Greetings,
As usual the crude oil prices are affecting all of us. I was thinking maybe it's about time we could use alternative means of fuel rather than gas fuel. Hopefully, cheaper as well but, the alternatives i'm about to writeup isn't cheap. Here goes...
* Water - Abundant alternative energy source. Down side electrolysis process is, i believe, too expensive. Most of the Oil companies will go after you since this technology will ruin their business. Here's one website -->>
http://www.jimloy.com/pseudo/car-h2o.htm* Sun - Fairly abundant. Down side you'll need a BIG battery to store those solar energy. Although hybid cars are STILL in the works and also too expensive. The other downside is acid waste dumps from old and used batteries will just ruin our environment.
* Electric - Endless cycle of energy converting from another form of energy. It'll just complicates things for your car. I'm not sure about the railroad industry, that's faster but flying is still safer, I believe.
* Wind - Hehe! Unless you live in a hurricane alley. Not likely. I seen to recall a Disney Flick that had barque ships with wheels running of endless green fields. Fantasy, really.
* Magnetism - If we can only find a way to levitate a piece of steel without submerging it in -700 degree F liquid nitrogen?? or counter the gravity on earth, without leaving the earth's orbit, we might be riding in to the spaceage of jetsons. Still to expensive.
* Lasers - I've seen one on the discovery channel once about a saucer disc that 'float' using pulse of laser. Very very expensive to build personal pulse lasters. If such a thing happens, we could be into the buck roger's era.
* Nuke - Too dangerous. Think of the radiation suit fashion industry would take advantage of this. Many riots too from demonstrations and all those anti-nuke issues...
Overall, we're still dependent on middle east oil, which is slowly depleting fast. Unless the energy crisis is resolve, we could endup, more likely, the MADMAX era. Part 1: Fighting for a drop of fuel. Part 2: Fighting for water. Part 3: Fighting just to survive.
Back to stoneage.. :-(
Regards,
Gizz
