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To: Oberon
but it appears doubtful to me that this technology will ever become really competitive with fossil fuels. Not this century, anyway.

This time last century, well maybe a little before, they didn't think fossil fuels would replace oats as a source of power for vehicles.

92 1/2 years is a Long Time.

By then we might be getting the aluminum from the moon and using solar energy to refine it, or the Jihadies may have nuked us all by then. (Presumably we'll have nuked 'em back, unless there's a Rat President at the time, in which case we'd ask why they hate us so much).

116 posted on 05/17/2007 9:27:46 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: El Gato
This time last century, well maybe a little before, they didn't think fossil fuels would replace oats as a source of power for vehicles.

92 1/2 years is a Long Time.

You misunderstand me. It's not that I lack the vision for new transportation technology; rather, I think that by the time we got all the issues resolved satisfactorily to make this particular technology viable, we will have already solved the problem of cheap portable energy with other methods, rendering this approach moot.

164 posted on 05/21/2007 5:58:45 AM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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