X-Message-Number: 29224
From: "Mark Plus" <>
Subject: Re: Fullercrap
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:30:51 -0800

Charles Platt writes,

>As soon as the price of oil becomes a real disincentive, there will be no 
>shortage of substitutes. Desperation is a great fuel for innovation.

What "substitutes" do you have in mind, Charles? The corn-into-ethanol 
fiasco that doesn't make sense therrmodynamically, and that threatens to put 
poor Mexicans on involuntary caloric restriction as their corn crop heads 
north? Or the effort to churn up Canada's oil sands region into some science 
fictional Forbidden Zone?

Desperation for the energy to perpetuate human genes also turns on the 
warrior program in male human brains, as Keith Henson has pointed out. I see 
more evidence for this kind of response to contracting net energy supplies 
(dare I mention the two I-words much in the news lately?) than the more 
benign one expected by cornucopians.

Mark Plus

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