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meron@cars3.uchicago.edu wrote:
>In article <eaSGTVA73jmxEweD@upthorpe.demon.co.uk>, Oz <Oz@upthorpe.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>In article <4nd5mh$5og@pauling.wadsworth.org>, William Tivol
>><tivol@news.wadsworth.org> writes
>>>: kitana2@ix.netcom.com(Lana) wrote:
>>>: >
>>>: >    What kind of alternative energy source (other than fossil fuels) is
>>>: >available in Egypt?
>>
>>s'obvious.
>>
>>Use (wait for it) pyramid power. It produces lots of Horus power.
>>
>>I take it we have all discounted hydro power, is the Nile all used up?
>>
>Not only is it quite used up, but the usage probably generated more 
>damage then good.  A significant part of the power output of the Aswan 
>Dam is dedicated to the production of fertilizers which were not
>needed at all before the dam was build (the annual flooding of the 
>Nile Delta maintained it fertile indefinitely).

Don't forget the special bonus which came with Aswan - a massive 
and perpetual shistosomiasis epidemic as the stagnant waters exploded 
disease transmission throughout the Nile Delta.  Egypt has always had the 
worm.  Now, it is celebrating big time.

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