Smells Like Teen Spirit

On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 09:55 PM, Serkan ANILIR wrote:

> Would the big
> petroleum companies allow scientists and engineers to develop new
> systems for regenerative energy sources in the coming ten years?

Many of the big oil companies are investing in wind, and sometimes
solar. Wind power is, today, the fastest growing energy source on the
planet. Apparently, in the last few years wind power costs have become
lower than some fossil fuels.

The dinosaurs were destroyed by an asteroid because they weren't
space-faring. It's almost as if Gaia then thought "Well, dinosaurs
worked pretty well, but space-faring is necessary. Maybe I'll should
try mammals this time." Humanity is now developing systems to detect
and deflect asteroids, and could build orbital space colonies to spread
beyond Earth to insure life would survive a planetary catastrophe.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

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