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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (4559)	8/11/2006 11:45:01 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 24213

A computer scientist explains why computers won't be sustainable in the Post-Carbon Age, and offers some suggestions on peak oil and the preservation of knowledge: The fragility of microprocessors A project to preserve knowledge may be unable to continue in an unstable society beset with power outages, hunger, and crime. Once rationing and shortages begin, agriculture and other essential services will receive the most energy. Scientists will be unemployed. It is very likely that resource wars will erupt all over the globe, so the military will be taking a large portion of the dwindling energy resources as well. The time to begin is now, before we begin the inexorable retreat to wood as civilizations’ main energy source. energybulletin.net