Re: Art, where's the buzz on nanotech saving America today?



On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Threeducks wrote:

Straydog wrote:


On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, BMJ wrote:



If anything, nano's dead and has been replaced by the hydrogen economy
and other high oil price chicanery cerca late 70s malarkey. What gives?
Have the spin doctors on Charlie Rose lost their will to b.s. till they
drop?


It isn't so much the hydrogen economy but anything to do with climate change and what can be done to reduce its effects. You may have noticed that biofuels


In Brazil, 20% of what goes into gastanks of cars is bio-ethanol. Today. Already. And, just about market priced with gas. No fantasy. All reality.


I'm not convinced this stuff is the way to go. It's more expensive than regular gasoline, and you get fewer MPG.

Do you deny that there will one day be a planet earth and the remaining petroleum will either be already burned up or so prohibitively expensive that we will have no choice but to burn something else, whether it be coal or renewable? Surely even if you made the assumption that all of the earth is pure oil, then at our present burn rate any kid who can calculate simple algebra would be able to predict the day when it will all be burned up.

The guys who are basically
converting garbage to ethanol may have a market (and I applaud their efforts), but the idea of growing corn to make ethanol is a dumb one.

We'd better start somewhere and Brazil is ahead of us. I also heard on NPR radio some years ago that, of all places, Kenya generates more percapita electricity by solar cells than anywhere else in the world.

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