Soap Box

Even though I'm certainly a forefighter for looking into alternate ways to generate energies apart from the obvious fossile ones, believing that alternate energies will one day fully account for the user-stoppage of fossile energies is believing in an utopia. Yes, it works. If you're in a rural community with 1000 homes, you can make that community completely self-providing. That's scientifically and practically proven, so no contest there. Metropoles are another beast alltogether. We're not talking only about the exponentially increased number of homes, but we're talking industry in the broadest sense of the word too, much of which operate 24 hours a day. We're talking traffic, airports, harbors, places of entertainment and other hubs that have any number of people converge for whatever reason. Alternative energies can only be of value there if they're used NEXT to the consumption of fossile energies. And all the things you can do around the home are nice and all, but to get a return on investment, you must be sure that at least one of your kids stays to live in your house after your dead and buried. Further more, unless the industry as whole doesn't get curbed in their consumption one way or the other, but are allowed to guzzle energies like there's no tomorrow, your home-investments are absolutely pointless.' In less than 70 years fossile energies will be scarce enough to go to war over them. Your solar-panel, windmill, humus-container, human-shit converter and big ball of tinfoil in your kitchen-closet won't change that one bit.