Futurism

[unixronin]

It's 2007.  Where's my flying car, dammit?

No, Möller's ground-effect Jetsons personal flying saucer does not count.  Even if the control system would let you get it above ten feet altitude, it'd probably be almost uncontrollable out of ground effect, and I'll bet it's noisy as hell.

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[smandal.livejournal.com]

Geothermal generation would probably have to work as a co-op rather than as a pay-for-performance enterprise, because geothermal resources are extensive geographically and there is the risk of subsidence. The co-op can then sell power to the grid if they so choose.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm aware, the risk of subsidence is confined to systems that take the quick-and-dirty approach of extracting hot groundwater. The geothermal generation systems I was talking about involve drilling a deep borehole into hot rock, injecting water and capturing the resulting steam (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070804/ap_on_sc/drilling_for_heat), and should have, at worst, no greater likelihood of causing surface ground subsidence than an oil well. (And I'm not aware of any reports of ground subsidence associated with oil wells.)

[smandal.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info.

Obviously, nanoassembly/replication and limitless cheap/free energy would make a huge dent into material scarcity.

Until then, there's DMT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grcqs9cDuN8). :P

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I don't have Flash configured in this browser, for reasons of stability, and I'm already afraid. Is this anything like the Time Cube (http://www.timecube.com/)?

[smandal.livejournal.com]

No :) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine) ()