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I. Corn
It seems as if, nowadays, you can't throw a stick without hitting someone who believes that nonrenewable resource use is going to end the world, possibly in the next few years. I did a paper on this recently, looking at ethanol - which seems to be the Bush administration's answer to the problem, in as much as they have an answer - and using various stats available online and math familiar to fifth graders everywhere found that there's just no possible way there is enough corn on earth for this to make sense.
Which does make me wonder: am I the only one who feels like there are so many fucking elephants in the room as far as the ethanol debate is concerned? Is replacing one ridiculously subsidized resource with another really the solution to this problem? Does anyone else care besides deadbeat economists?
II. Perverts
I know people who are addicted to Facebook, Match.com and MySpace, but I can't get enough of Craiglist.
Every time I go on there I get sucked into hours-long searches that take me, if not closer to a well-paying job, closer to the bizarre heart of humankind. Or so it seems.
I'll usually start out in Writing, go into Talent, hunt through Furniture, and wind up in Personals. Today, I was browsing through Miscellaneous Romance (more miscellaneous than romance) and I realized something: contrary to Hallmark cards the world over, we are not all looking for the same thing. Not even close.
2 comments:
Ethanol is especially fun because it actually takes more energy to produce useable ethanol than it provides as a fuel source.
Unless consumption suddenly drops off, I don't see how we can avoid going at least partially nuclear. As long as it's intensely regulated and safety concerns are scrupulously addressed, I fail to see the problem with it.
Well - there's the question of where to put all the nuclear waste.
Also, the energy input and output ratios I've seen for ethanol put it around .93 - so it is efficient, just barely. But I see your point.
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