--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that it is inevitable that everyone will have to live > off the grid with some minimal use of machines, but limited > usage of machines and very low-impact environmentally. > Otherwise Earth will throw us off. I am aiming to live off the > grid quite soon. But I will keep my car, which is a drug to us. > Hopefully cars will be non-polluting and non oil based one day.
IMO, a good start would be to extract ourselves from addiction to foreign oil, and one potential technology is thermal depolymerization, which can take any carbonaceous feedstock (agricultural waste, animal guts, sewage, trash, etc.) and turn it into oil and other byproducts. The benefit of such technology is that it would use the existing fuels infrastructure (as opposed to hydrogen, which will require both generation and distribution infrastructures be built from the ground up). Although it is still a carbon based fuel, at least it doesn't release any more fossil carbon. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization http://www.changingworldtech.com/ Alex To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
