SOLVING REALLY BIG PROBLEMS

[revtec]

What is our collective goal regarding the commercialization of CF?    Is it to reduce the level of CO2 emissions to reverse global warming?    Is it to improve the quality of life by providing an inexhaustable source of cheap energy to everyone on the planet?   Perhaps the reduction in CO2 emissions will be more than offset by the waste heat output of billions of CF engines, and that global warming will accelerate by direct heating alone!  Could it be that with perfecting CF we are about to open pandora's box?   I brought this up before without getting a single comment.  Did I have silent agreement with this concern from most of the group, am I considered totally nuts, or maybe most subscribers dump every post from revtec without reading a single word.  I really don't know.   God stuff is considered off topic in this forum, but I'm covinced that it is central.  Our perception of threats to our existance is directly linked to our perception of God.  Our attitudes toward "God sized" problems are determined by our concept of God.  The thermal condition of this planet is set by the output of the sun.  Compared to a one or two percent fluctuation in solar radiation, anything humans can do down here is totally irrelevant.    Christians think God has his hand on the solar thermostat.  Athiests think no one does.    Christians trust God to dial it back if necessary in response to our increased heat load.  People, who either don't believe in God or don't trust God, think we must master these adjustments ourselves.    Christians are thought callous for not recognizing the need to tackle "God sized" problems while there are nonbelievers amoung us who think the solution to planetary thermal overload and other environmental problems is to eliminate five of the six billion people on the Earth's surface.   For anyone who wants to play the God game, the stakes are fantastically high.   What will be the most likely cause of calamity: trusting God or playing God?   Jeff