The Second Energy Revolution, can we make it happen?

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In 2010 I was very interested in the concept of empathy, and read the book "The empathic civilization" by Jeremy Rifkin. It wasn't what I expected. This was the first time I encountered the idea of global warming--now called climate change.

I bought the idea, hook and sinker, and did what I always do in cases like this, search for data to corroborate it. What I found was shocking to say the least. If what I found out is right, we were not going towards global warming but we were late for the next glaciation according to the geological data. And the climate evolution of the planet was tied up to the sun's activity, not our tempering on the surface.

Now, if we were going to higher temperatures, we could be in bad shape, but high temperatures and high CO2 means lots and lots of food around. On the other hand, a glaciation means that the whole most populated and rich part of the globe would have to relocate to the tropics or perish. I'm not sure if and when something like this can happen, but it gave me the hint that like it happens with the financial system, things are fishy to say the least.

In all these years I've seen in dismay how the whole climate change agenda was pushed and it always had the same angle: asymmetric restriction. But nothing to really solve the problem as a collective if it were true--I mean, first thing you have to do if you are worried about climate change is to stop using private jets, don't you think?

Now lets talk about the First Energy Revolution. When was that? it was called the Industrial Revolution. But industry was a side effect. The core was energy. Energy is in the heart of every movement, and it's in the core of every transformation that we make around us to serve our needs.

Crypto is distributed systems of currency, and currency is a means to make things happen, so we can equate it with a form of energy. Now, under the restriction threats of the climate change agenda, we might need to take it a step forward and make the whole energetic grid distributed. And like with crypto it has to be a bottom up effort because those who control energy are not going to give it up on their own.

I don't know if climate change is real or not, I don't know if we are heading to the Tertiary and play with dynos in the back yard or to a glaciation. What I do know is that access to energy is the big equalizer.

Every time we open a faucet we could be generating electricity, every time there is some wind, every time we start the stove, not to mention the roofs and the sun. And this is with technology that it's well known at this time. I'm not going woohoo on free energy or anything like it.

In crypto we need electricity to function. Finding distributed sourcing of electricity seems to be a logical next step. Distributed energy is the Second Energy Revolution.

As the book says, we need to think global and act locally. Share experiences and support those people doing the hard work. For example there are great efforts into solid state batteries, non traditional generators, printable batteries, and the list goes on. Yes, some of the people doing this can be called crazy, but if there is a grain of truth it's worth looking into it.

Thanks for reading. :)

All comments are more than welcome.

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