This is what happens everytime you have a long period of low interest rates. A speculative market skyrockets and doesn't know how to regulate it's own scale, until resource constrainsts make it necissary.
Raising wood prices signaled early that the housing crash would happen.
The answer may not be to create more power. It may be to reduce unnatural demand.
Nuclear is centralized and takes at least a decade to build.
Orbit is impossible for data centers until they can industrialize space - and that's not a good use of zero-G. Easier to build data centers in Antarctica.
Small modular thorium salt reactors would be good - like China is building.
Molten salt reactors are nuclear. And it does not take a decade to build a nuclear power plant, the military has done it much more quickly. It takes a decade to go through the bureaucracy, and that, like everything else, is fixable.
And in case you haven't noticed, Elon is well on his way to industrializing space.
People keep saying "that's not possible," and then Elon (and to a lesser extent, Trump) go and do it. Then the same people sniff, take what's already done as the new assumed baseline, and declare the next thing impossible.
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This is what happens everytime you have a long period of low interest rates. A speculative market skyrockets and doesn't know how to regulate it's own scale, until resource constrainsts make it necissary.
Raising wood prices signaled early that the housing crash would happen.
The answer may not be to create more power. It may be to reduce unnatural demand.
Consumer culture needs a diet.
Also, planned obsolescence.
So does government growth.
So does the FIC, MIC, and TIC.
Bloat may be the biggest enemy.
The housing crash was not caused by low interest rates per se, but by government regulators requiring lenders to give loans to bad risk lendees.
Which is why we need to bring nuclear power online ASAP, and get data centers into orbit so they can run off solar.
Both are ridiculous.
Nuclear is centralized and takes at least a decade to build.
Orbit is impossible for data centers until they can industrialize space - and that's not a good use of zero-G. Easier to build data centers in Antarctica.
Small modular thorium salt reactors would be good - like China is building.
Molten salt reactors are nuclear. And it does not take a decade to build a nuclear power plant, the military has done it much more quickly. It takes a decade to go through the bureaucracy, and that, like everything else, is fixable.
And in case you haven't noticed, Elon is well on his way to industrializing space.
They won't fix bureaucrazy, unless you mean they way they fix the votes.
Space X's first baby steps still have a long way to go.
People keep saying "that's not possible," and then Elon (and to a lesser extent, Trump) go and do it. Then the same people sniff, take what's already done as the new assumed baseline, and declare the next thing impossible.
That's not what I'm doing.
Fuck Trump and Elon. They are evil puppets.
Billionaires are not your friends.
In other words, it's a very solvable problem at every scale, and no reason to be doom-and-gloom about anything.