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Re: First Trillion



In article <01bbed5d$8832e980$fd8caec7@pro> "Rick & Bea Tarara" <rbtarara@sprynet.com> writes:
 > 
 > Kieran P Carter <kcarter@iastate.edu> wrote in article
 > <597n5v$4hu@news.iastate.edu>...
 > > 
 > > what about all the research into hydroponics?
 > > -- 
 > 
 > Takes water, energy, and space.  If you have enough water and energy then
 > you can probably grow a lot of food in high-rise factories.  The question
 > remains as to how much available energy and fresh water (of course with
 > plenty of energy you can desalinate sea-water--so I guess its mainly
 > energy) we'll have at any future time.  If we run into severe shortages due
 > to vanishing resources or a population growing faster than the needed
 > energy technologies,  then energy effectively becomes a limit on population
 > growth.  If it turns out that energy is not a problem then the future lays
 > out reasonably well.  We will still have some other issues-- mostly social
 > and economic, but I would think energy is right up at the top of the
 > factors that CAN limit growth.  Answer the question--where/how can the
 > world get about three to five times the current energy per capita at
 > affordable prices and without undo environmental damage during the next two
 > centuries?-- in a positive way and many other potential problems vanish.  I
 > know there are a lot of 'potential' answers out there, but no definite
 > ones--yet!

Nuclear energy will do it.

I see the Turks ordered their first nuclear power plant a few days
ago.
-- 
John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.


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