[DriveElectric]

A very interesting article on solar flight. There is nothing really relevant to Peak Oil here. But I found it interesting in describing the way engineers and techincal people think. I suspect this mindset is why many techies and engineers tend to hold the POV that there are solutions to PO.

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/thisjust ... -1,00.html

Efficiency-obsessed engineers like Cocconi and MacCready are believers in the power of amazing demonstrations to change the way people think about energy use and the possibilities of ultralightweight technology. As new materials and components are invented and existing ones continue to improve, their machines will begin to look less like exercises in exotica and more like something that can work. Like those cool drawings in Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook.

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I suspect this mindset is why many techies and engineers tend to hold the POV that there are solutions to PO.

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