Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Jerry]

Brian H wrote:

So, basically anything that does not produce, market, or make production equipment for many other forms of energy.

Did you mean “Anything that DOES produce…”?

No, he’s saying that equipment etc. tied to other forms of energy generation will be obsolete, and so should be avoided.

Thanks for clearing this up.

It’s a strange boolean. Anything but x. Just avoid x, and you’ll be fine. OK! I’ll buy more shady derivatives – because it’s not x!

I thought perhaps he was thinking of the energy conversion equipment, and that we should invest in that, as he says:

Yes. Gotta watch them derivatives! They will no doubt profuse exponentially. I hope the regulators will soon become sufficiently antiderivative so that we can integrate the technlogy safely.
Hm, wasn’t aware that “profuse” was a verb! “Proliferate”, maybe? Another thing that might proliferate is manufacturing plants, once they are free to locate anywhere without the constraints of grid energy supply.

Look at any businesses that stand to gain from cheaper energy. Not many will loose catastrophically from fusion. Most are diversified and in fact may be heavily vested in fusion by the time it comes online.

I think it will be the oil-producing countries, rather than than corporations, that will take the hit when oil prices fall. Some have invested in natural infrastructure and production unrelated to oil; others have not. In many, all the money has gone to the ruling families so that the general population has gotten little. Some, like Mexico, are deep in debt. That will require democratization under adverse circumstances to pull them out of it by developing other resources.