- Scientists recently modeled a range of interactions between energy-intensive civilizations and their planets. The results were sobering. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/how-do-aliens-solve-climate-change/561479/ 10 comments science
- Energy-Starved India Signs Civil Nuclear Deal To Get Uranium Supplies From Australia http://www.forbes.com/sites/saritharai/2014/09/08/energy-starved-india-signs-civil-nuclear-deal-to-get-uranium-supplies-from-australia/ 4 comments worldnews
- At March on Washington's 60th anniversary, leaders seek energy of original movement for civil rights https://apnews.com/article/march-on-washington-mlk-dream-speech-sharpton-062039daf026d65cbbae914456ba0543 2 comments politics
- Can't pay won't pay: Brits join civil disobedience campaign over soaring energy prices https://www.marketplace.org/2022/08/23/cant-pay-wont-pay-brits-join-civil-disobedience-campaign-over-soaring-energy-prices/ 45 comments energy
- 18 UK green energy projects to benefit from £10bn foreign investment | New Civil Engineer https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/18-uk-green-energy-projects-to-benefit-from-10bn-foreign-investment-19-10-2021/ 5 comments europe
- Black holes surrounded by massive energy harvesting structures could fuel alien civilizations https://mesonstars.com/space/black-holes-surrounded-by-massive-energy-harvesting-structures-could-fuel-alien-civilizations/ 52 comments space
- Us being A Fossil Fuel Civilization Can’t be Blamed on Bitcoin. Nothing Rewards Clean Energy More than Bitcoin. Bitcoin Energy Is It’s Strength. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/why-bitcoin-may-actually-speed-up-the-transition-to-renewable-energy-2021-05-18?amp 17 comments cryptocurrency
- Saudi Arabia recently announced plans for a $500 billion techutopia mega-city Neom, with 100% solar energy, fully autonomous transportation, hydroponic farms, artificial intelligence, and advanced manufacturing, open to all races and religions - a “new civilization.” https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/24/saudi-arabias-techutopia-neom-will-have-to-reinvent-the-rules-to-succeed/ 97 comments worldnews
- There’s enough wind energy over the oceans to power human civilization, scientists say https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/10/09/theres-enough-wind-energy-over-the-oceans-to-power-human-civilization-scientists-say/?utm_term=.9f59f5dfb5f9 113 comments technology
- There’s enough wind energy over the oceans to power human civilization, scientists say https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/10/09/theres-enough-wind-energy-over-the-oceans-to-power-human-civilization-scientists-say/?utm_term=.9f59f5dfb5f9 13 comments science
- There’s enough wind energy over the oceans to power human civilization, scientists say https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/10/09/theres-enough-wind-energy-over-the-oceans-to-power-human-civilization-scientists-say/ 17 comments technology
- The Most Liberal (Entertainment, Civil Rights, Personal Injury) And Conservative (Oil & Gas, M&A, Energy) Lawyers By Practice Area; Law Professors Are The Most Liberal Among 61 Groups http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2015/08/the-most-liberal-entertainment-civil-rights-personal-injury-and-conservative-oil-gas-ma-energy-lawye.html 6 comments law
- Everything you've heard about fossil fuels may be wrong: The future of energy is not what you think it is -- "Suddenly it appears that there may be enough accessible hydrocarbons to power industrial civilization for centuries, if not millennia, to come." http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/31/linbd_fossil_fuels/index.html 92 comments business
- Media goes nuts over Elon Musk calling for more oil and gas, but here’s the full quote. "I do think we actually need more oil and gas for civilization to function. But simultaneously moving fast to a sustainable energy economy." The full quote is not being widely reported. https://electrek.co/2022/08/29/media-goes-nuts-elon-musk-calling-more-oil-and-gas-full-quote/ 15 comments energy
- Statement from President of France on the link between 'civil' nuclear energy and nuclear weapons: "Without civilian nuclear, no military nuclear, without military nuclear, no civilian nuclear" https://www.elysee.fr/front/pdf/elysee-module-16825-fr.pdf 17 comments energy
- Jupiter Pulses With Energy Like 'Clockwork,' And Now We Finally Know Why: For 40 years, scientists have struggled to explain Jupiter's regular auroral X-ray bursts, which contain enough energy to power all of human civilization. https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3d577/jupiter-pulses-with-energy-like-clockwork-and-now-we-finally-know-why 41 comments space
