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Gold/Mining/Energy : PEAK OIL - The New Y2K or The Beginning of the Real End? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kryptonic6 who wrote (748)	6/10/2005 4:15:26 AM
From: Mahatmabenfoo	Respond to of 1183

-- MIT takes on world's energy crisis Thanks so much for that! The most optimistic thing I have read yet. Scientists has a capacity for analyzing problems objectively that most of us do not. Actually engineers more so -- their brains spend so much times worry about achieving a result (making a light go on) they are much less focused on making an argument that is merely logical and compelling (as is more than case of lawyers but also physicists). Engineers are no doubt as delusional and dishonest and unaware of their dishonesty as the rest of humanity on most subjects, such as where they were last night, but on whether the light is on or should go on they can't lie. That is I found so distressing the rallying cry of scientist about global warming. I know how serious a problem that is (especially in light of the cataclysm threatened if melting polar ice caps release methane, which REALLY accelerates global warming); but it's like the mental quirk that makes someone standing in a burning house refuse to leave until they find their favorite tea cup. Scientists organizing to "take on a crisis" whether global warming or the concerned scientists counting down to armgeddon don't have I suppose the best track record of affecting national policy; but if nothing else they have some influence in governement; and while a lot of peak oilers are convinced we can't invent our way out of this I still prefer to have a lot of MIT whiz bangs out there trying. - Charles