For TOD readers who do not have any technology background, just realize there was a reason why the nerds in the engineering degree programs at college were studying all night instead of partying like there's no tomorrow and burning their brain cells on booze. Engineering is hard hard shit (to put it in Georgie Porky Bushie terms).

If you believe there is a real something you can call "Technology" and this "it thing" will save us, you are praying to the Tooth Fairy.

There is no Santa Claus and there is no "Technology". In each market sector there is an incredibly complex set of interlocked technology subsectors and businesses that by luck, sometimes click together. No matter who the hell they are, they all have to obey the laws of Mother Nature if they are building something real. If Mother Nature says you can't suck oil out of a conch shell, then that's the law of nature. No amount of wishfull thinking about "technology" and how "it" is going to save us will reverse the absolute rules of Mother Nature. Mother Nature does not "hear" the wish barks that come out of our pathetic oral cavities. After all, we are freak accidents of evolution and will probably obliterate ourselves fairly soon, thanks to the likes of Dan Quailbullshit Yergin and those that bow in his shadow.

Sorry for the vitriol. Shit begets more shit.