I read his novels back in the 70's. He truly was one of the greats! He will be missed!

Seriously though, a open source is a loose collection of people who have come together to work on a project/software, no real formal structure.

Sorry didn't know you couldn't Google.

Here you go, http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/knittel/papers/gas_demand_083006.pdf

If there was alternatives then it could happen, why there isn't any change is because there is no real useful alternative to fossil fuels. And why with histrionics?

anyway people can carry on a conversation without getting emotional about it?!

It's been proven that increasing the cost of fossil fuels has no effect on consumption of fossil fuels, people still need to travel and need electricity to warm and power their homes and computers and business. What will happen is that it will take money away from other things, people will cut back on discretionary spending and other things to help pay for their fuel. This obviously keeps a damper on the economy and prevents growth and eventually prevents new innovations.

Give or take a century or two, sure is!

All humor aside, This system would work well on the moon and asteroids. It could be a low cost method to launch refined metals and materials to earth enabling near earth colonization!

And yet you think Mr. Obama and his troop plans on paying for anything yet???

GDF-11 works the same way in humans as it does in mice.

Well I can't help think that some countries are tempted to go to war with the U.S just so they could have one of those free nation building promo's.

But a Federal Reserve bubble, money is cheap, so companies will spend it on somethings (but not as much as compared to a strong economy).

Destroy countries? The U.S is the only country in the world that when it wins a war then rebuilds the country they attacked!

I personally want more research and development specially in the area of space research! But how to pay for it? we are already borrowing as much as taxes bring in to the Federal Government. That unsustainable.

For several large IT project at the State agency level, I can safely say that the bidding process for an RFP is to the lowest bidder, not the best bidder. Also they make it easier for certain companies to be on the bidding process ie. cronyism. So really the state ends up with what it asks for. Most large IT project fail because of these reasons.

Thank goodness for Fox News, considering watching the video Slate got it wrong, but hey it's not the first time!