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Re: Yuri receives hypocrite of the week award (was Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy)



In article <584v8u$382@gaia.ns.utk.edu> mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matt Kennel) writes:
 > 
 > John McCarthy (jmc@Steam.stanford.edu) wrote:
 > :  
 > : Yes, but what is the actual numerical argument about how fresh water supplies
 > : limit population?
 > 
 > Fresh water supplies are substantially constrained by geophysical forces not
 > feasibly alterable by human technology, excepting very expensive and resource
 > intensive electrolysis.
 > 
 > --
 > 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/
During the last years of the Second Millenium, the Earthmen complained
a lot.



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