[TheForge] Hellooooooo!

[Darrell]

The "END" has been near for the last 100 years. Every time it gets really
close, someone invents a new "END" stretcher that moves it down the time
line.
Not that many years ago the "END" involved the depth of horse manure in the
streets of New York.
Alternative fuels, the way it is being done currently, uses more energy to
produce than it is worth.
We do have the technology to build small nuclear reactors that are safe (we
use them to power submarines and aircraft carriers) that could produce
alternative fuels as a byproduct of electricity generation. The problem with
the current nuclear power plants is that they are so big and expensive to
build that they never pay for themselves before they have to be shut down.

Darrell

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Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Hellooooooo!


>
> On May 6, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Demon Buddha wrote:
>> I've been working on that one for a while.  I have a few more years of
>> this insanity, then I drop out.
>
>
>
> You might not want to wait that long. I am reading The Long Emergency by
> James Kunstler. He thinks that we have already or will very soon pass the
> point of peak oil production worldwide. He thinks that the big oil
> discoveries have already been made and that extracting liquid oil from oil
> sand and shales takes too much energy to be worthwhile. Altho the price of
> oil may make such oil economically feasable the end price will be so high
> that we won't be able to afford it anyway. This at a time that China and
> India are just pulling up to the pump. Things could get hairy real fast
> once people start to realize that 'the end is near'.
>
> You can read an excerpt from the book here...
>
> http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7203633/the_long_emergency/
>
> Bob
>
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