On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 09:10:25AM +1000, Wendy wrote:
> By bats, do you/they mean fruit bats/flying foxes or Microbats?
> Eitherway, EASILY solved, stop flying after dark!
> Peak oil will get us there (i.e. grounded), kicking and screaming and taking
> lots of nature down with us, fairly soon anyway!
History has its lessons. Germany faced "peak oil" in 1939 when it lost
access to overseas oil imports. Germany fueled a good part of its WWII
aviation from their coal fields. The plants that converted coal to fuel
were a key target in allied bombing raids and their eventual destruction
crippled the German military. Facing the loss of access to overseas oil,
apartheid South Africa built similar plants. Post apartheid-South Africa
has secure access to overseas oil but the rise in price has made the
coal-fuel conversion more attractive and SASOL is selling aviation fuel
synthesized from coal. So central Qld coal fields can keep twitchers
on the wing to Christmas Island and Cairns fruit bats colliding with
incoming tourists for a little while to come.
Andrew
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