Nearly every major game-changing energy technology since the 19th century has been spearheaded with ample, targeted state support (not just R&D, but subsidies, tax incentives, land grants, etc.), including the fossil fuel industry. Is that not policy?
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Smartest thing I've heard in awhile politics has it's place, but at the end of the day we are left depending upon the engineers, scientists, and inventors to find solutions.
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Policy can make that clean technology cheaper and more accessible than older tech, speeding up its adoption. And naturally policy can advance tech development.
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Cheap clean energy only comes about because policy has forced it to. Building in the cost of pollution through policy makes the market and innovation work in that direction. e.g. Solar is only cheap now because it was subsidised first.
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Prof Pinker, thou are becoming such an expert on energy, I'm impressed. Having studied energy and worked in energy policy, not only you are right, but you know, understand more about the issue than most so called experts. And you stand for facts, not politically correctness.
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So yeah, status quo capitalism, huh Steve. And just hope that a miracle technology materializes? What a profound idea!
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It's has to be. The are only three other choices: 1) hardship for many and luxury for the few; 2) subsistence for all; 3) Hobbesian/Malthusian war of all against all and a huge reduction in human population. I vote science, technology, and progress!
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The people who crack this problem will be the first trillionaires and that is why I think it will happen. Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark did it in the movies and this problem wasn’t even mentioned, seemed like an oversight to me.
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I agree. Human good will and political pressure are all important and laudable, but an untapped business opportunity is an even better motivator to human nature, and may just be the secret sauce to solving our carbon problem.
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It's not a cliche. We are trying to find excuses for being jerks. If there is ever something that can save us that one is named kindness, emotions... qualia This is the cliche might be true. Intelligence without a drop of kindness is the most dangerous thing we can be exposed
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@sapinker Its that “though necessary” belief you hold that will damn us. -
As long as scientists say they need to be able to tell people what to do, the door is open for collectivism. Instead of every man having the right to his life, to make his own decisions, it becomes a fight between the masters on who can make the best decisions for the slaves.
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Would burning ammonia, creating nitric oxide contribute to global warming? http://as.cornell.edu/news/nitric-oxide-plays-key-role-forming-potent-greenhouse-gas …
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You say "technology." I think you mean THEODICY. "The nastiest motives of nasty men will save the environment" (not).
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Technology won't save us, if we're to be saved it will be by human beings. This is, of course, why you're not a humanist.
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You are such a silly person.
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Except there's been virtually no decrease as a result of 'cheap clean energy', just from cheap less dirty natural gas. Making fossil cleaner and more efficient is a dead end strategy.
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"In the future, ammonia could be produced by combining that nitrogen with hydrogen generated by splitting water" That will be a future where the process will have net positive energy balance. Right now it is not, thanks to the miserably inefficient electrolysis of water.
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Jesus, it’s obviously Jesus
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