arnyk wrote: > Yes, it is too bad that none of that newly found oil and gas that forms > reserves that extend into the next century and has already profoundly > depressed energy market prices, can possibly used to manufacture solar > panels, windmills or heaven forbid nuclear power plants ;-)
As long as there is (the illusion of) an abundant supply of fossil fuels then mankind will be easily convinced that there is no need to build all those costly wind and solar farms. However once the supply of fossil fuels starts to dwindle rationing will begin and using fossil fuels to build wind and solar farms will be at the very bottom of the rationing list. The cost of building SAFE nuclear power plants makes nuclear power a complete non-starter until the price of fossil fuels becomes extremely high, which will also mean that high cost of building SAFE nuclear power plants will also go up. A vicious circle. If I sound overly pessimistic it's because the history mankind has shown mankind to be really, really good at two things: 1) killing each other 2) turning abundance into scarcity I think the chances of mankind reversing either or both of these traits at anytime in the future is slim to none. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104207 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
