> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Fortunately, looks like LENR may not be needed to rescue the planet >>> >>> http://www.keith.seas.harvard.edu/blog-1/cheapsolarpower >>> >> >> Indeed. If solar power will help humanity to squeak by, and LENR will allow it to build out all kinds of military capabilities, solar power may end up saving humanity where LENR would doom it. >> >> Eric
* Dealing with an out-of-[democratic-]control Military-Police apparatus is essentially a _political_ issue: generally only solved by class violence of some degree. * Cold Fusion OTOH is a _technological_ issue: with a political-economic social nature necessarily attached to it, after the fact. * These two issues do NOT easily conflate. Not in this (too-usual, unfortunately) way. And IMO it is one of the great failings of this and other fora that such a basic understanding of fundamental societal relations is almost invariably and essentially tossed aside -- in favor of the usual simplistic understanding of how non-technological social issues actually operate. (i.e. 'technology will save/doom us!!', yadda...) Technology, per se, *is essentially NEUTRAL*.
