"overcapitalised" seems to me an important concept to add to my list of skeptical memes.  I think it showed up in ericy's discussion of peak oil...  it's a commonality between corporate ag, factory trawlers, and megaproject power gen schemes... capital-intensive in more than once sense;  such schemes are dependent on huge inputs of monetary and energy capital to get started, but they are also net consumers of global capital (energy, biota, the infrastructure of life)... [wanders off looking thoughtful]

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...