Reply #16: Actually there's a "scientist" who says electrical power consumption will... [View All]

...fall, so there's nothing to worry about.

Nuclear plants? We don't need no stinking nuclear plants!

We're going to conserve our way to requiring only solar cells on our McMansions.

The "scientist" in question is a guy named Amory Lovins. I know he must be right because he has a degree in "Physics" so he's a "physicist" and must, therefore, know everything worth knowing.

He's such a great physicist, in fact, that he got to create his own physical unit, the "negawatt," which he coined somewhere around 1980, precisely the year that electrical power consumption began it's profligate fall to almost zero, just as he predicted.

How do I know electrical consumption will fall to zero? Because I saw it on TV, "big screen," and because Amory Lovins won a big prize for smart guys, called the MacArthur prize, which gave him a lot of money so he could buy (in this order): A McMansion in Snowmass, some solar cells for his McMansion roof, and maybe even a bigscreen plasma TV so he can watch TV shows all about guys who care about the environment, just like he does.

Here's a great interview that we could watch on our plasma TVs, all about how to eliminate our "dependence on foreign oil" by 2050:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/4989662.stm

(Please note that in ten years we can also watch on our Plasma TV's a show in which Amory Lovins tells us we can end our "dependence on foreign oil" by 2060. The year doesn't matter, because no one will be alive to point out how exactly our "dependence on foreign oil" actually came to end.)