UK to award £1 million for world's biggest problem solution

Re:UK to award £1 million for world's biggest problem solution by loceng on Monday June 17, 2013 @09:27AM (#5892989)

I somewhat disagree. It will disrupt a single complex that's been perpetuated, and yes, it will create and allow for a lot of innovation - however producing product and developing resources into buildings, and other systems, cause tons of pollution and non-renewable destruction of our lands. It will actually be bad IMHO in certain circumstances if non-polluting energy comes too soon to us.

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Re:UK to award £1 million for world's biggest problem solution by JDGM on Monday June 17, 2013 @10:01AM (#5893151)

If I follow correctly, you believe that non-polluting energy would loosen constraints on production and the acceleration of growth this would cause would have a net negative environmental effect because the increase in non-energy-creation-related pollution would more than counter balance the savings from non-polluting energy. Is that an accurate summary?

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Re:UK to award £1 million for world's biggest problem solution by loceng on Monday June 17, 2013 @02:08PM (#5894810)

Assuming rules / laws / regulations weren't put in place to counter this, yes. We all know how fast government is to act ... which is why there should be concern.

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Re:UK to award £1 million for world's biggest problem solution by panacea on Monday June 17, 2013 @09:48AM (#5893082)

Bollocks to that. You would prefer we remain hamstrung with expensive finite dire polluting energy sources so we can keep the vast majority of humanity stuck in poverty? A pox on your thought processes.

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