In reply to James Bowery's message of Sat, 16 Aug 2014 14:34:24 -0500: Hi,
Indeed. Humans are very risk averse. They are willing to invest large sums in things they are tried and true, even if the promised return is only low, but very unwilling to invest in something completely new, even if the promised return is very high. This attitude could well be the downfall of civilization. >As far as I can see there is nothing _but_ dumb money out there. Let me >define what I mean: > >I know of at least one technology that has, since 2009, been waiting on >nothing more than about $10M dollars to reduce civilization's ecological >footprint by at least a factor of 2 while increasing protein production to >the point that, even passing through multiple trophic layers in the >agricultural foodchain to high value meat and fish, would provide a diet so >rich the problem wouldn't be malnutrition but gout. > >When I say "waiting on" I mean it is demonstrated and the production line >to manufacture it is already specified. > >Oh, I guess I failed to point out that what I mean by "demonstrated" is >that its economics are not just profitable, they are _enormously_ >profitable. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
