Dollar a gallon gasoline

[Jon Louis Mann]

> >In places where these things are irrelevant,
> >like China, coal is used to the maximum.

> They are well aware of the problems from coal and are
> expected (if 
> this goes live) to be the largest customers.  On the other
> hand, they 
> might own the space manufacturing setup and we would be
> buying power from them.
> I am not optimistic that this will be done.  If this or
> some other 
> really huge supply of primary energy is not found, we are
> going to be 
> in for some nasty times.  The other way the energy crisis
> will be 
> solved is for the world population to fall to about a
> billion.
> Keith 

so we face either a collapse, or the singularity?  either one will solve the problem...
will any other brinlisters be at denvention, and are there plans to meet?
jon