Privacy is effectively a 20th century concept like the steam engine

[puffdatchronic]

yeeeeeeeeeeeppp

 

[cannabineer]

I think the steam engine will stage a comeback once oil becomes scarce. cn

 

[Novicehomegrower]

back to simpler times hopefully living of the land instead of big corporations

 

[Doer]

I think the steam engine will stage a comeback once oil becomes scarce. cn

Ah, so. There are several approaches, that could kick butt over electric cars today.

http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2009/12/22/459629.html From the MIT Tech Preview. All fuels....including various green sticks and leaves after extraction of certain oils.


'Course, not yor granpappy's, neither. The British Stream Car. Looking to break the sound barrier.

 

[echelon1k1]

I think the steam engine will stage a comeback once oil becomes scarce. cn

Do you subscribe to peak oil?

 

[cannabineer]

Do you subscribe to peak oil?

Not with any passion. Cheap oil is a plainly limited resource however. I advocate saving it for the chemical manufacture industry, for which it is the nonpareil feedstock. cn

 

[abandonconflict]

I think the steam engine will stage a comeback once oil becomes scarce. cn

What will heat the water? Timber?

 

[cannabineer]

Nuclear. On a smaller local scale ... solar maybe. cn

 

[Dr Kynes]

What will heat the water? Timber?

Clean Coal.

 

[Dr Kynes]

Steam Power has been making a comeback for some time.

[video=youtube;0iRTB-FTMdk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iRTB-FTMdk[/video]

 

[abandonconflict]

I think we should make better use of dogs for transportation.

 

[OGEvilgenius]

Nuclear. On a smaller local scale ... solar maybe. cn

It takes more energy to grow the silicon for solar panels than they can recover. The nano versions, I'm not sure. Hemp is the actual answer.

 

[GreenSummit]

Clean Coal.

Clean coal is a lie. It does not exist. Try again please.

 

[GOD HERE]

It takes more energy to grow the silicon for solar panels than they can recover. The nano versions, I'm not sure. Hemp is the actual answer.

Plugging my phone into hemp has worked great.

 

[abandonconflict]

Hemp is clean coal?

 

[Dr Kynes]

Clean coal is a lie. It does not exist. Try again please.

 

[Total Head]

i'm not sure i understand the message of the op. are you saying that if i cling to and embrace my privacy i'm some kind of contemporary luddite?

 

[beardo]

It takes more energy to grow the silicon for solar panels than they can recover. The nano versions, I'm not sure. Hemp is the actual answer.

who grows silicon?

 

[cannabineer]

who grows silicon?

The monocrystals for semiconductors are grown. The process is named Czochralski in recognition of Jan C., the Polish scientist who pioneered it. cn

 

[cannabineer]

It takes more energy to grow the silicon for solar panels than they can recover. The nano versions, I'm not sure. Hemp is the actual answer.

Solar panels today reflect the energy subsidy of cheap fossil fuel. But, hemp? How to power transport using it ... trains, ships, aircraft? There are better oil crops, and even those are not so good. cn