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On Jun 21, 2010, at 6:26 PM, dan wrote: > > ...There just seems to be no major technological change on the > horizon that > can affect production. Unless of course scientists find a way to > create > cheap, boundless energy... Scientists will never find a way to create energy, because energy is conserved, can neither be created or destroyed. But that cheap (actually free) boundless energy is already with us as it always has been--its called the sun. And the basic technology for its unlimited capture (at the very start of its learning curve) is already with us in the form of solar photovoltaics and wind turbines. What "costs" is the investment to make it universally available. And that cost is the guaranteed monetary return on investment demanded by capital before the investment is permitted. The capitalist mode of production thus today stands as the absolute barrier to its own reproduction. Shane Mage "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
