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<p class="MsoNormal">But we don’t all need yachts because the
green ammonia shipping lets the goods come to us?<br>
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<p>I don't think of mega-yachts as being maintained for fetching
groceries (or Cybertrucks or Christmas dolls or other plastic
junk)? </p>
<p><rant about material transport></p>
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<p>I live 100 yards away from the famous Otowi Bridge "whistle
stop" on the Chile Line that Edith Warner manned for the boys
school, Bandalier, San I, El Rancho... but the whole rail was
decommissioned and relocated to Burma (where they also used
narrow gauge). <br>
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<p>I don't think there was a huge volume of freight going through
that stop, especially near the end when truck travel was likely
displacing... the auto bridge at the location was built in 1924
(100 years ago)! Current pueblo population is similar to to
1600s when there were no long-distance material transport.
Today there is a constant stream of Amazon, UPS, FedEX trucks in
and out, but nothing compared to what streams by on it's way to
Los Alamos! Of course it is only fair that trucks head the
other way to WIPP loaded with canisters contaminated glovebox
gloves.</p>
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<p></freightRant><br>
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<p><discursive fantasy about self-reliance><br>
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<p>Folks used to get along "just fine" without global supply
chains of the style currently in use, and in fact apparently
*critical* to most of us now. I can't guess what I'd find
absent in my life within weeks of a collapsed global supply
chain, but it would probably be more than iPhones, Xmas Dolls,
and off season Strawberries. For all my attempts at
self-reliance, I suspect I'd last only a week or two longer than
the average... Assuming my gun-bristling neighbors don't shoot
me on Day 1 to take my chickens and solar panels... they won't
likely be ready to turn me into long-pig-jerky for a few more
months... or maybe they'd give me enough respite to build out
a full Crusoe suite of DIY defenses by which time I'd be ready
to make jerky of them and collect their guns and ammo for the
waves of walking dead from TX and CA to come later? Palisades
and deadfalls and spike-pits and such? Probably not.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And there could be a lot less of us.</p>
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<p>Especially if there are releases of ammonia-fuel similar to the
2000gl diesel spill in Baltimore Harbor today. </p>
<p><deathByAmmonia></p>
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<p>6000gl ammonia (based on 1/3 volumetric relative energy
density) would be quite the tragedy? If *not* anhydrous (i.e.
30% solution in water) it would be (much) more of an
environmental than human disaster though... so a few safety
precautions would nicely shift the risk from humans to other
parts of the biosphere... fewer people would die in the first
hour or day of acute symptoms but maybe just as many down the
line of much more chronic/latent conditions? </p>
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<p></ammoniaDeath> <br>
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<p>But Senator Ernst reminds us "we will all die' and therefore we
should "get right with God" or somesuch. Brilliant! (Occupy
Heaven!)<br>
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<p><StephenKing story cautionary tale></p>
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<p>I recently watched Stephen King's <i>the Stand</i> mini-series
and saw that his estimate was 92.4% death rate or a reduction
from 8B to < 1B which was last seen (I think) in
pre-pre-industrial (ca 1800) times. It appears an abrupt
reduction in population leaves a plenitude of material goods to
indulge in (or fight over)... don't need global supply chains
for the hard-goods for years or decades? See discursion above!</p>
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<p></SK story review></p>
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