Ferrari Mailing List: Re: OIL

[LarryT (l02turner]

I suspect choice A is entirely possible.   Picture how far we've come since 
1900 - from horse drawn to walking on the moon and beyond - all in less than 
70 years!  Each decade of the 20th century saw quantum leaps in progress. 
We started the 20th century traveling at 50 mph on a train and ended the 
20th C at 600 on a 747 traveling between continents!    What would have 
taken weeks or months (crossing oceans)  in 1900 turned into Hours in the 
1950s & 60s!  And most of the progress was on the back of petroleum.   From 
plastic computer cases and powerless drill cases to detergents and 
clothing - all based on discoveries directly related to Big Oil - the new 
evil empire according to the left.

Perhaps Cold Fusion will become a reality - or AntiMatter reactors?  Each 
capable of producing enormous amounts of energy (with equal amounts of 
risks) at supposedly low costs -- depending on where you are in the chain.

The above along with Air power, hydrogen power, coal shale, all kinds of 
alternatives - yet none are available now - and there lies the rub.

Time.  We need time to perfect, commercialize and miniturize these 
processes.   Only oil has the ability to keep us going while we develop the 
alternates -

Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Rentiers" <rentiers [at] me.com>
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] OIL


> On Aug 9, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Rick Lindsay wrote:
>
> > + The only viable solution is nuclear.
> >
> > rick
>
> You're right there, Rick. The way I see it, humanity is a happy
> accident in a vast and hostile universe. We have the ability to choose
> our destiny. We can sit around waiting for the lights to go out, or we
> can reach for the stars.
>
> Oh I know how much energy it takes to go anywhere close to lightspeed,
> and how far away the stars are; but the nearest is only four light
> years. At only 20% of lightspeed that's twenty years to the nearest
> star as measured here on earth, much less for the crew. Enormous
> amounts of energy, but think - if the process of atomic fusion
> releases as much as it does, what vast amounts of energy may be
> released when we learn how to split sub-atomic particles?
>
> Impractical. Difficult. Outrageous.
>
> In 30 years of listening SETI hasn't heard a damn thing. Everyone
> talks about where. What about when? How many other intelligent life
> forms flourished among the billions of planets, only to be overcome by
> time and a changing environment? The moon is leaving, the sun is
> burning out. Long before then some gigantic rock will blow us all to
> smithereens. We need to get the hell out of the nest.
>
> Or stay here, eat seaweed and walk to work.
>
> I pick "A".
>
> ken
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