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Re: First Trillion
In article <01bbed5d$8832e980$fd8caec7@pro> "Rick & Bea Tarara" <rbtarara@sprynet.com> writes:
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> Kieran P Carter <kcarter@iastate.edu> wrote in article
> <597n5v$4hu@news.iastate.edu>...
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> > what about all the research into hydroponics?
> > --
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> 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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