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Old 10-24-2009, 11:18 AM   #6 (permalink)
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yea its not great yet. i agree.


but dude, we're talking about billions of years in the future here.


oil and coal will last for a few centuries tops,

maybe some kind of nuclear power will last indefinately, but the only things that are gonna last indefinately besies some amazing nuclear breakthru are solar and other renewables.


i read somewhere that the amount of sunlight that hits the earth every minute contains enough energy to power everything that has ever been powered by electricity in the history of mankind but that we just cant collect it well enough. anybody know if thats true?

anyway, computers in the 1950s fit in a warehouse, today they fit in a swallowable pill.

so im sure solar power tech will improve drastically in the short term future let alone the long term future. and its like one of our only choices if we want power for more than a few hundred years.
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