Re: Energy shortage

From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Tue Aug 26 2003 - 16:16:09 MDT

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    --- Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
    > Better to ask yourself if there is an economically
    > viable means to produce
    > transportation fuels using wind, sun, geothermal,
    > biomass, in sufficient
    > abundance to eventually, eliminate the need for
    > fossil fuels? If no technology to
    > produce these fuels seems at hand, then we need to
    > focus on exploiting fossil
    > fuels. We cannot fly to Mars on dreams alone.

    There are means being developed. They do not become
    economically viable with zero starting investment,
    but it has been argued that with varying non-zero
    starting investments, they can become economically
    viable enough to recover at least the monetary
    portion of said investments.

    Economic viability does not depend purely on the
    technology available, but also on the infrastructure.



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