- The Shift To Solar, Wind, & Electric Vehicles Is Too Monumental To Overstate. After countless generations of burning stuff for energy and light, we are entering a phase in human history where we can go beyond fire. Phase 2 of civilization (in an energy sense) is now beginning. https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/15/the-shift-to-solar-wind-electric-vehicles-is-too-monumental-to-overstate/ 89 comments energy
- The World’s Most Insane Energy Project Moves Ahead - Australia approves Adani coal mine, endangering the Great Barrier Reef and, well, civilization https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/adani-mine-australia-climate-change-848315/ 14 comments worldnews
- Teleportation is the theoretical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. Teleportation, or the ability to transport a person or object instantly from one place to another, is a technology that could change the course of civilization https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/12/teleportation-will-it-ever-be-a-possibility 8 comments science
- Recently read "Civilization and its Discontents" and Freud makes a good argument that civilization is really just the product of repressed sexual energy being redirected into productive means... Thoughts? https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/5xz2is/recently_read_civilization_and_its_discontents/ 8 comments philosophy
- The LHC at CERN has begun operations with collisions at 13 TeV. The highest energy scale or the smallest distance scale our civilization has explored. http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/05/first-images-collisions-13-tev 191 comments worldnews
- Charles Krauthammer: Did the state make you great? It is civil society, those elements of the collectivity that lie outside government ... the voluntary associations that Tocqueville understood to be the genius of America and source of its energy and freedom. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-did-the-state-make-you-great/2012/07/19/gjqabzoiww_story.html 11 comments politics
- Technology is extremely fragile, and so is the associated veneer of civilization, which only exists because of abundant food due to automated agriculture and a fragile web of manufacturing, packaging, distribution, and energy mechanisms. http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2009/08/kevin-kellys-panglossian-optimism/ 15 comments technology
- Earth is a node in the Universal Blockchain using on Proof of Stake consensus. The more energy civilization outputs, the more stake you have in block proposals. We previously used Proof of Work like most primitive societies and simply enslaved civilizations to generate the energy used to mine blocks https://medium.com/@oneofthemanymatts/bitcoin-was-given-to-us-by-aliens-and-were-a-node-in-a-universal-proof-of-stake-blockchain-e0f5b3ab0cc5 34 comments cryptocurrency
- Jeff Bezos predicts humans born in space will 'visit Earth the way you visit Yellowstone'. “This Earth can support 10 billion people. The solar system can support a trillion people, and we can continue to grow our civilization and grow our energy intensity,” said Jeff Bezos. https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities/581353-jeff-bezos-predicts-humans-born-in-space-will-visit 1039 comments futurology
- Wind turbines in the open ocean could in theory intercept more than five times as much energy as wind turbines over land. While in the winter, North Atlantic wind farms could provide sufficient energy to meet all of civilization’s current needs, according to new research published in PNAS. https://carnegiescience.edu/node/2248 900 comments science
- “There will be a point in the future where a civilization will look up and notice that everything is moving away. And if they have the technology to do it, then they will try to grab everything they can before it disappears.” says astrophysicist Dan Hooper, in his paper Life Versus Dark Energy. https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/the-great-star-heist-and-the-race-to-outrun-dark-energy 94 comments space
- US: '$6 Billion Civil Nuclear Credit Program' - support the continued operation of U.S. nuclear reactors — the nation’s largest source of clean energy. https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-seeks-applications-bids-6-billion-civil-nuclear-credit-program 19 comments energy
