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Re: Yuri receives hypocrite of the week award (was Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy)
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Subject: Re: Yuri receives hypocrite of the week award (was Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy)
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From: jmc@Steam.stanford.edu (John McCarthy)
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Date: 05 Dec 1996 04:36:36 GMT
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Article: 16950 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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In-reply-to: mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu's message of 4 Dec 1996 22:51:10 GMT
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Newsgroups: talk.environment, sci.environment, sci.energy, sci.econ, sci.agriculture, alt.sustainable.agriculture, tor.general
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <584v8u$382@gaia.ns.utk.edu> mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matt Kennel) writes:
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> John McCarthy (jmc@Steam.stanford.edu) wrote:
> :
> : Yes, but what is the actual numerical argument about how fresh water supplies
> : limit population?
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> Fresh water supplies are substantially constrained by geophysical forces not
> feasibly alterable by human technology, excepting very expensive and resource
> intensive electrolysis.
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> --
> Matthew B. Kennel/mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu/I do not speak for ORNL, DOE or UT
> Oak Ridge National Laboratory/University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA/
I trust Matthew B. Kennel is not speaking for those institutions,
because I can't see that electrolysis has anything to do with the
fresh water supply. It does have something to do with getting
hydrogen *from* water.
I also note that Kennel offers no hint of a numerical argument.
--
John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/
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