Chi Guy asked:
..by creating a substantial segment of blue collar middle income earners and an increased demand of engineers?
..by creating a substantial segment of blue collar middle income earners and an increased demand of engineers?
Will green energy over the next twenty years have the same impact that the industrial revolution did?
December 14th, 2008 by Discuss this article »
No green energy cost too much and is bull Sh*t made up by tree huggers. Fossil fuels will always win.
That would be a good day to be living. Yea it costs a lot now, but as technology progresses it gets cheaper.
Not even close
Most of the actual manufacturing will be done in third world cesspools
The whole thing is just another money grab
I don’t see why not. There’s a vacuum of need that will be created as commodities that are petroleum dependent become too costly. The green revolution has currently led to the revitalization of the small farm–which has helped the rural community I grew up significantly with their economy as they went from meager dairy farmers to producing artisanal cheese.
No….”Green Energy” is a marketing term that’ll increase the number of white-collar middle-men, copy writers, advertising salesmen and brokers.
Ethanol will simply come from existing government-subsidized farms…and as always, the corporate mega-farmers will reap all the profits while food prices soar.
Windmills are already a highly speculative business…why do you think T.Boone Pickens speaks so highly of them? He happens to own large shares in windmill manufacturing and carries the deeds to all that prime “wind alley” land.
Geothermal requires drilling, but far less than the oil industry. And the leading producers of Solar panels and converters are large, existing corporations who manufacture over seas.
I don’t believe it will. You see, the industrial revolution totally overhauled the means of production of the entire economy. In contrast, the green revolution is only overhauling one segment of the economy: energy.
I hope so.
But, once those project are completed, they may require less people to operate because they are renewable sources of energy. That is just what I have read….I am certainly no expert.
I hope so. To those that don’t think so, I would like to point out that your great grandparents probably rejected the automobile and indoor plumbing as too expensive and frivolous.
No, it will just be another burden for us. “Green” energy is at least twice as expensive as what we do now.
Now if you tree hugging morons would accept Nuclear energy as green, we could solve all our problems.
Yes, it will. Further, it has the potential of producing true independence, as folks may have the ability to generate electricity and be off of the grid
It will sure help China’s Carbon Fiber Industry. Thank God the EPA banned large scale epoxy based manufacturing, before the Braqi Give-A-way. That sends those windmill bucks straight to China.
I think it will take 3 or 4 geeks about a week to fire up Enron’s old Smart Grid. Makes me wonder what GE did to get that $60 Billion dollar give-A-way
You are on to something, in various periods engineers have moved the economy like the industrial revolution. To name a few, aerospace engineering for NASA and in the sixties to seventies, the nuclear power field up until Carters administration, for five to seven years power plants were built in several states as demand peaked for more affordable heating other than coal and the emissions problems with coal. Then there is petro-chemical plants, pharmaceutical plants etc.
Yes engineers will always tap into what the market needs and that includes green energy, remember most engineers are part scientist and partly driven by designs for equipment and processes that advance people. I firmly believe this. Engineers believe in solving problems, free information technology not information as power, building and being proud of whats construction, safety engineering as well as cost and value engineering.
Engineering will help blue-collar workers, such as stationary engineers, plant engineers and their teams as well as middle class persons. Some trade groups propelled the market for wage earners in the blue- collar fields. As well as professional engineers in their many areas and research and design fields.