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Re: The Limits To Growth
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Subject: Re: The Limits To Growth
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From: bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de (Bruce Scott TOK )
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Date: 14 Nov 1996 17:41:23 GMT
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Article: 15942 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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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.
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: 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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