<div class="gmail_quote">On 25 February 2012 11:15, Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Congratulations, you've just rediscovered the energy trap<br>
<a href="http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8526" target="_blank">http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8526</a><br>
and the energy cliff <a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/node/46579" target="_blank">http://www.energybulletin.net/node/46579</a><br>
which very few people do on their own.<br>
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And therein lies the core of our problems: most people do<br>
not realize that time is running out, and increasingly<br>
heroic measures are required to climb out of the trap<br>
the longer you wait while our muscle withers. Long-term<br>
prognosis of such behaviour is unfavorable.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>I see the point, and wonder whether in fact we are not already in such a trap.<br><br>OTOH, rather than going for a replacement with lower-EROI alternatives which is becoming increasingly unlikely for the reasons explained therein, perhaps we should make use of whatever resources we can still put on the table for breakthrough-oriented research programmes.<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>