Originally posted by Bardock42
Not yet. But if the US gets their shit together one of these days it might soon.
I know, I was being sarcastic. My uncle wrote that on the back of his car once and he got yelled at and flicked off a bunch. Funny as hell. He lives in San Fran.
What he wrote: My car runs on 100% Iraqi oil
I've thought about this topic quite a bit. It gets fairly boring in my cubicle waiting for a computer to break or a server to go down. (Our most of our applications are run on various flavors of a Unix NOS...I get paid to be available sometimes.)
There is no reason the majority of the fuel for our cars shouldn't be coming from other, less expensive, sources at this time.
I remember reading in Car and Driver back in the late 90s that a gallon of hydrogen fuel would cost a little more than $2. At that time, a gallon of gas cost a little more than a dollar a gallon. Because the cars running on hydrogen were more than twice as fuel efficient, it pretty much evened out or was a savings. What ever happened to that? Where are our hydrogen cars? I would be more than happy to pay $2.40 a gallon of hydrogen fuel in a car that gets 50-70 mpg! 😠
What about improving the efficiency of solar technology? Haven't they been trying since the 1970s to hit the magic "80% efficiency"?
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1329/
here is a better article:
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message498483/pg2
Looks like we have the "80%" but for some reason, they can't capture the electrons produced by this. Riiiiiiiiiight. 🙄 Just think of how much revenue for major oil companies would be lost if the technology came to fruition.
With an 80% efficient solar technology, we could drive cars that are fully electrical and completely solar powered. You'd think that this would be all over the news and everyone all over the world would be working on employing this technology. No more coal-fired power plants. Even China could make great use of this new technology.
Making laws that require more fuel efficient cars is not the right answer.
Originally posted by Bardock42
Lets make this a more general answer.It also applies to basically all topics
Indeed. I like the way you think. 👆
edit- Thinking about it more...I would have worded it "making new laws that restrict more rights is not the answer"...that would be more on topic...but your good point still stands.
My green method of transport