Comments by "G Money" (@AliceinWonderlandzz) on "Where in the World: Quartzite and Greentech" video.

  1. It pains me to disagree with Peter. It's like telling Jesus he's got God all wrong. One gets the sense that our Texas Geopolitical savior has a deep oil bias. Granted, oil is not going away. But actually, oil IS going away. Solar is an emerging disruptive technology that is halving it's cost per KW/hr every five years. It is already at parity in most areas and economically superior in sun states. It's fair to say some areas are less solar rich, but since sunlight is free, even a cloudy day on Mars is less costly than the true cost of a barrel of oil. One more halving and it's oil that will be competitive in only small pockets. Combined with battery technology the intermittent energy capture disadvantage is moot as well. As for the environment - yes, you can't wave your wand and just poof solar cells into existence without input cost to the environment but once they are made they last for 30+ years without a breath of pollution. Writing solar off as dirty tech is disingenuous. More importantly solar is politically neutral. You can make a fair case that oil is a massively corrupting influence that has destroyed democracy and quality of life for citizens in its influence. It facilitates dictatorship and exploitation and as a result the flash points to set the world on fire are literally sitting in pools of oil. God bless the oil companies but they have been a key facilitator in that corruption. As such they form a potent enemy of progress. They have invested trillions into the ground and have to have oil be dominant to extract the value - breathing be damned. There is a middle way. Oil can continue to be sunsetted as solar becomes cheaper and more dominant without bankrupting Texas or the plutocratic oil elite. I'm not in favor of government edicts either way - every technology gets adopted only when it makes economic sense and that will absolutely happen over the next ten years. That represents huge potential for US to dominate a new industry and leaning into that rather than dismissing it is the way forward.
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