To Glenn on the energy problems:
I was in the Denver Museum of Science yesterday -- saw a brief TV interview
of a geologist, Tom Ahlbrandt, who was part of a US government project to
measure energy resources recently (maybe in 2000 although this was not
clear). The interview itself was recent.
Tom agreed that the US supplies were inadaquate, but he insisted that the
"crunch" when we might see energy supplies really begin to run short of
demand was most probably in the year 2050. Even the worst case he could
envision was 2020.
The net of the display to the casual museum visitor was "don't worry, be
happy, buy another SUV."
Two numbers he mentioned were 6.5 Trillion in reserves and 0.28 Trillion per
year in current usage. I watched the interview (3 minutes) several times --
those numbers give a 232 year supply at current rates. It was frustrating
because it was clearly cut from a longer one with better detail.
Burgy
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