Re: ENERGY: Singularity on hold?

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jun 14 2003 - 21:54:04 MDT

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    --- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
    > You have to use a significant fraction of the rangeland in the U.S.
    > southwest, but if my numbers are correct the economics seem *very*
    > favorable, so the conversion from rangeland to solar ponds might take
    > place very quickly. The price of steak may go up (as there is less
    > rangeland on which to graze cattle), but I think I come out ahead --
    > I fill up my gas tank much more frequently than I eat steak.

    How, pray tell, do you plan on collecting all of this methane without
    releasing it all to the atmosphere and REALLY causing a runaway
    greenhouse effect? Do you plan on turning the whole west into
    greenhouses? Have you accounted for the energy demands of such a system?

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