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Solar + Fuel Cells = ?

We were thinking about putting solar cells together with very efficient fuel cells. It seemed like a clever idea. So we asked the Big Kahuna, Jay Hanson. He must have been in a really rotten mood, however.

Dear Jay;
We thought that once the solar cells were made, they could be used to create electrical energy forever. Then they would replace the energy it took to produce them, right?
Then also the solar cells and / or some additional techniques could be used the electrolyse water to get the hydrogen for fuel cells. What could be more hunky-dory than that?

The Big Kahuna replied:
"No. That's a popular misconception. The only valid studies that have been done (Odum and his students) show that solar cells can not support themselves. In other words, when global oil and North American gas "peak" by the end of this decade, this civilization comes to a violent, radioactive end. That's why I don't worry about biodiversity. There won't be any "versity" at all in a radioactive mushroom cloud."
. -- Jay

Why so glum, Jay? Look, here's the multipart solution. Admittedly it's far fetched. But it is nonetheless possible. Some in Japan are already thinking in these terms.
1.)    Media tells the truth about energy and overpopulation.
2.)    Population goes down while substantive energy conservation is instituted. Utterance of obfuscatory remarks, jingoism, and platitudes are made crimes subject to severe punishment.
3.)    Available dwindling energy sources, including fission, are used to produce solar and hydrogen energy source infrastructure. And that infrastructure is used as the interim solution for something else which isn't as yet on the drawing board.
4.)    Institutions and social modes of human behavior are given time to adapt themselves to new exigencies.

True, solar and hydrogen don't strictly pencil out ergonometrically. And true, fission fuel won't last forever. But with a population of four billion humans or less, this approach is not only possible, it is very do-able. It beats the heck out of Dr. StrangeLove, doen't it?

The biggest IF humanity has ever faced. In fact the biggest IF humanity could ever concieve.

Possible? Possible schmossible. Everything depends on plutocratic wirepullers. IF they really want Armageddon, they will make it happen by doing nothing. Make that continuing to do nothing. The situation has been well understood for quite some time, many decades. The status quo has humanity on a collision course with Armageddon. All they have to do is to give instructions to the Media to refrain from initiating the process by telling the truth. The beautiful thing about the Media is that it follows its directives very well. The beautiful thing about a democracy is that it can very easily be made to believe it is, in truth, a democracy.

Which will it be? Armageddon or Brave New World? When will we know?

When we hear the Media telling the truth, we will know that the decision has been made to choose a Brave New World.

Until we hear the truth in the Media, the status quo has humanity on a collision course with Armageddon.

The Media is the message.