Yeah, but relying on the same old drivetrain and changing only the fuel isn't going to help anything either. At least with hybrids, they're rethinking the ways things work and experimenting with making things more efficient so that fuel cells or even solar might be a possibility in the future.
It's status quo to use biodiesel. Peanut oil is the original biodiesel and it was used over 100 years ago. On May 21, 2008, at 8:13 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: >> Ian wrote: >> Why would >> new car, engine, battery and power delivery knowledge be a dead end >> just >> because it was developed for gas-electric hybrid vehicles. > > Because the core problem is the absence of a renewable energy source. > > All of the design (lights, computers, testing, etc) is using that > non-renewable energy and the only impact is to slow consumption out of > proportion to reality; which diminishes the perception of a need for > root-cause solution. > > Hybrids only treat symptoms (that can be useful because it lowers your > daily gas bill!) but if we want to lower our life's energy bill we'd > invest in a solution rather than a short-term palliative. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:260512 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
