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[IronyOwl]

Yup, There's 3 ways of preventing * war.

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You forgot everyone dying.

That'd fall under decreased means. Hard to start a war when you, everyone you might recruit, and everyone you might attack are all dead.

Not that the Bone Wars wouldn't be interesting, mind you.

[Devling]

Liches will carry on the great fight for years after the last human dies.

[Loud Whispers]

Liches will carry on the great fight for years after the last human dies.

Fossil wars.

[Flying Dice]

Liches will carry on the great fight for years after the last human dies.

Fossil wars.

Fossil fuel wars. In the grim dark future there is only the sloshing of vast reservoirs of petroleum, the hissing of natural gas, and the grinding oppression of coal as these three entities struggle for dominion beneath the Earth.

[MonkeyHead]

I personally feel that the 3 fossil fuels would form some kind of evil carbon based axis in order to commit genocide against the renewable mechanisms of solar, tidal, wind and hydro. Nuclear power would sit in the corner doing a Switzerland.

[ibot66]

So that American wasn't killed, just sentenced to 15 years of hard labor, where he could die.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/world/asia/north-korea-american-sentenced/index.html
Perhaps North Korea actually listens?

[tahujdt]

I personally feel that the 3 fossil fuels would form some kind of evil carbon based axis in order to commit genocide against the renewable mechanisms of solar, tidal, wind and hydro. Nuclear power would sit in the corner doing a Switzerland.

My personal energy plan for unlimited nuclear power involves buying Greenland from the 56,744 (not a typo) people who live there, and then building some mostly computerized plants there. Really cold up there too, so coolant isn't as huge a priority.

[Sirus]

I personally feel that the 3 fossil fuels would form some kind of evil carbon based axis in order to commit genocide against the renewable mechanisms of solar, tidal, wind and hydro. Nuclear power would sit in the corner doing a Switzerland.

My personal energy plan for unlimited nuclear power involves buying Greenland from the 56,744 (not a typo) people who live there, and then building some mostly computerized plants there. Really cold up there too, so coolant isn't as huge a priority.

How exactly would you get the power anywhere else?

[10ebbor10]

I personally feel that the 3 fossil fuels would form some kind of evil carbon based axis in order to commit genocide against the renewable mechanisms of solar, tidal, wind and hydro. Nuclear power would sit in the corner doing a Switzerland.

My personal energy plan for unlimited nuclear power involves buying Greenland from the 56,744 (not a typo) people who live there, and then building some mostly computerized plants there. Really cold up there too, so coolant isn't as huge a priority.

How exactly would you get the power anywhere else?

Lossless cabling I suppose. Real problems are the fact that nuclear requires liquid water, and really, a melting core doesn't care wherether it's -30 or 50 degrees outside.

[Sirus]

I personally feel that the 3 fossil fuels would form some kind of evil carbon based axis in order to commit genocide against the renewable mechanisms of solar, tidal, wind and hydro. Nuclear power would sit in the corner doing a Switzerland.

My personal energy plan for unlimited nuclear power involves buying Greenland from the 56,744 (not a typo) people who live there, and then building some mostly computerized plants there. Really cold up there too, so coolant isn't as huge a priority.

How exactly would you get the power anywhere else?

Lossless cabling I suppose. Real problems are the fact that nuclear requires liquid water, and really, a melting core doesn't care wherether it's -30 or 50 degrees outside.

No such animal without supercooled semiconductors. And you'd need a hell of a lot of it to actually get anywhere; Greenland's kinda on its own rather large island, don't forget.

[Frumple]

How exactly would you get the power anywhere else?

Lasers.

Seriously though, haven't they been working on some kind of satellite based power transmission or summat like that? Know they've got wireless power transmission over short range, but I don't recall how far they've gotten in getting it longer.

Barring that or really long power cables, you could probably do something involving batteries of various sorts.

[tahujdt]

I personally feel that the 3 fossil fuels would form some kind of evil carbon based axis in order to commit genocide against the renewable mechanisms of solar, tidal, wind and hydro. Nuclear power would sit in the corner doing a Switzerland.

My personal energy plan for unlimited nuclear power involves buying Greenland from the 56,744 (not a typo) people who live there, and then building some mostly computerized plants there. Really cold up there too, so coolant isn't as huge a priority.

How exactly would you get the power anywhere else?

Lossless cabling I suppose. Real problems are the fact that nuclear requires liquid water, and really, a melting core doesn't care wherether it's -30 or 50 degrees outside.

No such animal without supercooled semiconductors. And you'd need a hell of a lot of it to actually get anywhere; Greenland's kinda on its own rather large island, don't forget.

If it's producing enough energy, then countries would be falling over each other to build such a cable.

[Sirus]

How exactly would you get the power anywhere else?

Lasers.

Seriously though, haven't they been working on some kind of satellite based power transmission or summat like that? Know they've got wireless power transmission over short range, but I don't recall how far they've gotten in getting it longer.

Barring that or really long power cables, you could probably do something involving batteries of various sorts.

The only satellite-based power generation scheme I can remember involved satellites in geosynchronous orbit gathering solar energy and beaming it down to special stations in the form of microwaves. Nothing that I can come up with involves beaming energy up to satellites and then being beamed down somewhere else.

Batteries would still need to be made, they'd have to be fairly massive, and worst of all would have to be transported to and from Greenland. A single shipwreck could cause country-wide blackouts.

[GlyphGryph]

Increasing possible costs.  (MAD) 
Decreasing gains.             (I dunno what works here. Scorched Earth?)   
Reducing the means.         (Sanctions, EGCS, ....)

Best way of decreasing gains is to make yourself more valuable as a friend than as an enemy.

[10ebbor10]

How exactly would you get the power anywhere else?

Lasers.

Seriously though, haven't they been working on some kind of satellite based power transmission or summat like that? Know they've got wireless power transmission over short range, but I don't recall how far they've gotten in getting it longer.

Barring that or really long power cables, you could probably do something involving batteries of various sorts.

The only satellite-based power generation scheme I can remember involved satellites in geosynchronous orbit gathering solar energy and beaming it down to special stations in the form of microwaves. Nothing that I can come up with involves beaming energy up to satellites and then being beamed down somewhere else.

Batteries would still need to be made, they'd have to be fairly massive, and worst of all would have to be transported to and from Greenland. A single shipwreck could cause country-wide blackouts.

The problem with the wireless transmission is that it has a significant loss percentage (more than 20%). Requires massive sending and recieving arrays. (1km sending, 10km* recieving), and jams all sattelites that move between either of the arrays.