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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (5283)	4/4/2006 4:10:33 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218660

SoT, you are confusing "clean" with no CO2. <the first the very first really clean plant to burn coal profitably and produce electricity goes on stream in 2010 > I consider CO2 a plant nutrient, not a pollutant. I consider that carbon belongs in the ecosphere, not the limestone, coal, gas and oil graves in which it has been trapped for eons. CO2 is increasing water supplies as plants need less water with the higher CO2 levels. So runoff increases and ground water levels increase and what is borderline desert will become borderline green, which will help keep the world warm. We have stymied the next ice-age which was about to descend on us. What a close call that was. We might still be too late and we could get a snap into glaciation at any time. But we might have just held it off. Fingers crossed. Get out there and burn more fuel. There have always been coal-fired power stations. They are an excellent alternative to oil and will continue to be developed. I have got zero worries about oil running out, or even getting too expensive and disrupting economies. As oil is being replaced, the supply of oil is actually increasing, not decreasing. The big drop in demand for oil will occur when Peak People occurs, which, when you look at Japan, Korea, China, India, Europe and elsewhere, won't be long from now and could even be at the end of this year [if avian flu gets going, which doesn't seem likely for this year since it's already April and it hasn't started spreading in humans]. In the absence of such a pandemic, or major genocidal war, Peak People will be in about 20 years. Japan and Germany are already on the way down [Germany if you exclude the Islamic Jihad component]. Italians have been having well below replacement numbers of children for years. Africa's vast population boom over the last 30 years has reached limits of political stability and with AIDS and other problems is likely to drop. Insulation is available now. Small cars are available now. Nobody needs to wait until 2025 for those. Segways are in the shops and for sale on eBay. Bicycles too. No worries! Mqurice