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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Moominoid who wrote (12330)12/31/2001 12:05:43 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
My bet is on copycatting the clorophil-based approach mother nature took to convert photons to ATP. That energy conversion ladder is very much impossible to beat(*). Of course replacing Fe for something else would be of advantage for mass production. Still, PGM ... can you make a cheaper suggestion (g)? Like Se... And Si could also turn to be of some use.

A poignant Q: what's wrong with the plain old vegetation? A: Emissions? wrong... Nothing is wrong with any of the alternatives. It's just the damn II. law of thermodynamics. Whatever the bed covers, something will always stick out from beneath - humanity has gotten big enough to make itself felt. Example: once the number of degrees of freedom went from one (everybody smokes) to two (smokers / nonsmokers), every place had to compartmentalize into smoking/nonsmoking sections - "until such time when NAmerica turns 100% nonsmoking and Asia becomes the smoking section of the world". Which, again, is the same s*t, just repackaged.

Re Frankfurt/Main - drop me a PM, if you need anything or just to have a local phone kwatch.

dj
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