I can see that I’m not convincing you, but I find your counterpoints very unconvincing. Where is any plant in the world today (or even in the near future) turning out significant amounts of energy from an “alternate” source? It’s just not happening in significant amounts.
Starvation rates in the third world rose significantly following food price rises in 2007-2008. It’s not something that won’t happen; it’s already happening.
Of course not. People do not typically engage in business practices that would be economically ruinous to attempt. That being said—a single F-T plant operated by the South African company Sasol currently has a production capacity of 150,000 barrels per day. If that’s not a “significant amount” for an otherwise non-economically-competitive energy production process… I just don’t know what is.
Starvation rates in the third world rose significantly following food price rises in 2007-2008. It’s not something that won’t happen; it’s already happening.
Ironically those actually came about from the corn-ethanol push. Dropping that ended the food riots in most of the world. Furthermore, global hunger is really more of a political problem than a supply one. Which is part of at least one Kenyan economist has become internationally famous for saying of foreign aid to Africa, “for God’s sake, just stop.”
I can see that I’m not convincing you, but I find your counterpoints very unconvincing.
I can only suggest that one or the other of us is currently suffering from a problem of allowing his convictions to bias him against the reception of new facts that contradict our current position.
I can see that I’m not convincing you, but I find your counterpoints very unconvincing. Where is any plant in the world today (or even in the near future) turning out significant amounts of energy from an “alternate” source? It’s just not happening in significant amounts.
Starvation rates in the third world rose significantly following food price rises in 2007-2008. It’s not something that won’t happen; it’s already happening.
Of course not. People do not typically engage in business practices that would be economically ruinous to attempt. That being said—a single F-T plant operated by the South African company Sasol currently has a production capacity of 150,000 barrels per day. If that’s not a “significant amount” for an otherwise non-economically-competitive energy production process… I just don’t know what is.
Ironically those actually came about from the corn-ethanol push. Dropping that ended the food riots in most of the world. Furthermore, global hunger is really more of a political problem than a supply one. Which is part of at least one Kenyan economist has become internationally famous for saying of foreign aid to Africa, “for God’s sake, just stop.”
I can only suggest that one or the other of us is currently suffering from a problem of allowing his convictions to bias him against the reception of new facts that contradict our current position.