If some nice alien gave us the technology for an inexpensive, unlimited,clean fuel that powered all our vehicles, how would the world economy react?
by Dramatic_River_3381
If some nice alien gave us the technology for an inexpensive, unlimited,clean fuel that powered all our vehicles, how would the world economy react?
by Dramatic_River_3381
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Everything from gas station convenience, stores, to shipping companies , air travel, thousands of jobs in the employee sector, etc… would be affected . Would products and consumer goods become cheaper due to less shipping cost? Would the big boy, petroleum companies even allow it? What about the countries whose petroleum industries are their major income? Can I fly to Hawaii for the cost of the crappy airline food and just the pilots time?
It would be weaponized immediately
Scarcity is what drives Capitalism. No scarcity, no Capitalism. If we did have that tech, no one would be able to exploit someone else for labor.
This is why I have no hope for Disclosure.
Who cares. It could’ve the planet and the biodiversity on it. The economy has been the problem for along time
Probably with a war against the ‘demons’ (as that’s the seeming propaganda line) using a weaponized version of the free fuel technology.
I’d wager thats why we don’t know about them.
If we suddenly have clean, inexpensive, unlimited fuel & power production, assuming it’s made available to everyone and not hoarded by defense contractors or oil companies, the economy would probably flip upside down…but at that point, who cares? Unlimited inexpensive clean energy would be revolutionary.
Ermm speaking from a propulsion perspective and physics im currently working on one with my company for space travel and terrestrial applications
If it actually got rolled out not disappeared, then it would collapse the world economy.
Oil is still huge business, if it came under such a direct threat stock prices would collapse as everyone bailed out of oil. Mass starvations would follow in many countries.
So such a transition would need to be carefully managed, with stock trading suspended for an extended period and money created from nothing to bolster the system for the adjustment.
But in the end, it would be much better for the vast majority.
We don’t deserve resources. I hope aliens never give us anything. We’re a screwed up species
It would never take off for civilian use. Not because of a lack of interest, but because there’s no money in it.
Full US economic dollar collapse. It would be worthless because the only thing propping it up is the oil. There’s a reason why they call it the petrodollar.
There is a transition happening. We will get this technology. How they apply this and integrate will be the real question.
Would be interesting to witness since different countries have different relationships with Oil and Gas. There would be an attempt by the oil industry to stamp it out by every means necessary, but some countries would just give them the finger and immediately move off that crap onto the new stuff. Some of those countries might be invaded to keep them on oil though. Others won’t get invaded (think Germany or the Netherlands, etc.).
Someone would get paid an awful lot of money to forget about it.
Im sure some billionaires & government would try to seize it & get payment out of it somehow
They would probably kill themselves soon after and all there “findings” would be “lost”
The government would seize it and weaponize it
The nice alien would find itself in an oil drum tied to an anchor
That would kick the ruling family bees nest
Why do you think there has been all this secrecy, we’ve probably had zero-point energy for decades but it would crash almost every major industry on the planet if they released it.
True believers would say this has already happened through recovering downed alien crafts.
It was weaponized and profited upon.
The world would react the exact way that it currently is.
I think that all ready did.
Oil would go the same way as the horse and buggy went. Sure.. blacksmiths and hay growers slowly went out of business to be replaced with jiffy lubes and gas stations. It would be the same with alien power tech. Gas stations would scramble to “ pump” element 15. Garages would train workers to work on element 15 reactors. Worldwide… everyone would have a cheap unlimited power supply .. no more oil wars. They would would adapt and change as it did when oil was pushing out the hay burning horses.
The irony. Aliens don’t exist and the technology you talk about is the governments and they sold you the idea of aliens so that they wouldn’t have to give you that technology.
People care more about the economy than freeing humanity from limited energy
The thing about aliens, they don’t care about humans. There is no great debate on the mothership about giving the humans access to technology. They probably left plenty of clues and we are too self-absorbed to figure it out anyway.
Imagine being an ant in a big anthill with all your ant friends doing ant things, a mile away from the nearest road. If a human was out hiking and came upon the anthill, there is an equal chance the human would observe for a while and leave, walk past without noticing, or stomp the crap out of the anthill to see the chaos. No chance the human would leave a bit of technology hoping the ants would evolve.
Humans are the ants doing ant things, and aliens driving along a dusty desert road couldn’t care less about the random anthill in the desert.