First of all I would really like to thank you for your various pro and contra arguments. The mentioned book is already ordered (obviously in english to avoid a loss though poor translation).
Your arguments really have made up and sometimes changed my mind.
But instead of discussing the future of energy and its supllies and who rules vice in the circle of fusion power I would like to ask for your proposal for a non military solution of this problem ?
I heard (unfortunately although looking it up i am unable to give you a link - Please help me out) that the average population age of Iran is around 27 ? Whereas the average age of the western states is around 40 or even higher ?
Do you think that the people of Iran will be able to overcome their religious fundamental system as the young are always attracted by the western vice and money ?
Please discuss with me.
PS: I would gladly contribute in a seperate thread about the future of energy. But i am frankly to lazy to monitor two threads at the same time.
Originally posted by kmax87I was thinking more along the lines of power stations but that
this ones right up my favourite conspiracy. OPEC is lobbying the western policymakers as much as US oil to not let the hydrogen economy install itself as this would mean and end to their way of life.
hydrogen does not have to be deployed in fuel cells either.(there is a concern that there is not enough platinum or some such rare metal required in the cell ...[text shortened]... be to retro fit gas tanks much like LPG or LNG into every car. h2o exhaust. bring it on!!!!!
answers a lot more questions.
So do you think Iran is facing a technology embargo to keep
them using oil, in particular their oil?
All the US has to do is sit on them long enough for alternative
fuels to be in place.
Originally posted by RochadeI find this to be an interesting phrase. Do you care to expand a bit ?
......... as the young are always attracted by the western vice and money ?
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People of all ages are attracted to a more comfortable and meaningful lifestyle .. its not just about vice and money. Many countries of the east and mid-east just does not allow that.
Originally posted by Rajk999more comfortable and meaningful lifestyle. yeah thats one side of the coin.
I find this to be an interesting phrase. Do you care to expand a bit ?
People of all ages are attracted to a more comfortable and meaningful lifestyle .. its not just about vice and money. Many countries of the east and mid-east just does not allow that.
The flipside is maximum stress (through mass information or desinformation), psycological coolness and isolation (what was the name of my neighbour) and before all that THE GREED.
Originally posted by Rajk999its quite possible. the russians for all their faillings were still brilliant engineers. they tended to build things a bit more robust than the US and their ability to emulate western products were legendary. witness vehicles such as the Russian Concorde, the Tupolev TU-144, which flew two months before the actual one flying just as fast as it did. okay so they stole the plans, but hey the kgb were usefull for more than just rounding up dissadents. from the little state relations i do know, hegemons come and go because other states around them learn adaptive and emulative behaviour to the point that the advantages that gave rise to the hegemon installing itself are levelled away until you have an anarchical international system again much like the snooker balls on a billiard table. at least according to neo realists anyway.
Had it happened .. Do you think the world would be lining up to buy Russian cars?
check this out http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/airdef/mig-29.htm
The MiG-29 is a widely exported aircraft, flown by Iraq, Iran, North Korea and Cuba. The MiG-29 has a few advantages over its more electronically advanced American counterparts. At about 40 miles apart, the American planes have the advantage because of avionics. At 10 miles the advantage is turning to the MiG. At five miles out, because of the MiG weapons sight and better maneuverability, the advantage is to the MiG. The weapons sight is a helmet-mounted system that allows the missile to follow the line of sight of the pilot's helmet. Where the pilot looks is where it goes.
would we have bought their cars? I think they would have come up with something.