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To: quasar_1 who wrote (172)	10/25/2000 11:29:37 AM
From: olduvai5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

And too many just follow the yellow rubber line to their seats, not remembering to inflate their shoes... The best hope for the future lies in using petroleum we have for materials feedstocks and finding much more efficient solid state power conversion technologies. The Carnot cycle limits ensure that the long term consequences of using thermal power sources will not be conducive to survival. Fuel cells are a start, but are still part of the problem. Amorphous Si and organic PV materials are promising, but need huge capital expenditures to realize required efficiencies. We have the good fortune to be living in "interesting" times. I'm not a doom and gloomer, but I am extremely worried about the vulnerability of the world wide distribution system to climatic (and climactic!) change. olduvai5