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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA
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It will not be sustainable in any form that will make a long term impact on the energy problem unless there are many fewer people (like only 100 million worldwide) who live at first world levels. Modern mechanized agriculture with it's forced yields is as much a mining operation as crude oil production. In addition to diesel fuel for tillage and harvesting consider the sources of cheap nitrogen and phospates for fertilizer - natural gas and finite supplies of surface mined phosphate ore. Then there's soil erosion....
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