New technology will save the environment...
Yeah right. Yesterday road congestion was the topic of a (BBC) Radio Five phone-in. One guy called in and said that the environment would be alright, because in ten or twenty years' time everyone would be driving hydrogen-fueled cars. And the only emission from hydrogen cells is water vapor. Well, if that's the average intelligence of the car driver then we are royally or presidentially (take your pick) fucked. Reminds me of that cartoon where a professor has chalked a long equation on a blackboard...
Yeah, and where does this miracle hydrogen come from, you dumbo? You can't just drive up to the sun and stick a fuel hose into it. Guess what hydrogen is made from? That's right! Water... And in order to get the energy out that fuels your car that lets you drive a mile up the road to drop your kids off to school because you're too lazy to walk, guess what? You will have to first put it in. Technically speaking, if you want to have an exothermic reaction, you will first need an endothermic one. Simply put, you can't get out what you don't first put in. Like that time you stuck your head up your behind.
And guess where that energy comes from to make hydrogen? No, not the fairies, guess again. Renewable? Mmmh, unlikely at the moment. Nuclear? Possibly... Fossil fuels? Far more likely. And because we have an additional step, we probably lose some efficiency, so final guess what? We end up with more emissions, not less.
Time to ask for your school fees back.
posted by Platypus Bill @ 10:00 pm
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New Technology may save USA, but will it be worth living in.
Texaco running out of Oil - invade Kuwait, Afghanistan & Iraq
EXXON running out of oil - invade the Falklands or Antartica
Japanese exports (vhs, dvds, cars) harming US - trade embargoes or war
Chinese exports (socks + indies) harming US - nuke China - anyway according to some humans are the real and biggest threat to the environment. Since China & India are the most densely populated (2/5 of the world population)they are the biggest polluter - and will become bigger polluters than US or the EU
People have more faith in money, technology and miracle 'silver bullet' wonder drugs than in any GOD.
So I guess surgery, technology and pharmacy are the gods of this era.
Technology will save the environment, just like nhs dentistry saves teeth >>>
do you know how many people wear dentures in the uk - and how many people have their teeth removed by butchers sorry surgeons + technolgy
Technology will save the environment just like Blair sorted out BSE, slaughtering and burning millions of cattle in the uk
Technology will save the environment and miracle drugs cure the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
Nice to hear at least Nature was doin her bit to clean up the environment when you were up in the Yorkshire Dales
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