The 'On The Bright Side' thread..

Bandidoz · Post by **Bandidoz** » 23 Aug 2005, 03:07

There will be fewer Chavs on the beaches

RogerCO · Post by **RogerCO** » 23 Aug 2005, 12:40

There will be fewer beaches (sea level rise = less landmass, therefore less coastline)
Only a bright side for those who don't like sand in their sandwiches

newmac · Post by **newmac** » 23 Aug 2005, 16:33

My friends will stop thinking I'm a freak and actually look up to me for my foresight.

More importantly my ex may realise that I haven't being going off in a different direction because of choice (not counting on this one - are there any good looking peak oiler ladies out there?)

SUV drivers will lose a lot of money as they won't be able to drive and they won't be able to sell their cars.

My wood burning stove (not installed yet) heated living room will be a very popular venue.

I can rent out my Brompton when I'm not using it.

With the collapse of globalisation, perhaps the disgraceful exploitation of hundreds of millions of chinese peasants will stop.

beev · Post by **beev** » 03 Sep 2005, 21:39

Capitalists Notice Alternative Energy Thanks to Oil:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/09 ... ts_not.php

skeptik · Post by **skeptik** » 12 Sep 2005, 00:36

Hmm... Giant solar powered airships. Entire surface a high efficiency photovoltaic biofilm made by Shell.

Doesnt exist yet, of course, but I'd quite enjoy a leisurely 2 or 3 day trip across the Atlantic to New York... watching the sailing cargo ships go by 10.000 feet below while sipping a pint of Harveys on the observation deck. Very civilised. I've always regretted missing out on the interwar heyday of airships. Thats one technology we really should revive in a big way. If you want a heavy lifter to get stuff from A to B, I cant imagine theres anything more efficient, and another advantage is that huge runways are not required.

Mass air travel will be the first major victim on the decline side of the peak. The industry will, I guess, rapidy regress back to the state of its origins in the 1920's. Most airlines will go bankrupt and those that remain, in a much reduced form, will provide a means of travel for the super-rich only.

isenhand · Post by **isenhand** » 12 Sep 2005, 06:43

I used to be a member of a group that were very into airships and blimps. They saw airships as the transport of the future and so do I

fishertrop · Post by **fishertrop** » 12 Sep 2005, 12:51

skeptik wrote: If you want a heavy lifter to get stuff from A to B, I cant imagine theres anything more efficient

Waterways.

Though I think there could be a place for airships in the future.

hatchelt · Post by **hatchelt** » 12 Sep 2005, 13:56

it's gonna be hard having to leave this dank, miserable call centre, where the people on the phones are lazy yet act superior, where my boss is a money greedy whore and where i spend more time surrounded by people i hardly know then i do surround by my own family...yes sir, it's gonna be tough, but..i'm...i'm sure i can do it!

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 02 Nov 2005, 12:38

All the hard-working people in old terraced houses with chimneys will be able to get wood stoves, whilst all the upper management in gas-heated McMansions with no chimneys, and all the sponging chavs in council houses (who aren't allowed wood stoves because of the fire risk) will freeze.

Only so much spare wood to go round. Sounds like social justice to me!

skeptik · Post by **skeptik** » 02 Nov 2005, 12:57

Looking on the bright side... we're into November and the temperature outside is pleasantly mild 17C.

I dont have any heating on.

Think of all the money and energy I'm saving

snow hope · Post by **snow hope** » 02 Nov 2005, 13:38

Yes, it is amazingly warm this Autumn. Some how I think we will have a pay back......

aliwood · Post by **aliwood** » 02 Nov 2005, 15:07

snow hope wrote:Some how I think we will have a pay back......

This week I have learnt to use my knitting machine

Anyone care to place an order

isenhand · Post by **isenhand** » 03 Nov 2005, 12:32

aliwood wrote:
This week I have learnt to use my knitting machine

Anyone care to place an order

Well, ? you could do me another Dr. Who scarf, its only 4m long. My wife got fed up making the first one.

skeptik · Post by **skeptik** » 03 Nov 2005, 12:56

snow hope wrote:Yes, it is amazingly warm this Autumn. Some how I think we will have a pay back......

Oi You ...OUT!!... thats pessimism. Not allowed in here. Plenty of other threads for that sort of stuff...

peaky · Post by **peaky** » 03 Nov 2005, 14:18

isenhand wrote:I used to be a member of a group that were very into airships and blimps. They saw airships as the transport of the future and so do I

I love airships too and would love to see them replace aeroplanes. I remember seeing some program about the R101 and it showed film of a man in a DJ playing a grand piano in the gondola whilst people swished around sipping martinis

Until then I thought it was just like a flying train carriage!

I also saw a programme about this http://globalskyships.com/gss5.htm which I thought was excellent, though I'm not at all impressed with its current uses...

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