I was happy to read the article your message linked to, espcially the part that said that on a sunny day, a few of the solar thermal plants can create as much energy as a few nuclear power plants. I think one of Maharishi's gretest observations was that "through the window of science we see the dawn of the age of enlightenment." I'm not sure TM has anything to do with the technological progress we, the family of man, are making, but science, I think, is on the brink of breakthroughs that will transform human life. Two especially that come to mind, and your post about one of them inspired me to post, are energy and desalination. Science is in a positive feedback loop--the more progress it makes, the more progress it is able to make because part of its progress is improving the tools for making progress. I can't help but think that science is on the brink of discovering how to supply humanity with all the energy it can use in a way that doesn't harm the environment. That discovery will transform human life. Maybe one immediate benefit will be to make desalination of sea water economically feasible, if the energy component of the current cost of the process makes it prohibitively expensive. And that would transform human life too.
