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To: Brumar89 who wrote (6160)	1/25/2004 2:21:50 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) of 20773

Did you see the windmill article I posted? 25% of the electrical power needs for the US ( based upon a conservative 30% effective utilization rate ) could have been bought by the $87 B we spent on Iraq. That's not R&D but based upon a proven, on the mountaintop deployment in Oregon. $87 Billion is a whole lot of money to find solutions. We aren't even looking. There is Helium-3 on the Moon and we have the technology now to fuse it. The only reason we aren't doing it now is because He-3 is incredibly rare here, but common on the moon. We'd better start some long-term planning soon for alternatives - my first undergraduate degree was in geology. Oil production peaked and China is now #2 importer. I don't know of anyone who waits till their kid is 18 to start planning their college fund.

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