LENR will not kill jobs by itself, and robots will be even more needed for more expensive energy sources like wind turbines... that is not specific to LENR. The more expensive it is, the more the automation is needed.
as any productivity increase it will challenge the social organization, whether the gain will be mostly to the rich, to workers consumption, or worker free time... LENR mean only that unlike scarse and concentrated mineral ressources, it won't be lasy cash for some, incentive for corruption and dictatorship, but rather hard competition, wid distribution, power to the workers . that is not far from car revolution. to summarize if you divide the cost of energy by 10, and this imply reduction needed work per product by 2, then you will have the choice between : multiplying wages by 2 and dividing employment by 2, dividing wortime by 2, of multiplying shareholder profits by 2 and keeping unemployment and wages, or more probably a big mix with pressure of all sides, and ratio depending on culture... of course ther will be change in consumption making all more complex, because is rich and poor have more cash, and some more leisure time, the consumption will change, employment too, and wages equilibrium too... globally what history say, either in country focusing on leisure time, or in country focusing on consumption,redistributing or not, welfare or jungle , it is that it is GOOD. the only reason why we moan about progress is that we are already developed, and our unemployment and poverty problem is only a problem of social organization, international re-balancing and lack of recent productivity gain. 2012/7/18 Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> > LENR will kill jobs by the millions. The LENR production factory will be > completely automated. Only robots will populate these places. The sales of > products will be done on Amazon.com. The distribution of product will be > highly if not completely automated. If there is a thousand people employed > in production, sales and distribution of the E-Cats I will be surprised. > > > > Maintenance of the solid state E-Cat will fair no better at creating jobs. > This work can be completely automated over the internet with 24/7 > monitoring and internet triggered auto reloading every six months. > > > > Did you ever think about all the people who make a living in the energy > business? All of today’s energy workers: the coal miners, oil workers, gas > station attendants, gas drillers, pipeline workers, sycophant government > workers…on and on… will be out of a job. The LENR energy industry will > support hundreds of energy jobs rather than millions. Big disruptions are > ahead. > > > Maybe government leaders don’t want to deal with this new revolution right > now. They will put LENR into military systems but that is as far as it will > go. > > > Cheers: Axil > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Robots and LENR could take down China… >> >> >> >> It doesn’t really matter where those robots are deployed; robots cost the >> same to install and run because they cost the same no matter where the >> factory is located especially when the power that drives them is almost >> free. >> >> >> >> Cheap labor is no longer a factor in competitive advantage. *Competitive >> advantage* is defined as the strategic advantage one business entity has >> over its rival entities within its competitive industry. Achieving >> competitive advantage strengthens and positions a business better within >> the business environment. >> >> Cheers: Axil >> > >
