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Old 9th February 2006 | 03:04
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Originally Posted by Pax Vobiscum
Loose rivets, what it would take is an infrastructure. Right now, no-one is building that infrastructure because it wouldn't be be profitable. Once the price of oil rises sufficiently, you'll be amazed how quickly Shell, Exxon &c will start to build it, when they see they can make a few billion a year out of it.

Sorry, with the best effort in the history of mankind, it simply will not work.

Our existing fuel comes from a stockpile that took millions of years to build. It is MILES thick in lots of places, yet still our needs are seeing it diminish at an alarming rate.
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