On Dec 27, 2007 12:33 PM, Steve Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does it not seem possible (even likely if we look closely) that the ills of > this planet today are very likely positively correlated with energy > consumption?
Maybe, but correlation does not always mean causation. I think the big problems have more to do with energy "collection" or "conversion" rather than consumption. That is, the environmental and human costs of mining coal and drilling oil; the by products of burning coal and oil, really, the entire life-cycle of fossil fuels. Not to mention mining, processing, consuming and disposing of fuels for nuclear fission. ZPE promises to take away all that nastiness, all while failing to increase the entropy of the universe. Wouldn't that be neat? ~~James ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
