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no amount of blood, sweat and tears will permit you to deploy more copper into manufactured goods than is available on the planet

The asteroid belt: the new frontier!

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Aug 16th, 2009 at 03:38:33 PM EST
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File under "not theoretically impossible," next to "carbon capture and storage" and "a dam across Gibraltar."

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sun Aug 16th, 2009 at 03:44:14 PM EST
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It will be cheaper to get ores from asteroids at a certain point than to fully use the resource endownment on earth - or: economic recoverability is the relevant metric here on earth as well. There is a multitude of resources in the earth's crust of what we can hope to extract.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sun Aug 16th, 2009 at 06:40:12 PM EST
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GAAAH i'm listening to john beddington, the uk govt science advisor, calmly telling steven on hardtalk how we're going to rollout 35 new nuke plants and 33 carbon captured new coal plants across the planet every freaking year till 2050!

gibbering twit, i can't believe the soap he's selling

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Aug 16th, 2009 at 07:14:10 PM EST
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You couldn't make it up, could you?

...no, wait....

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sun Aug 16th, 2009 at 08:10:55 PM EST
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i'm s'prised steven sackur didn't bust a rib laughing.

beddington is a prize A stooge.

after this hair-raising insanity, he segued smoothly into endorsing GM.

bought and sold...

renewables got barely a nod, unless they're nukies.

no i couldn't make that up, lol! reality outstripped fiction since 9-11 onwards.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon Aug 17th, 2009 at 07:06:06 PM EST
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And of course "nodule" mining at deep ocean plate boundaries.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sun Aug 16th, 2009 at 05:16:20 PM EST
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