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

Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
Straydog wrote:

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Kamal R. Prasad wrote:


Threeducks wrote:

BMJ wrote:

Threeducks wrote:


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If the price of gas in Europe ($5/gal?) ever came into widespread pricing


how far are you from that? How could a fungible commodity have 2
different pricings?


in the USA, you'd have tons of people go into farming to grow that corn.
And, yes, I think, too, its a perfectly reasonable thing to do.



yeah -that will help you to improve your image around the world, and it
will also reinforce the argument that keeping immigrants out and
utilizing the land is what it takes to live a better life. That kind of
brings us back to what I had suggested originally -go back to what you
have been good at -either farming or basic research.

What people haven't figure out here is just how much land area do you need to cover with corn or whatever else to generate enough ethanol to replace gasoline as a motor vehicle fuel. It is a non-trival amount. Are you going to make corn a scare resource so I can no longer buy it to eat at the grocery store?
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