Re: The Year 2038 Problem
From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it)
Date: 05/28/04
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Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:03:12 +0000 (UTC)
On 2004-05-28, Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> wrote:
> "Corey Murtagh" <emonk@slingshot.no.uce> wrote in message
> news:1085722200.99553@radsrv1.tranzpeer.net...
>> AngleWyrm wrote:
>> > My solution is that I plan to be dead around 2040 or so.
Hm I might not make that. Fun prospect!
>> 15 years after the oil runs out and we're all paying US$20/gallon for
>> vehicle grade alcohol :>
>
> I assume that $20 is after inflation, which means it'll be on par (in
> constant dollars) with what we pay for petrol or ethanol today. Hardly a
> problem, though I'd expect us all to be running on hydrogen by then; ethanol
> is a transition fuel.
The fun thing of course is that alcohols are about the simplest things
to make, and dead cheap too. The only thing that make them so darn
expensive is the various governements wanting a piece of the action, in
the interest of letting people have less fun for their dollar.
Fact is, oil is not as cheap as it seems, as it has rather high cleanup
costs associated with it. Same with nuclear fuels, but oil doesn't have
quite such spectacular faillure modes. Altough I have to admit that
fuel/air bombs are kinda neat. And oily birds make for nice television
and cause traffic jams with people driving to a different, clean beach.
Same with our silicon based computing stuffs. They and the facilities
needed to produce them are not very environment friendly, and the
pittance some of us now have to pay as advance clean-up costs will not
be enough to fix the problems the obsoleted debris will create later on.
Anyway. Whatever we do, we'll pay for it sooner or later. If sufficiently
late we'll just be cursed by our ancestors. Which would you prefer?
-- j p d (at) d s b (dot) t u d e l f t (dot) n l .
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