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Re: The Limits To Growth



David Lloyd-Jones (dlj@inforamp.net) wrote:
: bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de (Bruce Scott TOK ) wrote:

: >I repeat my comment about energy stocks.  I note that it went unanswered.

: Energy is not a stock, it's a flow.  Incoming sun is a high fraction
: of a horsepower per square yard.  Uranium and geothermal are both
: there for the next few billion years.  In due course we shall no doubt
: tap the solar wind.  In the meantime, we've got enough gas, oil, coal
: and peat to last us a few hundred years at an American scale of
: consumption, unlikely though that scale is to become general.
:  
: Not a problem.

Wow!  I am really quite amazed and will give you the chance to state
that this blunder was merely the result of being tired or somesuch.

Energy is a stock.  Power is the flow.

I repeat my comment about the drawdown of energy stocks.  Maybe Mike or
John (who I think really do somewhere have the numbers) will answer.  I
think they both understand the difference between energy and power.

--
Mach's gut!
Bruce Scott, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de
       
Remember John Hron:       http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hron-john/



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