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25,000 man hours of energy in one barrel of oil
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25,000 man hours of energy in one barrel of oil
by Plantagenet » Mon 05 Nov 2007, 13:16:01
A barrel of oil may have much more energy in it then a single man can produce, but just try to get a barrel of oil to write a computer program.
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Re: 25,000 man hours of energy in one barrel of oil
by emersonbiggins » Mon 05 Nov 2007, 13:26:01
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'A') barrel of oil may have much more energy in it then a single man can produce, but just try to get a barrel of oil to write a computer program.
What's your point? Are you able to run that computer using technotopian pixie dust?
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Re: 25,000 man hours of energy in one barrel of oil
by Plantagenet » Mon 05 Nov 2007, 13:55:43
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'A') barrel of oil may have much more energy in it then a single man can produce, but just try to get a barrel of oil to write a computer program.
What's your point? Are you able to run that computer using technotopian pixie dust?
You can't place a value on oil by calculating the amount of energy a man would have to generate to replace the energy in a barrel of oil anymore then you can value the man (say a computer programmer) by the number of line of computer code a barrel of oil would have to write to replace the man's computer programming skills.
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Re: 25,000 man hours of energy in one barrel of oil
by Bas » Mon 05 Nov 2007, 13:59:11
hmmm, 25,000/(40*50) = 12.5 years
I think I just might buy 4 barrels and retire then.....
I think I just might buy 4 barrels and retire then.....
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Re: 25,000 man hours of energy in one barrel of oil
by emersonbiggins » Mon 05 Nov 2007, 14:03:26
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'A') barrel of oil may have much more energy in it then a single man can produce, but just try to get a barrel of oil to write a computer program.
What's your point? Are you able to run that computer using technotopian pixie dust?
You can't place a value on oil by calculating the amount of energy a man would have to generate to replace the energy in a barrel of oil anymore then you can value the man (say a computer programmer) by the number of line of computer code a barrel of oil would have to write to replace the man's computer programming skills.
Is it Monday already?
Can we agree that physical labor (that which is contained by exerting muscles or consuming a barrel of oil) underwrites ALL other forms of "labor," including virtual ones, like those undertaken by the programmer? Of course the barrel of oil is inanimate; humans make it "useful," per se. I don't think that was the point of the comparison.
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