When I wrote my book in 2004, I said that the energy sector has roughly 1.2
million workers. See chapter 20 table 20.1. Let's have another look at the
numbers.
Employment in fossil fuel has not changed much since 2004. The number of
people employed in alternative energy such as wind energy has
With the advent of almost free energy, food could be produced in the center
of cities using robots and industrial scale bioengineering and cloning.
This eliminates railroads, farm equipment production and sales, trucking,
and associated infrastructure maintenance.
Control of element
I left out this category from the BLS Table B-1a: Support activities for
oil and gas operations, 303,000 people.
Roughly 20% of oil is used for feedstock, for things like plastics and
lubricants, so there will still be some employment in that sector. The
market for oil feedstock will not vanish
Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote:
With the advent of almost free energy, food could be produced in the
center of cities using robots and industrial scale bioengineering and
cloning. . . .
Actually, there are plans to do this now, with conventional energy. I
expect cold fusion will make it
cold fusion will give buying power to people globally.
this buying power won't be reduced by magic, so it will be used either to
reduce work effort for the same salary, or to increase consumption of
goods, or of service.
Globally it will be good, end if well managed it may be good for the
Further on out in time with the burden and preoccupation of material
survival lifted from their shoulders, governments will need to find
something of interest for their citizens to do. They could turn to war and
conquest as has been often done throughout history to reduce the
population. Or they
Alain Sepeda wrote:
cold fusion will give buying power to people globally[...]
Hopefully so.
Maybe low cost fusion (Lockheed 'Skunkworks'), aneutronic
fusion (LPP), or thorium reactors will also play a role.
the problem is only if - money stay in a closed
community... it happened with oil,
I agree with that there will be less demand for physical labor. There will
also be a need for a lot of people to get a new education / job training.
Changes have been accelerating for at least 100 years no news and nothing
to worry about.
The problem is that our government incl. of the government
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