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   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   In article ,   
   droleary@8usenet2013.subsume.com says...   
   >   
   > In article ,   
   >  wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) wrote:   
   >   
   > > In article ,   
   > > Doc O'Leary  said:   
   > >   
   > > > 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.   
   > >   
   > > With "getting the energy to where we want it" perhaps a close second.   
   >   
   > Yeah, but that's so easy to solve when you have oodles of energy in the   
   > first place!  :-)  Or perhaps the better solution is to change our   
   > thinking that we need the energy to always come to us.  Cities of the   
   > past tended to pop up on the banks of rivers for a good reason.   
      
   Yeah, transportation.   
      
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