Reddit mentions of Energy: A Human History

Okay, how about production and disposal of Lead Acid batteries? None of the large scale battery technologies are environmentally friendly. Environmentally friendly batteries are just like Cold Fusion, perpetually 10 years into the future.

What countries in South America produce that Lithium and what kind of environmental impact does that cause? Where are all of these other batteries produced and where do they go when they hit their life expectancy?

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does a terrible job of protecting the environment most of the time but they do enough to make things like batteries and PV panels to expensive to produce in the US at the scale other countries with no protection can.

My assertation isn't should we make the shift to "renewable" energy but rather how quickly and in what way should we make the transition. History is always the best determiner of the future and history tells these transitions are never quick or complete. I suggest reading Energy and Civilization, A history or Energy, A Human History.

>Så vær så snill, ikke forenkle dette


Her; En artikkel fra noen år siden som spådde gass ned både i etterspørsel og pris.

Has gas demand in Europe peaked?


Her har du realiteten noen år seinere;

Norge slo alle salgsrekorder av gass ut til Europa i sommer. Med skyhøye priser selges nå gass for nesten en milliard kroner i døgnet.


Skal man se på historien, vi etterspørsel bare øke. Ja, sol kommer nok til å øke, men det tar ca 100år fra en energikilde er på 1% til den er standard. Sol er på rundt der. Eneste unntaket er atomkraft, men det stoppet opp på 70-tallet av politiske grunner



Sjekk ut denne;


Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time—wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.

This is a rabbit hole of wrong think. Nuclear weapons were invented for war. In the broader scope, dropping two nuclear bombs on Japan probably saved the lives of both the Japanese and Americans. Also, the world was on the cusp of creating nuclear weapons anyway. Humans have always been good at killing each other and finding more efficient ways to do so.

However, the nuclear weapon project wasn't purely for nuclear weapons. It's far too complicated to explain in a reddit post, but I strongly suggest you read Energy: A Human History and The Making of the Atomic Bomb. It's a far more complex and nuanced issue than we simply created nuclear weapons.

tl;dr - your argument is a logical fallacy and ignores all nuance and complexities.