Exploiting our moon or any nearby planet as for anything that could
possibly benefit the greater good of our planet, is not going to
happen anytime soon.
As long as there’s another spendy tonne of hydrocarbons to exploit,
extract, process and sell to the highest bidder, no matters how
terrestrial tricky, environmentally risky, conniving or bloody from
proxy wars and stimulated civil unrest imposed upon those with any
cheaper alternatives, it will remain as our only viable option for
solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, and once again all of the more
renewable and even thorium or whatever off-world options will not be
taken seriously unless they can be artificially made to be at least as
spendy and/or more problematic than terrestrial hydrocarbons.
The good news is that we have at least another couple spendy and
somewhat bloody centuries to go before only the Oligarchs and
Rothschilds can afford such terrestrial fuels, whereas by then most
all liquid and gaseous forms of hydrocarbons will be extracted from
extensive fracking and those thousands of ten mile long and deep wells
that’ll make the wholesale spot-market cost per barrel or per unit of
energy equivalency worth more than $1000. Of course by then serious
blowouts will happen most every month, and a Happy Meal of mystery
protein is going to cost at least $100, as well as most everything
else well have become relatively spendy and high tech as all get out,
so by 2212 we might not even notice the ongoing sting of $100/gallon
we are paying at the pump.
However, if we had even the remote prospects of off-world
exploitations as to look forward to, this would at least give some of
us hope that in the near future of generations to come would have a
fighting chance without their having the karma of proxy wars and a
very unhappy mother nature of super-storms and those 9+ seismic
tectonics to contend with at the same time.
With a hundred teratonnes worth of water vapor (less than 2% of
atmospheric mass) that has to continually recycle, along with the
above sea level surface hosting a reduced volume of glacial ice and
compacted snow that has been aggressively melting more than getting
annually contributed to, is a wonder that more of our overpopulated
world with its poorly conceived infrastructure for accommodating its
pathetic lot of humanity that is so often naïve, contentious and
caught unprepared, is not a whole lot more at risk with their land
becoming unsuitable, such as having been eroded past the point of no
return so that the required recourses to stabilize and utilize such
dry land far exceeds the local geophysical and biodiversity capability
of what our tenuous dry land that is only slightly (6.6 foot in the
case of New York) above average sea level that’s clearly rising and
thereby can not possibly sustain us without costly and lethal
consequences that obviously can not be so easily avoided as the oceans
rise and global weather gets more extreme.
The other good news, as Greenland thaws and its mostly bare bedrock
surface with little if any topsoil emerges from under that heavy cap
of glacial ice, as even the crust gets uplifted due to the upper
lithosphere buoyancy and considerable reduction in ice mass, at least
eventually there will become those enormous fresh water lakes
surrounded by a mostly basalt and granite bedrock terrain that will
likely continue as to hosting an ample amount of ice and snow covered
above their seasonal snow-line or the new and improved glacial
elevation, whereas this and one other mostly frozen area of Earth will
become our future Edens of improved safety and sanctuary for humanity,
even though most of the global ecosystem is out of whack and its
greatly diminished biodiversity being at risk of extinction due to the
ongoing GW, AGW, pollution and over farming of just about everything.
However, if we can’t even manage to construct our homes with a basic
foundation and having whatever structure compressed onto its
foundation with essentially long steel bars and through-bolting so as
to hold these buildings as rigid onto their substantial foundations,
plus at ground level or below as having the basic pumps required in
order to safely utilize such easily flooded space, is why this kind of
wind and storm-surge damage along with loss of most all the
surrounding community infrastructure is inevitable. In other words,
demonstrating yet another waste of lives, time and resources that
should have been better spent by our parents and grandparents, instead
of procrastinated and passed along to the next generations that’ll
have even fewer options.
Since most everything of modern humanity demands a great deal of
applied energy (especially of typical recycling efforts that must
collect, sort, process, retransport and involve multiple agents),
seems to beg the question as to why better, cleaner and more failsafe
forms of affordable energy have not been developed when the technology
and expertise for such as existed for decades. According to William
Mook (ala Mokenergy) even medium or low grade coal can be efficiently
converted into a very high grade of liquid synfuels using essentially
renewable hydrogen made via solar and wind energy, with the secondary
byproduct of pure oxygen and otherwise spare electrons and even
distilled fresh water with its salts removed can be offered as yet
another secondary byproduct. This is not to say that any form of such
clean and renewable energy is ever going to be 100% clean or perfectly
failsafe, nor so easily produced that it would not be metered or
otherwise resold at a fair market price above its net production and
distribution cost.
Replacing our Steven Chu with a true Energy Czar w/balls might seem
necessary, even though his focus upon residence and appliance
efficiency along with his geothermal alternatives is at least a valid
option that’s within our technical expertise, although actually
proceeding with any effective plan is not on any foreseeable horizon
of offering us affordably clean energy any time soon, and not many can
afford paying half again as much for their homes and transportation.
So, there’s no actual shortage of good and spendy options, however
within this century we’re pretty much stuck with mass consuming
hydrocarbons and suffering the consequences, as well as having to pay
whatever the insider trading and easily manipulated markets can bare.
Perhaps this is why off-world exploitations as for mining for those
rare elements that could supplement our terrestrial needs and provide
a logical migration and continued expansion of humanity, as to living
upon or within other worlds and moons, is not going to take root
anytime soon.
The extremely nearby planet Venus may be considered as too hellish and
downright nasty for the closed mindset types that only adhere to
whatever their NASA and insiders associates have to say. However, the
only true motives keeping us grounded by not going off-world, is that
of our socially approved disparity with its greed and hoarding that
the rich and powerful along with their army of brown-nosed minions
think is perfectly fine and dandy as is, although the more unregulated
the better.
With additional global inflation, as well as little if any regard
towards protecting or salvaging our environment, whereas this method
of making do with our terrestrial resources will directly and
indirectly cause a greater percentage of humanity to perish and
thereby manage global population via the social disparity of
increasing strife, suffering and all sorts of premature deaths that
can be blamed on any number of natural and artificial matters, that
the rich and powerful can usually remain innocent and even manage to
benefit without fear of their being accused of wrong doings.
Of course the general public and especially of those privately
investing in what this world is most running itself out of, is also
offering us a reasonably failsafe investment bet, that governments and
their citizens will continually demand more and naturally expect to
always benefit from their investments. This works fine and dandy
until peak whatever is causing us more grief (such as the karma of
9/11) than good, or the environment is tanked due to sloppy
considerations that could have otherwise prevented most of the
artificial thawing, pollution and erosions taking place.
On the other hand, of having surpluses and other more affordable
energy options is what makes life worth living for the lower 99.9% of
us w/o those Oligarch benefits. This of course is a highly disruptive
interpretation as to what the upper 0.1% think is any good idea.
Therefore, going off-world for anything of constructive value and
future benefit is not going to happen anytime soon, unless brought
about by yet another proxy war.