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Re:Google's Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal by Goladus on Saturday December 01, 2007 @06:05PM (#85307)
I agree on energy being most important, but others that matter are air, water, and food(unless you count food as energy). Also human organs and blood for medicine.

Air probably shouldn't be underestimated. Consider that you can live for weeks without food and days without water, but without air you'll be dead in minutes.

Re:Google's Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal by rms on Saturday December 01, 2007 @06:14PM (#85308)
Water -- a desalinization plant allows you to convert energy into water.

Air -- we can bottle as much pure air as we want with energy.

Food -- yes, it takes energy to make food, whether it is grown in the grown or fed food that was grown or completely artificial.

Human organs and blood -- this is a resource separate from energy, but only because of medical ethics. If it wasn't unethical to grow/create people for transplantation/transfusion purposes, we could convert energy to medical resources. This will hopefully become practical overtime, when science allows us to clone organs without making a whole human.

Re:Google's Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal by Goladus on Saturday December 01, 2007 @11:10PM (#85347)
I didn't dispute any of that.