Good analysis- congrats! Hopefully Egypt will not be Iranized. It is a crime against Nature to use plants to manufacture fuels, and is crime against human nature to burn ethyl alcohol.
Randy Mills energy source is on the way- building a new infrastructure for the new generators will provide hundreds of millions of jobs Peter On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]>wrote: > From the WSJ, a few minutes ago: > > "Egyptian Vice President Suleiman says President Mubarak has stepped > down and has delegated Egypt's affairs to the army." > > Mubarak may very well be a scumbag who richly deserved to get kicked out > of office, but the proximate cause of the demise of his power is, as far > as I can tell, the skyrocketing price of food. > > And that, in turn, is due, at least in part, to the high price of oil, > which has made biofuels economical. Because that, in turn, has resulted > in farmers pulling land out of food production and switching over to > "fake oil production" -- most notably, ethanol from corn. > > All of North Africa is currently going up in flames, due at least in > part to the ethanol we burn in our gasoline. > > A cheap source of energy would make a huge difference to world's poor, > even if they never used it themselves, even if all it did was free up > arable land from biofuel production. > > The other thing pushing up food prices is the rotten and unpredictable > weather which the world's been suffering through for the last few years, > which has resulted in major grain producing nations cutting back on > their exports -- and that seems to be due mostly to climate change > caused by burning of fossil fuels. So, again, an alternate source of > energy would (eventually) benefit the world's poor, even if they never > used it themselves. > > Won't it be great if Rossi's gadget turns out to be for real? Time will > tell.... > >
