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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Corky Scott" wrote in message
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I read a really depressing article about the future of oil several
days ago. There does not appear to be any viable substitute for oil
based energy at this time or on the horizon, not at the colossal
amounts we consume per day now anyway.

Considering that we have anywhere from 40 to 200 years of known reserves,
and that breakthroughs happen with considerable frequency, I'd say whoever
wrote the article was pushing an agenda. The history of mankind has been
laced with such hysterics.


The "years of known reserves" is a very tricky number. To get an answer,
you have to project the rate of consumption and what those consumers will
pay. (At one million $ per barrel, we have an infinite supply whereas the
number of years of reserves at $10 per barrel is zero.)

The jokers in the deck are China and India both rapidly becoming first world
economies. If their consumption curve follows the rest of the
industrialized world, we are in very big trouble indeed.

Nuclear, anyone?

Bill Daniels

"Bill Daniels" wrote in message ...
The jokers in the deck are China and India both rapidly becoming first
world
economies. If their consumption curve follows the rest of the
industrialized world, we are in very big trouble indeed.

Nuclear, anyone?

Nuke China and India? Well... If you *insist*...
politically-incorrect-grin

We just aren't hurting enough yet for any change. Business as usual,
until we can't take it anymore.. Then the world will scramble.
Whatever happened to fusion?

Bill Daniels wrote:
"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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Nuclear, anyone?

Bill Daniels

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Whatever happened to fusion?

Fusion works real well, except for a little problem with excess heat production :-)

The people at Oak Ridge did extensive research into the issue of "cold fusion"
since about 1970. Over 20 years later, they had still not licked the problem of
keeping the plasma from burning a hole in the containment chamber. I don't know
if they're still at it -- my father (who worked there) died some time back.

George Patterson
Whosoever bloweth not his own horn, the same shall remain unblown.