Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: Re: World Bank states biofuels have increased food cost 75%.
timmac wrote:
Canuk wrote :
It clearly goes through the alternatives and states why they cannot solve our problems.
I will read beyond oil soon,, but we must and need alternatives to work,, if not than what,, I can't stand riding a pedal bike every where, and horse back, not for me,, I do think the air car thing looks good,, uses less electric than a elec car and recharges fast, no batteries except for 1, cleans the air after passing thru air motor, cheaper to make and cheap to repair,, check the internet on air powered cars they are maybe the real answer with a world without oil....
Air is a storage medium for energy and I have read some interesting articles on the cars (I am a mechanical engineer and gadgets are right down my alley) and likely if designed by non-automotive engineers could get even lower energy requirements. You are also right that horses will not work and bicycles are great in Southern California or Arizona but in the North in the winter - I for one am too old for that.
Deffeyes is a little pessimistic in the book and his math tends towards the simplistic as it was written for a large audience, but pessimism helps us prevent looking for the magic bullet.
Transport is a liquid fuels issue but we have an overall energy problem as well. Our current infrastructure and societal layout requires large amounts of energy per capita and even reducing the tranpost section will be a stopgap measuure which would also consume significant amounts of energy - the average car requires 57 barrels of oil (or equivalent energy) in its production alone and replacing the american fleet of 250+ million vehicles would require a staggering amount of energy not including the increased electrity required for charging, etc...
My personal pessimism aside, I am not saying air power cannot be one of the many solutions that will make up a small increment of the savings required but without significant changes to our overall consumption we will just postpone the inevitable.
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