On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 22:50, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:41:19AM -0600, DvB wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:36:45 +0000, > > > Pigeon wrote: > > > > > > [...] [snip] > I can think of a few off the top of my head: > - run mobile power plants (vehicles, locomotives) off RME or alcohol > - design the products of industry to last ten times as long as they do > at the moment, and reduce industrial output by 90%
Unfortunately, the world economy would crash. > - impose a 1% cashflow tax on the oil industry and put the money into > fusion research The petroleum industry is already highly taxed in the West. > - put sails on ships Yankee Clippers were covered with sails, but were only a small fraction of the gross tonnage of modern cargo ships. It would be impractical. > They all suffer from the problem that people who currently make vast > amounts of money out of fossil fuels won't be able to any more. I have > an unpleasant suspicion that we'll be dependent on fossil fuels until > they actually run out and force us to do something else. Science can > find lots of solutions, politics/greed are the problems when it comes > to putting them into practice. The "problem" is that gasoline & diesel are very convenient & high- density fuels. I'm pretty confident that a decent minorty of US cars will be using fuel cells in 15 years. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ ron.l.johnson | | | | "For me and windows it became a matter of easy to start | | with, and becoming increasingly difficult to be produc- | | tive as time went on, and if something went wrong very | | difficult to fix, compared to linux's large over head | | setting up and learning the system with ease of use and | | the increase in productivity becoming larger the longer I | | use the system." | | Rohan Nicholls , The Netherlands | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
