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Re:Oil leak crisis...scarily familiar? by ams6110 on Monday June 14, 2010 @10:57PM (#1431664)
Aside from nuclear energy, no known "sustainable" energy technologies have any hope of replacing a significant amount of the need for oil in the next several decades at least.

The ultimate solution may indeed be "getting past oil" but that's a long, long way off. Absent some game-changing discoveries, it may not happen in our lifetimes.

Re:Oil leak crisis...scarily familiar? by jbooth on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @08:44AM (#1432541)
Aside from giant slingshots, there was no known way of getting to the Moon and back in 1960.