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Originally Posted by Flames0910
The comparison I've seen circulating is that this movie is so old, that it would be like having done a report on cellphones in 2000 (just a few years after the first iPhone), and then releasing it in 2010 with the claim that smartphones are too expensive, have too little storage, and people prefer real keyboards.
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Right, and thats all well and good I suppose if your takeaway from the entire thing was just an isolated 'gotcha!'
But it seems to me that the underlying premise is a real inquisition about what truly constitutes 'Green Power' and 'Renewable Energy.'
Your electric car is swell and all but if you have to incinerate orphans to power it then maybe its a little less good?
Should we really be concentrating on whether our processes are consuming more power than they're creating and how to rectify that? Are there agendas at play that dont necessarily coincide with the ethose of clean, renewable energy? If something seems inherently stupid on the face of it, like burning wood for power, is there more to know here? Should we look deeper? Maybe wood shouldnt be classified as 'renewable' because while thats effectively true its not really in keeping with the spirit of what is attempting to be accomplished.
The hypocrisy and inaccuracy of the effectiveness of Solar and Wind power and yet the relentless promotion of these methods as solutions as opposed to complete boondoggles?
I find that last one most interesting, largely because of the time gap in the film because the issues presented about Solar and Wind, despite being 10 years old, are no closer to being resolved. Those particular methods seem like a practical joke and the people who fell for it are so embarrassed at the prospect of being outed as idiots they have to constantly continue to double-down on it.
Or we can just focus on the historical inaccuracy of the electrical source concerning how a Chevy Volt was charged in Rural Michigan a decade ago. Thats whats really important here.