It's certainly a highly esoteric consideration, very esoteric I think. I will not live to see them realized, but happily I can hand them off to someone who will be - still a long shot - in a position to see them realized. I have spent ten years occasionally drifting into reflections on the physics of bubbles.
I will not live to produce my 48368th post on DU, a few more than 17,711 posts from now, the next Fibonacci number, but unsurprisingly in the time that I am approaching my 28657th post on DU, the vote went for so called "renewable energy" and transportation.
Unrealistic fantasies die hard.
In preparing a post on the subject, I went back to look at an old post here, this one A Detailed Thermodynamic Accounting of a Route to Obtaining World Motor Fuels from Solar and Wind.
It appears that the graphic links in that post are broken, so I'd like to fix them. It also appears, when I went back to look at the graphics objects, which I have not yet restored, that the two paper series on which the post was based needed correction. Those two papers were written by Germans, which is unsurprising, since they are helping to kill the planet while they engage in these fantasies.
As for Pascal, I'm not sure I'd still remember how to program in it; although I used it a lot when I was kid: Doing so led me to several promotions in my jobs, so I'm fond of the memory of that program. The kids today use Matlab and Python and make jokes about Mathematica.
A fun memory for me was that in the beginning I actually believed that there was a real person named Frank Borland. It was my introduction to scientific marketing, with which I am now very familiar, since I sometimes work on making recommendations on what commercial software and scientific instruments to buy. I am astounded how silly some marketing, even in high end scientific instruments, is.
Of course, the "green car" and "renewable energy will save us" rhetoric is entirely marketing. The results of reality, as opposed to marketing - nearly half a century of it - are in:
Week beginning on January 30, 2022: 419.19 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 416.89 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 393.28 ppm
Last updated: February 6, 2022
Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (Accessed 02/06/22)
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