As your analysis demonstrates, there's no warranty of any particular level of insight that attaches to comments in this and similar fora. You are free to leave when you like.
Eric > On May 5, 2016, at 13:19, Che <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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*. > > >
