Reply #19: Is this not what I have been saying? My mantra? [View All]

[Gregorian]

Somebody pinch me, I can't believe I'm reading this.

Can we not see the forest for the trees? We were given eyes for this kind of thing. But this goes beyond the simple physics of making a car move. There is much more to our energy situation.

I'm afraid I can't do this justice right now. I've written and deleted several complete posts in an attempt to say something meaningful.

Simply put, we are where we are due to how we live, and how many are living it. And both halves of that equation are increasing each moment.

Even if we had free energy to run cars with, there is still so much that is needed for all billions of us to survive. I'm thinking beyond the scope of the automobile. But to stay in that subject, we would still need tires, bearings, copper for motors, batteries, glass, roads, shipping of all of the parts. No matter what kind of car, it takes nearly 10% of the energy it uses in it's lifetime just to manufacture it.

We're living outside of the equilibrium of nature.

I don't know how to make others see what I have seen. Maybe one must be raised. Maybe it's a strong sense of aesthetics being pummeled into oblivion. And maybe it's just observation combined with several thermodynamics courses.

There is one thing I find at the central core of this discussion. Modern living is violent.