We are slaves of electricity
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We are slaves of electricity
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Re: We are slaves of electricity
#2It's not electricity. It's energy. Electricity is just a medium for transferring energy from source to destination. The amount of usable energy at our disposal is proportional to the level of technological advancement. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
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#3"Just for a moment, suspend your scientific beliefs and imagine that electricity suddenly ceased to exist. Waking up, your alarm wouldn’t work. Unless you have a gas grill, you can say goodbye to your morning toast."
Uh, I'm not a scientist, but I imagine you would just die instantly.
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#4The article goes on to focus on the need for advancement in battery technologies. Although the specific examples in view were mobile devices, I think that is one of the most interesting aspects of the work Tesla(TSLA) is doing. They are extremely motivated to make breakthroughs. Their business depends up on it.
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#5It's not electricity. It's energy. Electricity is just a medium for transferring energy from source to destination. The amount of usable energy at our disposal is proportional to the level of technological advancement. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
My sentiment exactly! We are dependent on energy itself. Numerous projects have proven themselves feasible for generating energy in a cheap & clean fashion. However, with all companies out to "make a buck", such innovations often get swept under the carpet.
Example? Think back to the decision of the motor vehicle industry's choice to offer hydrogen-powered vehicles instead of water-powered ones.
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#6It's not electricity. It's energy. Electricity is just a medium for transferring energy from source to destination. The amount of usable energy at our disposal is proportional to the level of technological advancement. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
Solar power will bring us from a Type I society to Type II... eventually
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#7"Just for a moment, suspend your scientific beliefs and imagine that electricity suddenly ceased to exist. Waking up, your alarm wouldn’t work. Unless you have a gas grill, you can say goodbye to your morning toast." Uh, I'm not a scientist, but I imagine you would just die instantly.
Yeah, I kind of thought it was funny he missed that too...our entire body operates on electric impulses.
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#8It's not electricity. It's energy. Electricity is just a medium for transferring energy from source to destination. The amount of usable energy at our disposal is proportional to the level of technological advancement. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
My sentiment exactly! We are dependent on energy itself. Numerous projects have proven themselves feasible for generating energy in a cheap & clean fashion. However, with all companies out to "make a buck", such innovations often get swept under the carpet. Example? Think back to the decision of the motor vehicle industry's choice to offer hydrogen-powered vehicles instead of water-powered ones.
Water-powered vehicles? WTF?
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#9"Just for a moment, suspend your scientific beliefs and imagine that electricity suddenly ceased to exist. Waking up, your alarm wouldn’t work. Unless you have a gas grill, you can say goodbye to your morning toast." Uh, I'm not a scientist, but I imagine you would just die instantly.
You, and the rest of the universe, as your body and everything else disintegrated into various neutrally-charged subatomic particles, the universe becoming a black expanse of floating nuclei.
I think that part of suspending your scientific beliefs means assuming that only the power grid failed, not the entirety of electromagnetics, and relevant physical laws.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
My sentiment exactly! We are dependent on energy itself. Numerous projects have proven themselves feasible for generating energy in a cheap & clean fashion. However, with all companies out to "make a buck", such innovations often get swept under the carpet. Example? Think back to the decision of the motor vehicle industry's choice to offer hydrogen-powered vehicles instead of water-powered ones.
Water-powered vehicles? WTF?
Boiled water, rather