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To: Crabbe who wrote (4028)	2/6/2006 1:10:15 PM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218455

Hi Crabbe, The Flynn effect, the smartization of mankind, had only one reasonable cause, that is, improved nutrition. That of course has a maximum. Once children and adults have fine nutrition there's no more Flynn effect. Enter the stupidization effect. Societies which can afford to have everybody eat well tend to feed large families on welfare and ipso facto encourage child birth in situations where one more child is the last thing they need. So the duller the people the more children, ON THE AVERAGE, of course. Combine this with a determination of the rich to give as small amount of taxes for the education of the poor as possible, and we get a population less and less capable of generating scientists. Those are the facts of 2006. Slowly and gradually, the US, for example, gets more and more dependent for its scientists and engineers on the children of recent immigrants. That's fine for the new scientists and engineers. But in the future when their original countries are more economically and politically desirable the flow of such talented people will decline. As for alternate energy, directly or indirectly derived from solar energy, I have seen studies concluding that when all the harnessing is done the planet can comfortably provide about a billion people with enough energy for all their needs. We need more studies, more accurate numbers. Does your 15% efficiency of solar panels take into account the cost of manufacturing those devices? I have read studies which say they even are energy losers over their lifetime, because of the high initial cost. Seeker of Truth