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   Paul Aubrin to All   
   Re: If predictions fail your hypothesis    
   31 Jan 26 08:06:43   
   
   XPost: alt.global-warming, alt.atheism   
   From: paul.aubrin@invalid.org   
      
   Le 31/01/2026 à 00:31, Dawn Flood a écrit :   
   >> Each economic activity requires energy (kJ, kWh...). 80% of energy   
   >> production emits carbon dioxyde. Net zero by 2035 means a 5 to 1   
   >> shrinking of economic activity, a 15% economic recession each year for   
   >> the next 10 years. But the economic collapse will happen sooner, with   
   >> a big electrical blackout like the one that paralized Spain last   
   >> spring. Everything went to a stop in 10 seconds. Portugal was   
   >> impacted, and a small part of southern France. What happened : solar   
   >> overproduction, negative electricity price, solar producer would not   
   >> pay for getting rid of their useless production, they left the grid,   
   >> the grid collapsed. Lifts went to a stop. Water pumps stopped pumping   
   >> water. Traffic lights went off... Every thing collapsed in 10 seconds.   
   >   
   > And, when all the fossil fuels run out, then what??   
      
   Even at the current rate, fossil fuels can last hundred of years, and   
   nuclear fuels millenia (or more). The world population will naturally   
   start to decrease after 2050.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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