About 25 years ago I was told by my university physics professor that, for sure, commercial energy production from fusion was less than 25 years off.
Meanwhile cold fusion research societies also soldier on! If we are up against the wall and production has peaked or about peaked or will eventually peak in our lifetimes, isn't the immediate solution just forcing the US to use energy more along the lines of Japan? Not to capitalists. Most definitely not to fossil fuel capitalists and the moneymen who bet on them. Such a cut in oil consumption would cause an immediate production glut and end the current oil pricing bubble. That pricing bubble is supposed to finance still yet more fossil fuel exploration and production to meet still yet more consumption. While the money goes around and around and becomes more and more. It's not that resources aren't being depleted. It's not that our environment isn't being wrecked as we consume far too much and move on to other resources while changing our climate, our oceans, and the environments which support us. It's just that capitalism--whether with free markets or cartelized ones with super-lethal air forces backing them up--simply can not respond. Hence the need for fantasies like science and technology giving us fixes like fusion. Charles Jannuzi Univ. of Fukui, Japan _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
