Have one publicly owned company on the market. As the government owns it, it can incentivise the directors to pursue 'fair' margins however you want to define that.

Other companies either get with the program by competing at the new price level or put themselves out of business. And when it does shareholder payouts, that would be going directly back to the government so it pays for itself.

If it goes out business, spin up another with less foolish operating directions.

Well that's hardly true. I'll throw in a live sources link here in a moment

https://grid.iamkate.com/

I've seen that renewables number anywhere between 10 and 50% depending on the prevailing conditions. This December there was no wind blowing at all and it stayed at about 8% for nearly a month.

Oil died the day putin went into Ukraine. No country is going to want to remain exposed to that level of risk if they can help it.

What is reddits obsession with doomerism

4000 or so years of city being continually build on city will do it.

The ground major modern European cities is built on is largely the ruins of old versions of the city.

Some day future city planners are going to find themselves breaking into entire unknown tunnel networks.

If you think tribes have no social problems you don't know much about tribes.

Thats confusing fuel for raw material.

Oil as fuel is far more dangerous than as raw material. We've actually recently been discovering bacteria capable of breaking down plastic and genetic engineering will surely improve on that. Which means we will be able to make a closed loop for plastics.

At some point the economics will favour breaking down plastic over ever more expensive extraction. Especially as the recycling option gets cheaper.

Thats proven currently economic supply.

Theres still vast amounts of lower quality / harder sources like tar sands and sea floor methane that humanity has barely touched.

At the current pace we will transition away long before they become economic.

If you are using the car during the day and using it as a battery at night when are you charging it to make all this activity possible?

By the time thats politically or economically viable there will also be no point.

Any big economic change involves diehard holdouts. They never achieve anything.

We desperately need to prove out these pilot carbon capture plants.

I think there is still at least one old capital of Egypt that remains completely unlocated. Let alone all the less important places and secret / ritual sites.

Ouch.

Agree its pretty dubious though. Probably end up having to take it off the pad to fix it and recertify it anyway.

Yep. Anyone who fails to transition is effectively sending men out to die pointlessly. (Mature) Drone infantry will out distance them, out manevour them and likely attack at speeds below their ability to react. They have no morale to break, minimal need to stop and much better logistics.

The traditional infantry man will be reduced to some sort of combined drone commander and tech support. The force multiplier is enormous.

Anyone who has any idea what is happening in the UK at the minute knows how unlikely this is.