I hear you, Slag.

Years ago I was camping in the Sierras with two friends: one a physicist and the other an engineer. (I was a pot-smoking singer-songwriter so I don't count in this little tale.) They started talking about using solar power to light up Los Angeles. By their then-estimates, it would have involved using more copper wire than the world could supply.

We are nearing--if we haven't already passed--the time we'll be able to call on solar/wind power. It is very short-sighted on our part to presume we'll think--HEY, solar power. That'd work. We need to be developing technology in that area while also reducing our dependence on gas/oil/coal/wood as ways to heat water to turn turbines, etc. It's beyond serious and has been for about two decades. Let's turn guns and swords and uniforms into something our children's children's children will thank us for. Right now, I expect they'll curse us for turning 'the garden of eden' into a garbage dump. I can't say I'd blame them.