Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trillions of Net Savings

Re:Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trill... by nine_k on Saturday September 17, 2022 @09:38PM (#32883524)

Not at all. If there were billions of dollars worth of whatever on the bottom of the Mariana trench, people would build advanced technology to extract these billions, without any further incentives than the market demand.

A comparable case in point: commercial space launch companies. Arguably, commercial large-scale aviation, too.

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Re:Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trill... by Yoric on Sunday September 18, 2022 @06:02AM (#32886093)

Well, that brings us back to earlier in the thread.

It's not only about money-expensive. If it gets more energy-expensive to produce/store/route/... energy than the amount of energy we end up with in the end, the game is over.

So, in practice, there are limits to reserves. There is, of course, the possibility that these limits can change with new technologies, which in turn depends on money-cost as you mention.

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