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Old 04-25-2021, 07:10 PM   #5518
fchase8
 
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Default Re: New Reality Seeds

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Originally Posted by arcanus View Post
Lenin 2 and similar enviro collapse hellworlds would have shaken UNIC and HL governments to the core, seeing Armageddon playing out in real life stops the can being kicked to future generations. Plus HL has alternate revenue streams to replace or clean up climate damaging industries.

Oil is largely purchased on an abundant Worldline for sale on other Worldlines, oil used for industry would probably be manufactured off-world.

Clean energy would be an area that reaches TL8+1 or 9 soonest because of fear, the acquisition of carbon capture, compression and storage tech would be lucrative and probably easy to acquire (steal/copy) than weapon tech.

However it’s an interesting thought around Nexus Oversight and Paralabs experimenting with artificial gates to vent emissions, although if you can off-site the exhausts you can probably off-world the power plants with a perpetually open gate that solves the emission issue.

Of course as John Dallman says it could create other problems.
Yes, perhaps the oil brought to Homeline is use for plastics and the like - like how oil is mostly used on GURPS Transhuman Space.

If parachronics are possible, then pretty much anything is - certainly advanced environmental science. Infinity could put some sort of super-cleaning doohickey at factories and other industrial sites. Lenin-3 electric cars means they don't have to be put on cars.

And industries we don't immediately think of as polluting could also move off-world. Livestock, fishing, even farming, could move off-world, saving Homeline from everything from overtaxed water tables to the methane from cow farts.
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