This brings us right back to square one. why feed a cow for a year, the
amount of plankton required to keep 10 people alive, just so you can get 1
man-year worth of t bones? such a long term survivial of the species effort
would have to be concerned with the overall energy efficency of the food
source.. at least initially till more energy sources could be brought
online.
OK, in this post asteroid impact world, at least I got you to agree that a little thinking out of the box has a decent shot at this.� Right now I'd like to see how feasible the plankton model I like for survival is, but I still have half a day of work ahead ... so I will, but later.�
I have no reason to doubt your estimates of the energy requirements for a reasonable sized population, and we certainly wouldn't have rice production up over night, if rice were the post impact food of choice so I'll happily agree you've made a stong case there.
It comes down to the fact that there is vast storages of plants, animals, sugars, fertilizers and other organic material and nutrients in the world.� That doesn't include all the trees and creatures, and fungi that grow in the dark on detritus (including human poop).� So we'd all get a drastic change in lifestyle.� Everyone would have their brewer's yeast barrel and filter in the house, as well as blue green algae, and light bulbs.
Energy source is no problem at all for focused food production ... it is the distribution that would need to be immediately guaranteed.� Some further ideas, just a sampling of the thousands that would come out of a creative world trying to survive:
Fungi
Brewer's Yeast
Photosynthetic algae including diatoms in another home garbage can brewsky.
Genetically engineered diatom algae not requiring light currently off the shelf available.
Capture of the vast cellulose from trees before decomposition and treatment to produce carbohydrates and sugars digestible - not to hard to do, even if by simply using as food for yeast or bacteria that are edible and eat the wood.
canabilism on deaths by natural causes - hmmm if half of the world dies the bodies could be collected and processed.� And what of all the wildlife.� Not a pretty picture at all, but perfectly logical like the Donners found out.
Synthetic foods with high energy cost
Those who didn't adapt would probably not make it.� So if worms are the diet of the day, you like worms:)
Do I think the nuclear capabilities of the US (for example) alone could fuel this for half of the world that makes it - yes.� Would people's instinct for survival break down the civilized world?� Hardly with nuclear and electric being controlled by the government and a death penalty for offenders and a world united to pull through.� too optimistic? ... not really, I don't think, it's not the script of an action packed movie to sell tickets .... so we don't need to force a Mad Max out on it (great movie with Mel), just "Little House on the Prarie"- it worked for them.
Saludos.
Doug
