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



On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, BMJ wrote:

Straydog wrote:

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There's been an on-going debate about how much petroleum is left and when the peak in production has occurred or will occur. Nobody knows if there any new reserves will be found, where they might be, and how large they are. Once the known reserves of hydrocarbons are gone, what's going to replace them?

At least with biofuels, there's going to be a renewable supply of feedstock.


I've already made, many times, the statement that if we took all the billions spent on CTR, and spent it on solar cells, then we'd probably have several percent of our nation's electricity supply converted to renewable energy by now.

One word: politics.


And, I'd qualify that as fadism (or, any and all progress; any and all high-tech-sexy solutions to any problem) is the one and only way to go.
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