What is the worst outcome in energy development?

[XemaSab]

:shrug:

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Had to go with the corporations

Because they're to blame for most of the other bad shit you mentioned anyway.

[Usrename]

6. yep, me too

a toss up though, with global warming

[vincna]

7. I guess you'd rather freeze in the dark

Personally, I like a warm house. electric lights, TV and having gas in the car. None of those things would be there without corporations having developed the technology and infrastructure.

[FogerRox]

9. People invented those things, corporations made money off those ideas

[frog92969]

2. Corporations = All of the Above

And none of it good.

[Dogmudgeon]

3. No question: the DU E/E Forum

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[Dead_Parrot]

4. DoublePlus Clarity. nt

[NecklyTyler]

5. The worst outcome in energy development is no development at all

The big energy producing companies are focused on maintaining the current system of mining coal and drilling for oil. As long as these companies are without direct influence from the Government, we will continue on our path of burning dirty fossil fuels and warming the planet.

A massive clean, renewable energy program, similar to the effort to put man on the Moon, is way to go. We need to divert the colossal spending on the military to energy production research and development. Lockheed Martin can just as easily build solar power plants as weapons

[bhikkhu]

8. the environment, if you're talking industrialism

which is more or less what that power goes to, and to maintain the lifestyles built around it. Looking at peak oil and recession and so forth, the one bright lining is that just maybe some corner of the world might remain wild, and maybe things will turn around before the extinction event we're in the midst of becomes more general and inevitable.