OT; Brave New World

magic hydrogen from the zero-point quantum vacuum, then? (Not that
that's totally unbelievable - virtual particles are as real as ... err
.... other unreal things; paging Ivan...

Anyway, what's wrong with yeast for this sort of thing? Ethanol's a
pretty "useful" hydrocarbon.

 

Um it isn't anything like zero point energy. One just needs to develop
something as useful and powerful as, say, photosynthesis.

As for the other, nothing that scales and gives a sufficient energy gain has
come along yet.

 

*whoosh*

or, to help you out, how are you going to generate a /hydro/carbon of
any form from just co2 and radiation?

 

If I told you that NWO would kill you.

 

heh - like they've told *you* what's going on.

 

<applause>

 

I've been in the fold since 1980.
I'm mainly tasked with torturing Jim Corr these days.

 

cheating.