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To: one_less who wrote (72715)	6/17/2008 4:04:56 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 542155

Something like this working profitably on an industrial scale (rather then just at great expense in a lab) would certainly be a positive development. But its a big step to go from one barrel a week to millions per day, and the odds are long for any particular process to make that leap. I suspect that eventually something will, the only question is how long will it take, and related to that how big of factor will it be by that time. If it takes 80 years, and it turns out that by that time we have already largely moved away from oil, than it won't be nearly as big of factor as if it was ready in 10.