From: William (williamweb@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 10:55:52 MDT
See below Samantha's comment:
> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 23:31:46 EDT
> From: Spudboy100@aol.com
> Subject: Re: STATE-OF-THE-WORLD: It makes you want to cry
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> samantha voiced:
> <<We are stating something that
> is too often and too conveniently ignored. How will the public
> wake up any way except by enough people pointing things out that
> they can't ignore them?
>
> We have technically feasible alternatives right now for lowering
> many of our emissions of greenhouse gases. It would cost
> money to retool to use them to be sure. But the consequences
> are serious enough that I believe it is time we paid these
> costs. If the costs are too high then we invent better ways to
> satisfy the need without risking as much of our very future as
> we are now by doing nothing. Ignoring it will not make it go away.
>
> - - samantha>>
>
> My answer is we're screwed. That technology as a feature of human dynamics
> grinds too slow. That we will have to have a wake-up call from mother
nature,
> or another oil boycott before what I term, White Christian America, rises
up
> to make things happen. This my opinion, however flawed it is; and I do
> suspect it is. Normal people, apparently, are pretty unconcerned with the
> future. None the less, when the new technology gets implemented, it won't
be
> fantasy science, but the real McCoy.
>
To Samantha and anyone else that may be interested:
In the short term, hybrid gasoline-electric cars already are available now
in the
United States from several automobile makers. The gasoline is used to start
and
stop the car and for acceleration up to 40-50 miles per hour. The rest of
the
time the car uses electricity generated by the movement of the car.
Within 10-15 years, the automobile makers plan to introduce fuel cell
technology.
This technology used liquid Hydrogen inside a cell that migrates across the
cell
causing a proton gradients across the cell and electron transport (i.e.
electricity)
around the cell. It works very much like the mitochondria in every cell of
the
humans' (and other animals') bodies
Shortly after 9-11-01, a great deal of US Federal research money was
contributed to the above causes. We educated US Americans realize that we
get 70% of our oil from Saudi Arabia and that 17 of the 19 hijackers had
Saudi
Arabian passports. We are trying to literally fuel our economy in a way
that
does not finance terrorism against US. Though the motives are not
ecological,
the results will improve any alleged "global warming' that may be
occurring. - Bill.
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