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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Dimensional Traveler  wrote   
   > Doc O'Leary wrote   
   >> Greg Goss  wrote   
      
   >>> Modern North Americans just cannot   
   >>> fathom the scale of a horse-based society.   
      
   >> s/horse-based/sustainable   
      
   >> And, sadly, the problem isn't just limited to North American.   
   >> The majority of sci-fi hand waves abundant energy into the   
   >> future, but the reality is that, so far, that appears to be the   
   >> hardest hurdle we have facing us.   
      
   > And always has been, at least since the invention of agriculture.   
      
   No, we went thru a period when fossil fuels basically drove   
   the industrial revolution.   
      
   I don't believe that will stop myself, essentially because   
   while renewables aren't as cheap, they are cheap enough   
   and when they aren't enough, particularly with transport   
   fuels, we will use nukes regardless of the current attitudes   
   to them. Just put them where they won't be affected by   
   natural disasters and use thorium so that they can not be   
   used to make nuclear weapons.   
      
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