On Thursday, April 21, 2005, at 01:23 PM, Bob Shell wrote: > On Thursday, April 21, 2005, at 01:00 PM, Ardeshir Mehta wrote: > >> But then again IS fossil fuel really from fossils? Prof. Gold of >> Cornell University, with whom I briefly corresponded a while back, >> says no - and I tend to believe him. > > I tend to agree. But even if it comes from deep-dwelling organisms, > it takes a long time to replenish what we pump out. > > Bob Yes. I feel that bio-renewable energy is the way to go. Unless, of course, we can make Patrick et al.'s patent, or one of Naudin's inventions, on a mass scale, and extract energy from the vacuum! (See US patent No. 6,362,718 B1 dated March 26, 2002, available as a .pdf file from <http://www.aw-verlag.ch/Others/Bearden%20- %20MotionlessElectromagneticGenerator.pdf> for the former, and <http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/2magpup.htm> and <http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/mppprop.htm> for the latter.)