#41
labour shortages are good, they encourage automatisation and technological advancement
#42
Jools is living up to his namesake it seems.

You can't automate construction. If you built some kind of super robot that can climb roofs and put panels in place then it would probably cost more energy than you get out.
#43
Panopticon the main problem with slavery is that it only works for motivating unskilled labor. All ancient civilizations knew this. You can't force wind and solar engineers to go to college!
#44
"old enough to know better,
young enough to pretend"
#45
why don't we just dam the ocean already? not even the whole thing, just like the atlantic or something
#46


#47


Renewable energy is ideally suited for slave labor, it's primitive and labor intensive as frack.
#48






That powers about 100 people.