Economics relies partially on shortage to set price. What do you do if something is abundant? Do you pay for air? No. If energy was as plentiful as air, would you pay for it? No.
We can do this. We are literally swimming in energy right now. It is merely unusable with our current infrastructure, which relies on short supply/labor intensive coal oil and nuclear fuel, even though these things pollute heavily and cause considerable social disturbance.
We can build 8Hz resonators for the Schuman field of earth, or use motionless electromagnetic generators, or water splitting vehicles, to efficiently [w]ring energy from this field into our cars, houses, factories. It would cost as much as the machine required to translate the energy. That cost would be expressed in hours of labor and in pounds of certain materials, and their shipping. But not by their scarcity since no scare resources would be used.
The resultant universal quality of life would be fantastic. The price of all goods would become insubstantial. Your strength would be meaningless in labor. 3D printing nanorobotics could produce all the organized goods we need, leaving us to do computer codework, engineering, or various manual labor, all of which would be equally as free of non-apparent/compensated material value.
Sunday, September 24, 2006
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