[ExI] Lack of interest

[Stefano Vaj]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 6:30 AM, hkhenson <hkhenson at rogers.com> wrote:
>>but I think the main question is: who would be willing to fund such
>>a project?
>
> The first thing is to show the project has a reasonable ROI and a
> rapid repayment of energy invested in it.  The second is reasonable,
> the first is going to take some serious thinking.
>
>>You're basically talking about something with high investment costs
>>on an unproven technology.
>
> On a scale of the Iraq war.

Come one, Iraq war was proven technology with a high ROI... :-)

Seriously, I think that both space-based solar power *and* fusion
reactors are the ways to go (something which does not mean that
fission could not be to some extent a stop-gag measures, at least on a
equal foot with energy saving and "alternative" sources).

The beauty of all that is that once you have unlimited, cheap energy,
you might well go on synthesizing and using... oil, if you fell like
doing that, because, say, you like the smell. The technology exists
since the thirties. And imagining that you really would like to reduce
warmhouse gases in the atmosphere, the fundamentals would be in place
to engage in geoengineering projects to this effect anyway.

Stefano Vaj