I mostly agree with what you've said here.
I wonder if you would be so bold as to point out that profit driven business, in general can never fix problems, only treat symptoms of problems. Because if the problem was ever fixed, there remains no possibility of making profit. But worse, we have now gone down the road of actually creating problems, (By creating new "markets"), so as to have more symptoms to treat.
And since all profit has to come extracted from Earth, with ever increasing difficulty of extraction, what we are seeing is profit driven efforts exploding, to try to maintain energy flows, it actually increases the overall amount of energy being extracted, whilst each thread of profit driven business has actually less energy to maintain it in profit, with the effect that all are teetering towards bankruptcy, no matter how much profit they appear to be making, the loss of energy content of money is pulling the carpet out from under them, without them understanding why.
I think this is due to the relentless transfer of utilities energy business to domestic and communtiy solar.
Solar is a completely different kind of energy, with some very different effects that we have to treat differently from extracted energy, to understand how to use it most effectively.
For starters it comes for free, the sun never asked for anything in return for it.
Secondly it is added to Earth, whereas all other kinds of energy we might use, and are using, are all extracted from Earth. This includes even wind, hydro, whatever, if it doesn't come directly from the sun, it is something extracted from Earth, and there is always a cost for taking it out.
E=MC squared alone is all we need to see that converting things from Earth into energy involves the conversion of at least some of the energy to heat, heat which would not exist if we didn't do the extraction.
By the same analysis, using the energy of the sun to create anything other than just the heat it would generate if it was unused by either us or nature, means it has to reduce temperature. We literally can't put enough of it to use, if we really want to fix the energy problem, this is the only way we can ever achieve it.
On EV, tech it works for drone flight, but it can't provide a solution to full blown air transport, it is impossible to get the same or even a fraction of the long distance travel by EV airplane, even Rolls Royce have tried and concluded it can't be done.
The only solution known, that might work is hydrogen, but the cost of that blows it out of the park of any profit driven endeavour.
Given solar comes for free, and mostly to domestic and community users, rather than utilities energy companies, the only way to monetise that valuable, additive, cooling, clean energy is to issue money for free on it, as a kind of solar UBI. Not issuing this is actually devaluing money, since money is only issued on utilities energy business, which is down by up to 50% in some countries, due to the shift to solar by consumers. So money is becoming less representative of the only growing energy product, created from the only energy that actually cools by its use, rather than heats.
If / when we do issue this, we will incentivise and empower all to scale it up to 100%+ in a very short time, to maximise future stipend. We will be hanging panels from every available possible real estate. In that scenario suddenly hydrogen looks very different. It is techincally routinely possible now using standard equpment for a domestic and community scale solar installation to generate hydrogen in a way not only to back up its own microgrid, but also to build up excess.
Actually that excess is needed, in order to guarantee 24/7 backup, but even better this excess is worth revenue.
Imagine hydrogen being produced at that scale, it could easily funcionally replace fossil fuels, and comes with a whole spectrum of benfits we can only shake a stick at.
EVs and ICE vehicles of all descriptions are convertible with minimal engineering effort to use hydrogen.
That hydrogen could be available literally on every street corner - instantly refillable. If the water produced by the vehicle exhaust is saved and exhanged for the hydrogen refill, then water is filtrated and circulated to all places. And of course the air is constantly also filtrated and circulated.
And hydrogen converts to human consumable food (See "Solein"), consumption of which would remove at least some of our load from the conventional food chain, allowing the latter to recover.
All of this activity would result in a net cooling effect, no pollution, not even heat, when all is accounted for.
But it would be the end of most activities for profit, and probably the end of anyone's ability to maintain privelige by possession of capital.
But why would they want to have that, if they had even better benefits (Unconditional financial security), in a fully sustainable world, rather than still some financial insecurity in a dying world?
Further, no-one would want to work for bosses in that new world, no-one would need to. But we would not need to commit crime either, noticing that in the old world, crime is mostly just poor people trying to do business, to make profit. What is the difference between the money stolen by a company for unused services, and the money stolan by a pickpocket? I don't see much. Who has the right to set interest rates which depend on energy being stolen from Earth? A million questions like that are answered, by the new system.
Finally, we should recognise this will, if it happens, mean we moved from being a destructive, parasitic organism, continually extracting the energy from all life on Earth to a photosynthetic lifeform, constantly adding value to Earth, just like all plants do, only we would be doing it as a species.
I worked out in this mode we would pay back our energy debt to Earth, the debt ran up over thousands of years, all our known history, in about 40 years or so. After that, we would be like any plant that pays back its initial debt to Earth before it forms leaves, thousands of times over. Population would increase, but not in any destructive way, it would increase to come to an equilibrium like the growth of a tree, to maximise the energy it delivers to Earth, via its nutrients.
Money in our case would be our nutrients, transporting the currency of nature, from source to Earth. Like this we would be supplementing nature instead of subtracting from it.
The forces that don't want this to happen, actually want us to die at birth as a species, it seems to me.
Sorry crazy long reply to your post, I hope you wont see it as any attempt to eclipse, but to complement. You inspired me to write this, thanks for that, I liked what you wrote.
