{"id":54237,"date":"2020-07-17T20:32:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T01:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54237"},"modified":"2020-07-17T20:32:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T01:32:15","slug":"why-a-great-reset-based-on-green-energy-isnt-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54237","title":{"rendered":"Why a Great Reset Based on Green Energy Isn\u2019t Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourfiniteworld.com\/2020\/07\/17\/why-a-great-reset-based-on-green-energy-isnt-possible\/\">Why a Great Reset Based on Green Energy Isn\u2019t\u00a0Possible<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems like a reset of an economy should work like a reset of your computer: Turn it off and turn it back on again; most problems should be fixed. However, it doesn\u2019t really work that way. Let\u2019s look at a few of the misunderstandings that lead people to believe that the world economy can move to a Green Energy future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[1] The economy isn\u2019t really like a computer that can be switched on and off; it is more comparable to a human body that is dead, once it is switched off.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A computer is something that is made by humans. There is a beginning and an end to the process of making it. The computer works because energy in the form of electrical current flows through it. We can turn the electricity off and back on again. Somehow, almost like magic, software issues are resolved, and the system works better after the reset than before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though the economy looks like something made by humans, it really is extremely different. In physics terms, it is a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dissipative_system\">dissipative structure<\/a>.\u201d It is able to \u201cgrow\u201d only because of energy consumption, such as oil to power trucks and electricity to power machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The system is self-organizing in the sense that new businesses are formed based on the resources available and the apparent market for products made using these resources. Old businesses disappear when their products are no longer needed. Customers make decisions regarding what to buy based on their incomes, the amount of debt available to them, and the choice of goods available in the marketplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why a Great Reset Based on Green Energy Isn\u2019t\u00a0Possible It seems like a reset of an economy should work like a reset of your computer: Turn it off and turn it back on again; most problems should be fixed. However, it doesn\u2019t really work that way. Let\u2019s look at a few of the misunderstandings that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[3487,1233,1406,391,1232],"class_list":["post-54237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","tag-cycles","tag-gail-tverberg","tag-green-energy","tag-growth","tag-our-finite-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54238,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54237\/revisions\/54238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}