Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Bovey t1_j0xpfx9 wrote

Green energy technology takes a high degree of technology to maintain. The big difference in my mind is that it would fail gradually rather than all at once. Of course, something like EMP attacks would still make it very immediate.

12

BigFitMama t1_j0zvp5m wrote

I've been contemplating how long would modern solar cells and their infrastructure last off the grid with people of limited tech skills maintaining them? And without out a global communications system you'd be limited to instructional manuals and troubleshooting what you downloaded offline or printed out.

It is easier to maintain a hydroelectric generator and even easier to maintain waterwheel/gear "power" systems as well as gravity fed water pumps because they don't require computers or a storage system for the momentum them produce.

1

Godtrademark t1_j11v64q wrote

As a political philosophy student it really hurts to see all this futurism with the obvious conclusion ignored: political organization matters. It doesn’t matter how much you believe the new technologies will matter, technicians are required for all these things, and technicians are a vulnerable anomaly of the modern world. It’s just as likely technical sciences are lost (diverted for war, domination, profit, etc.) into a new dark age as it is to enter a cornucopian age where technology serves the developmental use for a utopian society.

2