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Krugman and the end of the Industrial State | 117 comments (117 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: This is the question. (none / 1)

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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Re: This is the question. (none / 0)

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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Re: This is the question. (4.00 / 3)

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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Re: This is the question. (none / 1)

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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Re: This is the question. (none / 0)

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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