Reply #16: Feasible isn't the word, it's inedvidable [View All]

[pauliedangerously]

My view is that we should be building solar power plants and aggressively working on developing improved battery technology.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. The automobile is at its peak right now. You have to understand that fossil fuels are stored solar energy, and it took millions of years for that energy to accumulate and turn into that sticky goo and odorless gas.

Energy independence has to be approached two ways: improved efficiencies and different power sources. Again, the main source is the sun. Hybrids are only going to buy us extra time to make the transition.

You know those hydrogen fuel cells they keep yakking about? Well, I hate to break it to you, but hydrogen is primarily produced by FOSSIL FUELS...NOT A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM.

They are working on ways to generate hydrogen from water, but that takes a lot of energy.

The future is in electricity produced by the sun's energy. Right now, I know of two methods: photovoltaics, which generate electricity directly and parabolic reflectors, which are used to generate steam and run turbine generators.

My vision of the future is more and more people generating their own power, not ALL of their own power, but a significant amount in order to ease the demand on the power grid.



I am convinced that the oil and auto industies has been deliberately stalling innovations in alternative energy so they can generate short term profits...these industries have peaked and the only way they will go now is down; there will be a few little waves along the way, but the long term trend from now on is DOWN. Look up M. King Hubbert if you don't believe it...you won't hear his name on FOX News until it's too late.