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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Bilow who wrote (65317)1/11/2003 12:19:35 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
I absolutely agree there will stupefying strides in genetic engineering, but for energy production it will probably make more sense to directly produce solar energy than to store solar energy chemically by biotech means, because progress in development of solar energy won't simply stop at present day levels.

And who knows, fusion may someday become practical which could be the best alternative of all for this.

The ecologists wouldn't like seeing this country covered from one end to the other with GM plants, but in the distant future, I am pretty sure that this is what will transpire. And besides, there isn't anything more stately than a tall (GM) sequoia.

Very likely, someone will surely produce such a thing just to get in a future Guiness book of records ! In a sense this replacement of plants with GM varieties isn't much different from the fact that there is almost no "old growth" forest in many parts of the world, such as Europe, or even around here in Massachusetts. Already early warnings sounded about risking any genetic engineering at all have proved unfounded (research workers haven't been dying off of mysterious diseases so far), and with progress and knowledge, management of the risks will improve.
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