Discussion
Would you power your car on methane from cow emissions?
I would. We were having a debate at work about this. I have a few suggestions of how in the future we could stop funding the governments of the world with tax on gasoline.
1) Build nuclear power stations everywhere to generate national grid electricity. All cars would then be electric and the energy to generate the electricity would not be petrochemical.
2) Supply and logistics chain and part manufacturing would be from other synthetic sources rather than petrochemical – use metal products and silicon as well as glue-based products.
3) Worldwide factories can be powered by nuclear energy and heated by natural gas harnessed from animal emissions. This means no need to transport the material to a gas tank – you just put a pipe in and pipe the gas out of a dung heap or garbage landfill site.
I would buy an electric car if I thought it would behave like a normal car, as in drive at normal road speed and only need charging every 400km. I am sure this is possible. The only reason we don’t do this now is because governments rely on taxing motorists for using fuel, and making all of us feel like bad people by lying to us that oil is a finite resource (which it is not!), and of course reliance on the OPEC countries who quite frankly I would like to see the demise of.
So, would you drive an electric car if it was any good ? and would you power the manufacturing industry on cow dung? And would you like to see a nuclear power infrastructure to provide the electricity?
If I had been asked 15 years ago if I would drive an electric car, I would have laughed from the driver seat of my XJ-S. Today however, I would certainly drive an electric car and probably enjoy it as well as being free forever from the OPEC world, the tax and the cost of fuel!
I would. We were having a debate at work about this. I have a few suggestions of how in the future we could stop funding the governments of the world with tax on gasoline.
1) Build nuclear power stations everywhere to generate national grid electricity. All cars would then be electric and the energy to generate the electricity would not be petrochemical.
2) Supply and logistics chain and part manufacturing would be from other synthetic sources rather than petrochemical – use metal products and silicon as well as glue-based products.
3) Worldwide factories can be powered by nuclear energy and heated by natural gas harnessed from animal emissions. This means no need to transport the material to a gas tank – you just put a pipe in and pipe the gas out of a dung heap or garbage landfill site.
I would buy an electric car if I thought it would behave like a normal car, as in drive at normal road speed and only need charging every 400km. I am sure this is possible. The only reason we don’t do this now is because governments rely on taxing motorists for using fuel, and making all of us feel like bad people by lying to us that oil is a finite resource (which it is not!), and of course reliance on the OPEC countries who quite frankly I would like to see the demise of.
So, would you drive an electric car if it was any good ? and would you power the manufacturing industry on cow dung? And would you like to see a nuclear power infrastructure to provide the electricity?
If I had been asked 15 years ago if I would drive an electric car, I would have laughed from the driver seat of my XJ-S. Today however, I would certainly drive an electric car and probably enjoy it as well as being free forever from the OPEC world, the tax and the cost of fuel!
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