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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Snowshoe who wrote (73220)4/12/2010 2:05:13 AM
From: Maurice Winn2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Never mind indium, in Avatar, they were after unobtainium, and felled the tree to get it.

The obvious answer was not to fell the tree to get the indium, unobtainium, iridium etc but to simply use the tree as firewood to generate a vast amount of electricity.

Similarly, all the hard work to come up with photovoltaic cells using various expensive elements would be better replaced with the easy job of planting loads of pine trees, watering them, then cutting them down in a few years and burning them or liquefying them as fuel.

Chlorophyll is a very cheap carbon-based photo-active chemical, with the carbon delivered free to the leaf, and water costing hardly anything. Dirt provides the trace elements required.

If crops producing oils were used, the oils could be squashed out for fuel in engines before burning the residue.

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