To: technomage
Sorry tech... I spoke to fast. I get tired of all the people who don't bother or can't do the math. The amount of energy this country uses is mind boggling and no amount of wishful thinking is going to get us out of the energy trap.
We are running out of energy and it's going to bite us in the a__ , um, buttocks....
28 posted on
11/03/2006 6:25:59 PM PST by
OregonRancher
(illigitimus non carborundun)
To: OregonRancher
The truth is: petroleum is the most efficient source of energy known to man. Alternative sources of energy are not
cost effective. I have personal experience with solar and
I find that it's only useful under certain conditions: The
area where you live is very sunny and your house is more
than half a mile from the nearest power pole.
To: OregonRancher
We are running out of energy and it's going to bite us in the a__ , um, buttocks.... True, but with 500 years of coal, and what, 30 to 50 of KNOWN oil (estimates are that the world has 250 years, but of course that just really a guesstamate) we have a lot of time.
Just turn the clock back (mentally of course) 100 years to see how far we've come.
Relax, when true economic pressure begins to exert itself, science will come through.
51 posted on
03/31/2007 10:59:22 AM PDT by
Balding_Eagle
(If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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