BIKE: Re: Energy update

[Patrick Goetz]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Scott Kurland wrote:
> > "Either we lay hands on every available source of fossil fuel, in
> > which
> > case we fry the planet and civilization collapses, or we run out, and
> > civilization collapses."
>
> Fry the planet?!
>

Yes, this is explained later in the article.  Most scientists tell us
we're already doing this now (well, sauteing the planet, at least).
Basically, the CO2 goes up, and the heat stays in.  Everything kacks
except algae, the algae starts eating the CO2, a few hundred thousand
years later things cool off again, life forms evolve and then eventually
de-evolve back into George Bush and whole cycle starts over again until
the Sun burns out and the planet turns into a crispy cinder before
vaporizing completely.  Capisca?


>
> The methane ice fields in the Gulf of Mexico contain more fuel than half a
> dozen Saudi Arabias.  Running out of fuel is a non-problem.  If you look at
> the cost of fuel in terms of percentage of income, it's dropping.
>


I myself am banking on Nubian perpetual motion devices combined with spice
from Dune World.   ........ what are you talking about?