[quote=livinincali][quote=The-Shoveler]manufacturing is making a comeback,

One word “Robots” well OK, two words,

Automation.[/quote]

Make sure you have a inexpensive energy source. All units of productivity from human labor or robots has two components. Efficiency and total energy consumption. Efficiency is limited by the second law of thermodynamics and there’s somewhat limited gains to be made in that realm. Means total energy output is the more important factor.[/quote]

This is one area where the USA has been recently making a lot of progress, we are almost a net energy exporter, and are project to be a net energy exporter by 2020.
We have hardly even begun to explore off the west coast yet, there is enough underwater methane for several million years of our current usage as well, OK so there is a little heat problem.

I think we will get into geo engineering as a necessity anyway as there is very little likelihood we will mend our carbon ways (read as in no chance in heck, If we gave up carbon, China would double their output just because).