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You better take an economics course. We would have a depression at least as
big as 1929. "basskisser" wrote in message ups.com... Calif Bill wrote: "basskisser" wrote in message oups.com... Calif Bill wrote: What are you going to do about the energy requirements of the West? Supply and demand! Simple as that. If we don't have it, we can't use it. Very correct. So we buy it and turn it in to a very good lifestyle. You think you would be employed if we ran out of energy? How many buildings and bridges would be designed and built? We require it for our economy. How are you going to supply the energy to run this country and the economic engine? Yes, I'd be employed. There would be just as much work designing new, more energy efficient buildings. There would be new technologies sprouting up to meet energy requirements using alternative means. A novel idea, our economy could suffice on NEW technology. The right wing just wants to keep us in the dark ages, as always. Hell, when motor cars first started appearing, people NEVER thought they'd replace the horse. Especially on farms. How many horses do you see on working, profitable farms today? |
"Calif Bill" wrote in message ink.net... You better take an economics course. We would have a depression at least as big as 1929. Once again, asslicker proves why he is the "KING of the NG idiots" "basskisser" wrote in message ups.com... Calif Bill wrote: "basskisser" wrote in message oups.com... Calif Bill wrote: What are you going to do about the energy requirements of the West? Supply and demand! Simple as that. If we don't have it, we can't use it. Very correct. So we buy it and turn it in to a very good lifestyle. You think you would be employed if we ran out of energy? How many buildings and bridges would be designed and built? We require it for our economy. How are you going to supply the energy to run this country and the economic engine? Yes, I'd be employed. There would be just as much work designing new, more energy efficient buildings. There would be new technologies sprouting up to meet energy requirements using alternative means. A novel idea, our economy could suffice on NEW technology. The right wing just wants to keep us in the dark ages, as always. Hell, when motor cars first started appearing, people NEVER thought they'd replace the horse. Especially on farms. How many horses do you see on working, profitable farms today? |
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:39:29 +0000, Calif Bill wrote:
You better take an economics course. We would have a depression at least as big as 1929. Have you heard of the Olduvai Theory? I'm not saying it's accurate, but it does provide food for thought. http://dieoff.com/page224.htm |
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:42:10 +0000, Calif Bill wrote:
I will answer yours even though you avoid answering mine. Build lots of nuclear power plants. Same thing we should be doing now. Wind and solar are not efficient enough to supply the countries needs. Then we could save the oil for the items that require them. And energy is not the only use of petroleum. I would agree that nuclear energy has an important role in our future, but we must be careful. Switching from one unsustainable energy source to another is not the answer. To survive, we are going to have to learn to live within the constraints of this planet, whatever they may be. |
"thunder" wrote in message ... On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:42:10 +0000, Calif Bill wrote: I will answer yours even though you avoid answering mine. Build lots of nuclear power plants. Same thing we should be doing now. Wind and solar are not efficient enough to supply the countries needs. Then we could save the oil for the items that require them. And energy is not the only use of petroleum. I would agree that nuclear energy has an important role in our future, but we must be careful. Switching from one unsustainable energy source to another is not the answer. To Nuclear energy is not unsustainable. It takes a miniscule amount of nuclear material (U-233, U-235, and Pu-239) to create a sustainable fissile reaction. |
"NOYB" wrote in message .net... "thunder" wrote in message ... On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:42:10 +0000, Calif Bill wrote: I will answer yours even though you avoid answering mine. Build lots of nuclear power plants. Same thing we should be doing now. Wind and solar are not efficient enough to supply the countries needs. Then we could save the oil for the items that require them. And energy is not the only use of petroleum. I would agree that nuclear energy has an important role in our future, but we must be careful. Switching from one unsustainable energy source to another is not the answer. To Nuclear energy is not unsustainable. It takes a miniscule amount of nuclear material (U-233, U-235, and Pu-239) to create a sustainable fissile reaction. Mind if we bury the waste in your town? |
"NOYB" wrote in message . net... Remove the other nations competing for the oil from the face of the map. That should free up another 5 decades of the stuff. .......or..if the super wasteful US was removed from the equation...the supply might last another millennium. |
"Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... "NOYB" wrote in message .net... "thunder" wrote in message ... On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:42:10 +0000, Calif Bill wrote: I will answer yours even though you avoid answering mine. Build lots of nuclear power plants. Same thing we should be doing now. Wind and solar are not efficient enough to supply the countries needs. Then we could save the oil for the items that require them. And energy is not the only use of petroleum. I would agree that nuclear energy has an important role in our future, but we must be careful. Switching from one unsustainable energy source to another is not the answer. To Nuclear energy is not unsustainable. It takes a miniscule amount of nuclear material (U-233, U-235, and Pu-239) to create a sustainable fissile reaction. Mind if we bury the waste in your town? Once we pump all of the oil out of the ground in the Middle East, we can pump it underground in the vacant caves. |
"Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... "NOYB" wrote in message .net... "thunder" wrote in message ... On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:42:10 +0000, Calif Bill wrote: I will answer yours even though you avoid answering mine. Build lots of nuclear power plants. Same thing we should be doing now. Wind and solar are not efficient enough to supply the countries needs. Then we could save the oil for the items that require them. And energy is not the only use of petroleum. I would agree that nuclear energy has an important role in our future, but we must be careful. Switching from one unsustainable energy source to another is not the answer. To Nuclear energy is not unsustainable. It takes a miniscule amount of nuclear material (U-233, U-235, and Pu-239) to create a sustainable fissile reaction. Mind if we bury the waste in your town? There are places in the US where we can safely bury the waste. As to high level waste, there is really very little of it. As to radiation pollution, coal mining and burning releases exponentially more radiation than Nuclear plants. There are stable mountains in Nevada, Salt Mines in several other states. Encased in lead and glass, makes for a stable storage package. If you are going to live within the constraints of the energy available to us with out fission or fusion, then figure about 1/2 the people on earth will have to leave. Oil and natural gas is also used for plastic, medicine, fertilizer outside the energy area. Thunder asked about the Olduvai Theory, is a theory same as a lot of theories. Is not a given or provable. There is going to be a major upheaval in the world as oil production decreases. Middle East will be a violent place, and we will have to fend them off. They get their food and manufactured goods from the West and East now. But with no oil money, there are going to have to try to take over arable lands outside their area. They have not done well in the last 2000 years since they started as the cradle of civilization, been going downhill since. They could learn from the Israelis on how to produce food in less than ideal conditions and with brackish water. But religion and extremists prevent that. 50-100 years from now will be very interesting times for mankind. Hope they survive. |
"Calif Bill" wrote in message ink.net... "Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... "NOYB" wrote in message .net... "thunder" wrote in message ... On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:42:10 +0000, Calif Bill wrote: I will answer yours even though you avoid answering mine. Build lots of nuclear power plants. Same thing we should be doing now. Wind and solar are not efficient enough to supply the countries needs. Then we could save the oil for the items that require them. And energy is not the only use of petroleum. I would agree that nuclear energy has an important role in our future, but we must be careful. Switching from one unsustainable energy source to another is not the answer. To Nuclear energy is not unsustainable. It takes a miniscule amount of nuclear material (U-233, U-235, and Pu-239) to create a sustainable fissile reaction. Mind if we bury the waste in your town? There are places in the US where we can safely bury the waste. As to high level waste, there is really very little of it. As to radiation pollution, coal mining and burning releases exponentially more radiation than Nuclear plants. There are stable mountains in Nevada, Salt Mines in several other states. Encased in lead and glass, makes for a stable storage package. If you are going to live within the constraints of the energy available to us with out fission or fusion, then figure about 1/2 the people on earth will have to leave. Oil and natural gas is also used for plastic, medicine, fertilizer outside the energy area. Thunder asked about the Olduvai Theory, is a theory same as a lot of theories. Is not a given or provable. There is going to be a major upheaval in the world as oil production decreases. Middle East will be a violent place, and we will have to fend them off. They get their food and manufactured goods from the West and East now. But with no oil money, there are going to have to try to take over arable lands outside their area. They have not done well in the last 2000 years since they started as the cradle of civilization, been going downhill since. They could learn from the Israelis on how to produce food in less than ideal conditions and with brackish water. But religion and extremists prevent that. 50-100 years from now will be very interesting times for mankind. Hope they survive. The end of oil reservees in the near future has been predicted for years. THe fact is that there are fstill plenty of sources that are currnetly not economical to develop. As the readily available sources become scarcer, those known deposits will become economically viable, as will alternate energy sources.......synthetics, etc. |
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