[FRIAM] bigger plans, bigger little mistakes - Electron Symmetry

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Robert Howard wrote:
> “We have invented a game called Carbon Offsets. But to be effective, 
> it really requires everyone’s cooperation. Unfortunately, we can’t get 
> them to play.
What I think is that necessity is the mother of invention. Make some 
self-imposed pain to, say, radically reduce the number of internal 
combustion automobiles on the road, and get large scale solar, clean 
coal, or even fusion working (e.g. which I believe requires little more 
than having the governments of wealthy western nations stand up to their 
petroleum lobbies), and then the rest of the world will run with it, 
because it will be easy to do. Open source energy. Or if for some reason 
it is not desirable to share some of this technology with iffy nations, 
we can export the energy to them real cheap.

Also, I'm not so sure it really requires everyone's cooperation. For 
example, the United States alone a large fraction of the worlds' 
electrical and petroleum energy usage. If that were all clean power it 
ought to help buy some time w.r.t. climate change.