years you drained the world of cash in exchange for oil, and all you have to show for it are faltered real estate investments and really tall buildings. WTF Middle-east! Did you think the need for oil would last forever that you wouldn't feel the need to invest that oil money in viable infrastructure to fit into the world's economy! Enjoy sitting on billions of barrels of nearly worthless goop. You deserve it. Also, while we are on the subject, to that Sultan that has like five of every type of exotic car made for the past thirty years... I hate you. I hope your Red Ferrari Enzo has electrical problems and your chromed out Bugatti Veyron rusts.

C) To quote James May from Top Gear, "It's back to flying carpets for you."

LOL! Just kidding. But seriously, that Sultan thing was pretty straight up.

One of the more enjoyable responses Ive read in a while, haha. I suppose at one point in time it will come. At that point, Id imagine something resembling chaos and anarchy in the middle east.

On the flip side, India who decided their main focus to be programming will be clear sailing in the strangely technological years to come.

The middleeast is one of those places where chaos and anarchy is a relative term. Don't get me wrong, a major cut in oil demand would seriously hurt the region's economy and probably hurt a few people? but then I think the majority of the people would not really feel a thing. Most of the oil is monopolized by the government and their favored recipients. Those people and their companies would probably tank real bad. It would probably resemble the banking crisis now? but without all of the common investor issues. The people would still suffer in the form of development cutbacks, but I don't think it would be all that bad.

India is one of those places that if I were living there, I would have some serious worry. If you think America had problems with exportation of jobs and industry to china, you should look at India. The more westernized sections of their infrastructure becomes, the more they rely on the same modus of profit margins the west has been consumed with. I remember reading on BBCnews.com a while back that India in the last two years has seen a 30% drain in industry to china. 30% in two years! But not only jobs... infrastructure. India had the right idea to accommodate cheaper wages and technological availability, but unfortunately, china can and has outpaced them. Honestly, India is going to be the first country to feel the squeeze. One of the few things that keeps America afloat is the research and development sections of the tech industry. Lose that, and America will certainly fade. Interestingly enough, china prohibits any foreign business development in infrastructure and purchase of a national business period? which is a lot of businesses. They know what they are doing.

For a big and sudden change in the manner the world makes energy I will place my bet on cold fusion. Imagine supplying the current london with energy for one week with a cup of water (That measure is real)

Off course its not that easy, but I don think especting fusion to show up suddently is overly optimistic, just note how fast we went from disketes holding 1 mb to CDs holding 700X more, how sudden was the leap from normal bombs to nuclear bomb, in a few years we gained self-destruction capacity.

I think the changes are pretty much impossible to foresee, but in the overall will make the world a better place: There will be no more disputes for fuel since anything will be fuel.

Pons and Fleischman were also very interested in cold fusion. I'm no conspiracy theorist, but one of them is dead and the other has been turned into an academic mute. Coincidence? maybe. LOL! But seriously, the Japanese are supposedly developing cold fusion along the lines of what Pons and Fleischman had argued (cold fusion via energized palladium etc.)

Its also interesting that you would mention the rate of advancement in things like CD's. There is a principle called Moore's law that dictates the rate of advancement for technology. That being said, it is theoretically possible to make the fastest computer possible with the given processor architecture framework. Would this then imply some sort of rate of advancement for the destructive power of a nuclear bomb? Probably not.

I would honestly put my money on hydrogen, since it is basically a very available resource (water). If there were a safe delivery system and supply chain for hydrogen? that would be it I would think for fossil fuels.

I put my bet on nanotechnology solar power. Wager: 1

I put my faith in the power of nature to destroy us and save the world...what is more important humanity or the world we live in???

Is nature important if there is no conscious mind to appreciate it?

It depends on what you call consciousness..

Depends on how the conscious mind factors into the issue of electrical production for common use. On that note... does it? Is Descartes an employee of the electrical company now?

Using solar energy is the optimal thing to save energy usage,as it converts light energy into eclectic subsequent energies.Humanity is indeed intellectual to conceive of this,in blueprint,and then it is invented to suit all families.

One demerit is that you could not use solar energy in the night,and what would transpire if each family must buy this mandatory solar panels?Isn't the future night un-befitting?

Humanity should perceive twice of whether solar energy is needed for all families.It's needless to invent it,in retrospection,as why wouldn't humanity terminate pollution first?Human living in the world should help to save the Earth,each of us.

When humanity invent these solar panel,solar cars,and the like,some chemicals is a dearth,and reputedly it would be prohibitive,like a million for a big and productive engine.

If the family has unsufficient money,then what are they for?

Well energy production is usually handled by the government, so everone has acess to it, only thing that varies is how much one can afford to get.



Humanity:

1. The world is not a beating heart and life/nature is not a magical holy thing.
2. Humans are life too.
3. All forms of life care only for their survival, intelligence is not an excuse to demand humans to be diferent.
4. Life is a relative concept.
5. Nature is not a mother or magical force, has no will, and doesnt seeks reveange.

Unicorns can't operate the energy transfer facilities because they have no thumbs, and if gnomes would run the transportation system, we'd all have the to adjust our seats.

Your logic is horribly flawed.

I would say nature is a mysterious force which is pushing and has been pushing since the beginning of the universe to create a consciousness that is aware of the fact that nature is a mysterious force which is pushing and has been pushing since the beginning of the universe to create a consciousness that is aware.

Aristoddler, we differ greatly?sir?on the capabilities of unicorns in the workplace. Equal pay for equal yet mythical work. There will be no need for thumbs in the transfer stations of the future. Instead of small, tedious buttons, the energy transfer stations of tomorrow will have those ridiculously big, red "easy" buttons like on the old staples commercials. Also in a hilarious twist, unicorns will clock out by performing a version of "pin the tail on the donkey" but with a time card in the shape of a tail attached to their horn and on a real donkey.

And on the subject of Gnomes?. adjusting seats is a small price to pay for the employment of the vertically and proportionally challenged. If we do not employ gnomes? they may resort to their previous occupations? like world domination. And judging from that map... the the south west is royally screwed. Curious though... the south west would also be the perfect place for a solar array. Mwahahahaha!

I think its the oposite, that is, consciousness is a mysterious force that created this world.

i would have to retract my statement and agree with you