> From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Jan Steinman wrote:
>>
>> There's just something about someone who claims genes are "selfish"
>> that gives it more punch,
>> than taking the words of someone who was so stupid he couldn't
>> predict the discovery of fossil fuel, and the
>> *temporary* reprieve that gave us.
>>
> ... it seems unfair to blame
> anyone for lack of prescience.
I guess you didn't see the little invisible smiley face after may
statement.
> When some nut discovers a way to spray sand with some cheap
> concoction,
> let bake in the sun for a while, stick electrodes in it and generate
> essentially unlimited, almost free power, will today's Malthusian
> equivalents have been fools for not seeing the next thing that long
> delays the inevitable reckoning?
"Essentially unlimited?" Hardly. Unless this "nut" manages to top
today's average efficiency of about 10%, we're still using nearly as
much energy that could be harvested if we covered all of the US with
solar cells:
http://tinyurl.com/57n7oc
:::: The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's
cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground. -- Kenneth
Deffeyes ::::
:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.EcoReality.org> ::::
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