[LINK] The man who’s tutoring Bill Gates ...

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 11:00 +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
> > [the U.S. energy industry] constitutes the world's most massive, most  
> > indispensable, most expensive and most inertial infrastructure. Its  
> > principal features change on a time scale measured in decades, not  
> > years. That's why "we're going to be a fossil-fuel society for  
> > decades to come."

Yeah? Hard to be a fossil-fuel society when there is no fossil fuel to
be had. If his point is that we have enough to last us through all those
decades, then fair enough. Although saying "this is the way it is" and
using that as an argument for "this is the way it must be" is a good way
to exacerbate the effects of any resource difficulty, by waiting until
*after* the last minute to do anything about it. Witness the way people
are still talking about IPv6 as if it's optional.

Sheesh.

Regards, K.

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