<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>I think Eugen has not accounted for the transformative nature of cold fusion that will be unleashed by the inevitable collapse of the political power of big oil once peak oil has passed and the politicians no longer need to subdue the technology to help their greasy friends.</div><div><br></div><div>I got this of a Web site that I trust at least as much as the oil drum, so it must be true!</div><div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:75%;color:#575757">Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G Touch</div></div> <br>John Clark <johnkclark@gmail.com> wrote:<br><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org" target="_blank">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> Malthus failed because he didn't anticipate shift from biofuels to fossil, and Liebig (artificial fertilizer). <br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Predictions would be easy if you knew what to anticipate. Are you certain you're smarter than Malthus and know what to anticipate, more specifically would you bet your life that you know the one and only solution to our energy problem?<br>
<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">> Genetic engineering is a high-technology item.<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes. <br></div><br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"> > It also can't do a damn thing about thermodynamics.<br></blockquote><div><br>What the hell? Life has made good use of thermodynamics over the last 3.5 billion years and I don't know why we'd want to do something about it now.<br>
<br> John K Clark<br></div><br><br></div></div></div></div>
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