[ExI] repercieve the economy [was: Engineering]

[ablainey at aol.com]

One thing to consider is that here we are talking in terms of chemically extractable calorific content. The actual convertible energy and true value within that piece of Roquefort could power your house for days/weeks/months if we had a 100% efficient extraction/conversion method. Imagine if instead we digested food at the atomic scale. How many usable calories in all those lovely atomic and subatomic bonds waiting to be cracked? Or cracked by cheap future energy technology. The kind we will be driven to build chasing efficiency (better profit margin).

 The energy having been put there by billions of years of atom smashing and clumping in the stars. As I said, the entire universe becomes energy/cash waiting to be exploited.
The cost of putting energy collection technology on the moon becomes insignificant compared to the future yield from all that cheese!
Today we say we don't have enough Gold/promises/faith to print paper to exchange for rockets to get to the moon. ?????? seriously ????????
We need energy to get there. Energy to mine raw materials, to produce rockets and to fuel the thing. We go there to get the waiting abundance of energy. It pays for itself a billion times over. So why all the intermiediary fiscal nonsense with gold and paper? We are not flying there on a gold powered paper plane. ;o)

 

-----Original Message-----
From: spike <spike66 at att.net>
To: rafal <rafal at smigrodzki.org>; 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:34
Subject: Re: [ExI] repercieve the economy [was: Engineering]


>... On Behalf Of Rafal Smigrodzki
>...
> ... Eating Roquefort releases a tiny fraction of the energy invested in
its production - does it mean I should stop eating it?

Rafal
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Ja, eating anything we eat releases only a tiny fraction of the energy
invested in its production.  The most astonishing example of the lowest
ratio of energy released in consumption to energy invested in production
would perhaps be diet cola, where the numerator of the ratio is nearly zero.

spike


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