- Advanced Civilizations Could be Using Dyson Spheres to Collect Unimaginable Energy From Black Holes https://scitechdaily.com/advanced-civilizations-could-be-using-dyson-spheres-to-collect-unimaginable-energy-from-black-holes/ 51 comments futurology
- AskScience AMA Series: I'm Mark Jacobson, Director of the Atmosphere/Energy program and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, and author of 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. AMA about climate change and renewable energy! https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/m7ocl9/askscience_ama_series_im_mark_jacobson_director/ 324 comments askscience
- Why the Democratic Party Platform Should Call for End to Mountaintop Removal Mining: The Democrats can not speak of being advocates for clean energy, civil rights and the environment if they turn their backs on besieged residents in Appalachia. http://www.alternet.org/environment/why-democratic-party-platform-should-call-end-mountaintop-removal-mining 6 comments politics
- Michael Saylor: "I believe that Bitcoin is a massive breakthrough for the human race that will cure half the problems in the world and generate hundreds of trillions of dollars of economic value to the civilization ... Bitcoin is the most efficient use of energy in the world, by far." https://podclips.com/c/3mTlBP?d=2022-04-25&ss=r&ss2=bitcoin 87 comments bitcoin
- Physicists Verify Half-Century-Old Theory about Rotating Black Holes. The theory began as speculation about how an advanced alien civilization could use a rotating black hole to generate energy by lowering and then releasing a mass from a structure that is co-rotating with the black hole. http://www.sci-news.com/physics/penrose-zeldovich-black-hole-theory-08568.html 34 comments science
- Physicist Freeman Dyson died today at age 96. In addition to his many scientific contributions, Dyson was the first to propose sufficiently advanced aliens would likely build "Dyson Spheres" around their home stars, which are giant shells that capture most of a star's energy to power a civilization. https://astronomy.com/magazine/2020/02/the-new-search-for-alien-intelligence 627 comments space
- How Will Future Civilizations Survive the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe? Use the energy collected by Dyson spheres to propel captured stars in the opposite direction of universal expansion. By doing, so a civ could collect as many stars as possible before it’s too late. [arXiv paper] https://gizmodo.com/how-will-future-civilizations-survive-the-accelerating-1827395590 19 comments space
- Because of its rapid dimming(up to 20% over a matter of days), Tabby’s Star has invited speculation that an alien civilization had built a megastructure around it to harvest its energy. A new study however, suggests that the cause of the dimming is likely an uneven dust cloud moving around the star. https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/sorry-no-alien-megastructure-around-mysterious-star 47 comments science
- Lebanon's caretaker energy minister Thursday warned the country would plunge into "total darkness" at the end of the month if no money was secured to buy fuel for power stations. Power cuts have been common in Lebanon ever since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210311-lebanon-heads-for-blackout-as-electricity-funds-dry-up 3 comments worldnews
- Obama's latest Executive Order "updates the president's power to take control of all civil energy supplies, control and restrict all civil transportation, and start a draft in order for the military and non-military demands of the country...all for an insane war with Iran. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edwin-black/obama-national-defense-resources-preparedness_b_1359715.html 9 comments politics
- Life on Earth without the sun: the planet would freeze down to a certain depth, but the amount of energy contained in the molten planetary core could provide ample heat and electric power to maintain human civilization for hundreds of thousands of years or longer http://alfin2300.blogspot.com/2010/07/life-without-sun-yes-if-we-learn-to.html 36 comments science
- Whirlpool Wants Congress to Ban Class-Action Suits Tied to Energy Star Program. “By eliminating consumers’ access to the civil justice system, corporations will not be held accountable in court for swindling customers,” said Sarah Jones http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/business/energy-environment/whirlpool-wants-congress-to-ban-class-action-suits-tied-to-energy-star-program.html 62 comments politics