Deflation news

[doodab]

Yep. I expect there will be laws along soon to stop people picking up dead wood from forests, chopping down trees, or digging up suitable earth. All in the name of climate control, though really to keep us all paying 'the man' for our own resources.

There will be people quietly harvesting their own fuel and collecting their own rain water, allowing them to be as off-grid as possible.

Is it easier to follow them or just keep paying the bills?

Isn't that what the solar cell and windmill brigade are doing?

[PAH]

Isn't that what the solar cell and windmill brigade are doing?

Yes, but the problem with those is that it takes a good while for it to pay for itself due to the currently high cost of entry.

If solar panels were much cheaper we could all have them on our roofs. The more efficient and affordable designs always seem to be years away. Much like other sources of cheap energy.

I wonder what the common denominator is.

[amcdonald]

At some point people are going to realise there are alternatives to being plugged into the gas and electric grid scam.

Maybe one day they will also realise you can burn soil if it has enough organic matter content (e.g. peat).

Anyone want to invent a device that tests soil for burnability? I'm too lazy to be a billionaire.

All you need is a steady stream of Chavs and the facility to burn them

Godwin!

[PAH]

I like your thinking. Soylent Green energy.

[hyperD]

It'll end up like a scene from Mad Max where we all crowd around a large refinery surrounded by a defensive wall laughing at the idiots outside with their windmills and solar panels, freezing their bollocks off in the cloudy, windless winter's day.