Re: [Vo]:tipping point speculation

2009-03-28 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, mix...@bigpond.com mix...@bigpond.com mounted the barricade and roared out: There's a lot of hectarage out there that has to go back under the plough - -- or back to Nature. This I agree with. Cities should never be built

Re: [Vo]:tipping point speculation

2009-03-28 Thread mixent
In reply to grok's message of Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:24:21 -0700: Hi, [snip] There's a lot of hectarage out there that has to go back under the plough - -- or back to Nature. This I agree with. Cities should never be built on potential farm land. They should be built in deserts, or on

[Vo]:tipping point speculation

2009-03-27 Thread OrionWorks
One gets the distinct impression that battery technology is following a similar pattern of incremental improvement similar to what happened within the microprocessor industry, which eventually spawned the personal computer era. Any predictions as to how (and when) the tipping point might

Re: [Vo]:tipping point speculation

2009-03-27 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, OrionWorks svj.orionwo...@gmail.com mounted the barricade and roared out: Of particular interest to me would be when affordable all-electrics manufactured for the masses would turn out to be cheaper to buy and maintain, even

Re: [Vo]:tipping point speculation

2009-03-27 Thread mixent
In reply to grok's message of Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:39:29 -0700: Hi, [snip] There's a lot of hectarage out there that has to go back under the plough - -- or back to Nature. This I agree with. Cities should never be built on potential farm land. They should be built in deserts, or on marginal