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 %ULTIMATELY SUSTAINABLE PER CAPITA ENERGY USE EVER 080221
%MAINTAINED GLOBALLY HUMAN CIVILIZATIONS LIMITS GOD 080221
%SPACE SHIP EARTH ORBITING SUN WITHIN MILKY WAY SIN 080221
%FINITE EXPANDING COSMOS FIVE BILLION YEARS OLD NOW 080221

The below is intended to provoke thinking and dialogue!

Ultimately humanity will have to ask and answer every  one
of the following Troubling-Questions:

 1.  How  much  LIQUID-FUELS remain hidden  IN  the  solid
crust of the earth ---  which can be extracted with a Net-
Energy-Gain?  At what costs?

 2.  How much SOLID-FUELS remain hidden IN the solid crust
of the earth --- which can be extracted with a Net-Energy-
Gain?   At what costs?

 3.  How much ALIVE-BIO-MASS remains IN open spaces on the
solid crust of the earth ---  which can be harvested as  a
source of Hydrocarbon-Dry-Fuels?  At what costs?

 4.  How much ALIVE-BIO-MASS remains hidden IN the Oceans,
Seas and Lakes ---  which can be harvested as  a source of
Hydrocarbon-Dry-Fuels?   At what costs?

 5.  How much DEAD-and-DECAYING BIO-MASS remains hidden ON
the Solid-Crust of the Earth --- which can be harvested as
a source of Hydrocarbon-Dry-Fuels?   At what costs?

 6.  How  much new BIO-MASS can be grown each year on  the
solid surface of the Earth?   At what costs?

 7.  How  much new BIO-MASS can be grown each year IN  the
liquid volumes of the Eaarth's:  Oceans,  Seas,  Lakes and
Rivers  ---  and so how much Solar-Energy can be harvested
each year through that way of Capturing-Solar-Energy.   At
what costs?

 8.  How  much SOLAR-ENERGY Can-be-Harvested each year  by
the use of Solar-Panels,  Mirrors, Concentrators,  and all
other physically engineered physical devices placed on the
surface of the earth.   At what costs?

 9.  How much URANIUM-235, URANIUM-238, and Thorium can be
extracted with Net-Energy-Gain from the Solid-Crust of the
Earth.  At what costs?

10.  Can there ever be a net energy gain For-Peaceful-Uses
of Thermo-Nuclear-Fusions of Light-Nuclei?  At what costs?

11.  How  are the answers to the above questions  affected
by  actual  and  reasonably  expected:    (a)  Population-
Growths,   (b)  Global-Warming,  (c)  Rising-Ocean-Waters,
(d)  Relocation-Costs, (d)  Per-Capita-Energy-Consumption-
per-year.?

12.  In the light of all of the above --- what is the Net-
Energy-Consumption-Rate Per-Person-Alive ---  which can be
SUSTAINED during the coming Ten-Thousand-Years?

     Be-Together in the Many-Gracious Ways of Shalom.

                         (c) 2008 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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