/sci/ - Science & Math

they are coming

>>2689423
>>2689423
>"where's the carbon-neutral energy."
Faggot detected.

Look buddy I have an MS in geology and I will tell you that global warming, though expensive is less costly than just stopping hydrocarbon use earlier than 70 years from now.

There is going to be 1C warming, there is going to be a 0.95m sea level rise by 2020. Just fucking deal with sissy.

I want more power. More nuclear, more wind, more coal, more oil, more natural gas, more hydroelectric, more solar, MOAR EVERYTHING. And when I look up to the stars I feel no awe, only cold hunger. I see new virgin worlds to rape, defile, and eventually devour to the bone. I think not of how small we are, but how big we can become.


Eventually the biosphere will have to come to an end when it becomes more efficient to just pave over everything with photoelectric cells. Life exists on this planet because we allow it, it will end because we demand it. And when the time comes this planet will burn as the pyre of our ascension to the stars.

>>2666255
When we get photoelectric cells to be more than 37% efficient at collecting photons. You can already produce glucose with less energy than a plant uses. But our best photoelectric cells are only 19% efficient while the best C4 photosynthetic process captures the energy from 37% of the photons that strikes the leaf.So after we make better solar cells we just pave over the entire planet with them. With that glucose as a substrate to grow bacteria on we can produce all the other organic compounds we need by utilizing the metabolic processes of the bacteria.The ultimate plan is the make humans completely independent of any outside aid. Self repairing and self replicating, requiring only the acquisition of materials and access to an energy source to live, without the need for supporting organisms.

It'll probably take several thousand years to attain that kind of technology but that's ok.There is still a 78 year supply of cheap oil(cheap meaning able to produce gasoline for less then 4.10 2001USD/gallon assuming a 5% increase in demand compounded yearly) based on known recoverable reserves. But even after the exhaustion of all hydrocarbon resources it would still be possible to make hydrogen to fuel internal combustion engines(methane engines are in common use today) using electrolysis. The only thing humanity really needs to continue industrial production is electricity. With enough electricity many things that are not currently economically viable become possible. And with nuclear breeder reactors U238 and Thorium can be breed into the nuclear fuels Pu239 and U237 respectfully. This will provide sufficient electrical generation capacity, assuming a 8.5% increase in the consumption of electricity compounded yearly for population of 10 billion for at least 30,000 years. Supplementing this with solar, wind, and water power will ensure our survival for the foreseeable future.

Life on this world exists because we allow it. It will end because we demand it.

>mfw we evolve beyond the need for science and math and replace them with better constructs

>mfw the greatest mathematician hasn't existed yet

>>2153407
Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither, and die. We are eternal, the pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything.