Well those sweet-ass trucks aren't gonna buy themselves
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Yeah and just imagine the car insurance costs for those apocalypse-mobiles. It would cost a small fucking fortune every month! How can anyone afford to drive one of those?
Do they ever explain where they get the gas for those things?
M E D I O C R E
Time to invest in silver paint.
WITNESS!
I never understood why they did not switch to solar power when the fossil fuel got so sparse.
Because the fossil lobby won and there is no renewable power source.
It's just america that chooses to live like that. The rest of the world juat goes on
Mad Max takes place in Australia though.
Few know the movies are actually documentaries chronicling the lives of people living in the Outback.
Outback is a funny way to spell Perth.
Because then they couldn't drive around in awesome frankensteined together muscle cars.
Reads like an advice: think long-term, start the transition as early as possible. So, basic rationality.
It would be interesting to see them update that with current data since global PV installations are estimated at 392 GW for 2023.
It is unrealistic to imagine that we could jump into a full-scale infrastructure replacement in one year. To set the scale, the U.S. uses about 3 TW of continuous power. A 1% drop corresponds to 30 GW of power. Our modest 2% replacement therefore would require the construction of about 60 new 1 GW power plants in a single year, or a rate of one per week! Worldwide, we quadruple this number.
What capability have we demonstrated in the past? In 2010, global production of solar photovoltaics was 15 GW, which is only about 6% of what we would need to fill a world-wide energy gap of 2% per year. Even on a tear of 50% increase per year, it would take 7 years to get to the required rate. Wind installations in 2010 totaled 37 GW, or 14% of the 2% global requirement. It would take 5 years at a breakneck 50% per year rate of increase to get there. When France decided to go big on nuclear, they built 56 reactors in 15 years. In doing so, they replaced 80% of their electricity consumption, which translates to about 30% of their total energy use. So this puts them at about 2% per year in energy replacement.
Pssh, that's just a picture of the beltway around DC in the morning.
I ride eternal on my old crappy bicycle.
I'm just saving some blood boys for the future.
There is not going to be MadMax. The rich people will have their reasons for wanting to colonize Mars or even go to Venus, as the CEO of the crashed Titanic submarine wants. We can be happy if we can leave the underground bunkers without a fireproof suit and oxygen mask.
The Mad Max open world game is so underrated. I bought it without much expectation because I liked the setting and then it was one of the few games I 100-percented.
Some kids will believe these memes. Won't save a dime and end up poor as shit. Then they can make memes and do it to another generation. Its self fulfilling.
For my generation it was adults saying shit like
"smoking kills? Yea right that's why my uncle Carl lived until 80 smoking a pack a day."
Yeah, people growing up the 80's heard about nuclear war and ozone layer and acid rain and lots of other stuff. People freaked out then too and lived recklessly thinking the future was lost. But most people just lived their lives and didn't go live in a bunker. That's what's going to happen here.
Life just sort of happens, even when the doomer memes get upvoted to the front page
Yup and life happens fast. You really only got like a good 15 years to "sorting hat" a good position in our society. Success is determined pretty fast between grades 10 to whenever we all finish school. If you're in an area with advanced classes then its even earlier.
The future is my money devaluatig because I can't even save for a fucking down payment for a house and now the EU is gonna make throw away my piece of shit ass car because it's too old.
Why not simply buy a house near public transport, in an incredibly expensive city.
Just sell some of your other properties if you can’t afford that one.
Please, tell me this is a joke/sarcasm
and now the EU is gonna make throw away my piece of shit ass car because it's too old.
Citation needed
Low Emission Zones
Lol
Parents: put some money aside. Government: pay taxes over that. Parents: do it with cash. Stores and others: we don't accept cash anymore.