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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ed Huang who wrote (7432)	2/11/2003 11:14:04 PM
From: ForYourEyesOnly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Hi Ed! Thank you for your response. I am glad that you agree on the importance of the oil issue and the Middle East. >If you could briefly summarize the oil situation and post >it for the readers here, I would appreciate it. I think it is definitely worth taking the time to study and fully understand this issue. Please try to select a few articles from those links, print them out, and perhaps read them bit by bit while you have time. You will gradually develop an understanding of the severity and importance of the situation. The Hubbert Center also has good articles: hubbert.mines.edu These articles are written by geologists with decades of experience, and you will learn more reading their work than any summary I could produce. >And how do you think the developments of the technologies >in other energy sources like sun light, wind, nuclear, >electric power etc.? With your view on Bushies motive for >the Iraq war would certainly help, too. This relates to the "net energy" problem. The quick answer is that we really don't have anything that could come close to providing the amount of net energy (consumable energy output minus energy input) that we currently derive from fossil fuels. There is a sort of "technology cargoism" that leads people to believe that scientists will solve the problem. The reality is that we are rapidly devouring energy resources that were gradually "saved" up in the earth over billions of years. In about 150 years, we have consumed about half or the earth's energy endowment. The situation is VERY serious. For problems regarding "renewables" (wind, solar, etc.) please see "The Solar Fraud" (Hayden, available from Amazon). Warm regards, Thomas