[TML] Plants, animals and characters

[Bruce Johnson]

On Apr 3, 2008, at 10:01 PM, shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:

> On 3 Apr 2008 at 19:42, Jerry W Barrington wrote:
>
>> On 4/3/08 5:17 PM, "Knapp" <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Eating, I need some help here but the roots of the energy system  
>>> are:
>>> the sun, geothermal and ???? After that it is all about eating  
>>> others
>>> and how fast, big and or resistant to eating the others are and you
>>> are.
>>
>> Solar is by for the primary.  Geothermal is only available in very  
>> limited
>> areas, and those areas can die out over time.  I really don't know  
>> over any
>> other *known* sources.
>
> I just recalled that a *lot* of bacteria get energy from processing
> things like sulfide ores into sulfates.
>

I'm thinking he's asking about primary sources of energy, of which  
there are only two: fusion, powering the sun, and fissile decay, which  
powers geothermal sources.



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Bruce Johnson
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